“It Uncle Tom’s Cabin has rightly been called “the most influential work of fiction in American history.” — Fayetteville Observer-Times
“The Library of America’s Travels and Other Writings is a welcome and exemplary addition to their series…. No previous reprint has included generous examples of Bartram’s illustrations or the concise digest…
“The Library of America has canonized James Agee—poet, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and critic—whom his friend Dwight Macdonald pronounced ‘the most copiously talented writer of my generation.” — The Atlantic…
“Page after page, Sontag enlightens with her provocative insights and delights with her compelling prose. These pieces at once evoke their era and prove to be timeless.”—A. Scott Berg, Los Angeles Times
“Wilbur makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one.”—John Simon
“A better playwright than Molière does not exist, and a better translation of a great writer’s plays does not exist.”—Adam…
An unprecedented single-volume edition of one of America’s greatest poets, released to celebrate his bicentennial
“Who, could possibly make another selection [of Walt Whitman] seem fresh? Who is definitely Harold Bloom, dean of American literary critics, who considers Whitman ‘the principal writer that America—North, Central, or South—has brought to…
“The Library of America has now followed its initial Wharton collection, containing the major novels, with a second one devoted to her shorter fiction and autobiographical writings. . . . Edith Wharton’s triumph as an artist is…
Library of America launches its definitive multi-volume edition of John Updike’s novels with the four early works that signaled the arrival of one of the most gifted young novelists of the 1960s.
“Skillfully introduced and selected by Lauren Groff, this excellent collection of 25 short stories by Hale reintroduces an overlooked master of the genre. Hale explores the borderland between inner truth and outer obligation, otherness and…