“The richness of this volume alone justifies Stein’s recognition, at last, as a ‘classic’ of American literature.”— The Boston Globe
“At last—at last!—The Library of America brings out the first in a pair of volumes devoted to the writings of the New Yorker editor who in his spare time produced some of America’s most lyrical and poignant…
“The most important collection of crime fiction ever published in the United States.”—Ed Gorman
“The indispensable Library of America, the most useful publishing venture in American letters, has produced an edition of Niebuhr’s major works, annotated by Niebuhr’s daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, a highly regarded editor and publisher. It…
“There is hardly an American writer alive whose motives are so pure and whose fiction rings so consistently with the sounds of real and felt life.” — Columbus Dispatch
“ I know no writer of English whose command of the rich vocabulary of sensuous impressions approaches Amy Lowell’s. The almost physical impact of it startles one each time one turns her pages.”—John Livingston Lowes, Saturday Review of…
“Richard Sieburth’s huge edition of Pound’s Poems and Translations for The Library of America devotes many pages to the young man ‘out of key with his time.’ … The first edition of Pound’s…
“Audubon’s word-work has been collected elsewhere and expensively, but this volume is the best value yet…. I am filled with a huge gratitude that The Library of America has chosen to include the writings of the man who…