“Since early on, almost every step of the way, Merwin has shown himself to be wrestling with his aesthetic ideas and ideals, striving toward simplicity, though held in check by a showy desire to make complicated transformations happen, to…
“If you haven’t read Leonard’s work from the ’70s, you have no idea how much fun you’re going to have.”—Alex Belth, The Daily Beast
From the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, four classic novels of subtle psychological horror.
Thomas Mallon and Library of America invite readers to rediscover the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels of a classic American writer on the 150th anniversary of his birth
“This hefty collection of all [Crane’s] verse, all the published prose, and much of [his] correspondence … instantly becomes the standard edition.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“With the deft mastery we have come to expect from him, Harold Holzer compiles a vivid, riveting, and at times profoundly moving narrative of the immediate reaction to perhaps the greatest cataclysm in American history, and of the sudden and…
“The composer Virgil Thomson was just about the most lively and astute music critic America produced in the 20th century.”—Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times ——— “The Library of America has just given us the world’s…
“These two volumes constitute all that matter, the works of a master of his craft, with all the author’s introductions, notes, and pertinent essays.”—The Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Among the abundant charms of the anthology are the many instances in which someone from another time describes the Paris we seem to already know. . . . Gopnik, New Yorker staff writer and author of Paris to the Moon,…