“Mark Twain helped to devise the personal style of American travel writing. Dry guidebook facts were not for him. He could not help turning everything he saw into literature when he trained his keen eye on foreign people and places. No…
“Frederick Law Olmsted can fairly be said to have had as much impact on how we experience the natural world as the creators of the great national parks.”—Bill McKibben
“She is one of the great storytellers of the world.” — Los Angeles Times
A definitive edition of three masterworks by the Pulitzer Prize–winning naturalist.Thirty-two pages of photographs and numerous illustrations throughout.
The Library of America’s landmark Saul Bellow Edition continues with a collection of three mid-career masterpieces.
“Wendell Berry gives us an intimate portrayal of the mind and heart of rural America. His graceful prose is truthful and eloquent. His tone is reliable and steady, like a good rain, sober and serious—all this and at times he is so funny you…
“Surely if one were to write perfectly, one would write like Thoreau.” — Washington Post Book World
“There are minds, argued James, and there is the world; psychology is the study of the interaction between them. Speculation about the deeper meaning of our thoughts belongs to metaphysics.” — Newsday
“These novels sneakily inaugurate modernism in English.” — Atlantic Monthly