Moving from Wisconsin to Kansas to Minnesota, the story of the Ingalls family relates an entire epoch in the settling of America.
“Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, in their emotional intensity, are the most intimate and lyrical of his novels.” — New York Review of Books
“Few novelists writing in English have been able to create satire with quite so fine and sure a touch as Dawn Powell.”— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Library of America presents a modern classic, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about one woman’s irrepressible spirit in the face of life’s hardships.
“The Library of America in its reissue of American literary classics…has been the most satisfying (and, I suspect, the most lasting) publishing event of my lifetime. The two volumes of Lincoln’s complete writings, superbly…
John Steinbeck “was a born storyteller of vividly interesting tales. His capacity to bring alive realistic scenes and authentic speech was really quite exceptional.” — The New Criterion