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Tuesday, May 03, 2022

James Hogg: Confessions of a Justified Sinner



Andrew Currie: Monument to James Hogg (St. Mary's Loch)


While I was living in Edinburgh in the late 1980s, a friend of mine, Martin Frost, and I were in the habit of driving madly around the countryside of Scotland in his tiny Mini in search of cups of coffee and chocolate cake - perhaps also in a vain attempt to evade the inevitable consequences of continued inattention to our studies ... "An element of pleasure-seeking there," as a cousin of mine, Roddie Macleod, remarked of a neighbouring farmer who'd been in the habit of going into Dundee from time to time to disport himself. If such a thing is possible in Dundee, that is.

On one of these expeditions, we happened upon St. Mary's Loch, and found the statue above, dedicated to the famed Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg, but memorable mainly for the inscription on its base, the rather extravagant encomium:
He taught the wandering winds to sing
Since then I've discovered that that is the last line of his book-length poem The Queen’s Wake (1813), so perhaps it wasn't quite so vainglorious as I imagined.



I'm not sure if I'd read his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner at the time. If not, it must have been shortly afterwards, because I remember that it had an electrifying effect on me. Why had I never heard of this novel before? It was every bit the equal of - possibly even better than - Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and the sheer intensity and strangeness of the writing would be hard to match outside the works of De Quincey or even Edgar Allan Poe.

It does, in fact, bear a certain resemblance to such doppelgänger stories as Poe's "William Wilson" (1839) or Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853), though of course it long preceded them. The title may owe something to De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821), but they have little else in common.



In 1947, in his introduction to a new edition of the complete, uncensored text of Hogg's novel, the Nobel prize winner for that year, André Gide, confessed that he had read 'this astounding book ... with a stupefaction and admiration that increased at every page'. So, just as in the case of Poe, it was largely the admiration of the French (Baudelaire and Mallarmé for Poe; Gide for Hogg) that first plucked these great writers from provincial obscurity and brought their work to the attention of readers everywhere.

As you can see in the bibliography below, the pruned and bowdlerised versions of Victorian editors have been succeeded by a complete, textually rigorous edition of James Hogg's Collected Works. Whatever form you read it in, though, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner is every bit as important a text in the Fantastic tradition as Potocki's Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1805-15) or Schiller's Ghost-Seer (1787-1789). Indeed, it rivals Frankenstein itself.


James Hogg: The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd (vol. 1 of 2: 1865)


It was therefore with a great deal of excitement that I came across a copy of The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd in Devonport the other day. Admittedly, it was in an edition "Revised at the Instance of the Author's Family, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson," which hardly inspires one with confidence in its textual integrity, but even this atmosphere of pious disdain for Hogg's "crudities" has its points of interest.

Hogg's reputation had suffered greatly from the caricatured version of him presented, under the name "the Ettrick Shepherd", in Noctes Ambrosianae, a popular series of feigned conversations which appeared in Blackwoods Magazine between 1822 and 1835. The Shepherd, a Scots-spouting buffoon, is generally upstaged by the more urbane "Christopher North" (Professor John Wilson - himself the author of most of the dialogues) and his friends "Timothy Tickler" (Robert Sym) and - occasionally - "The English Opium Eater" (Thomas De Quincey).

Hogg, who had little part in the concoction of most of these pieces, made no public comment on the matter. However (according to Wikipedia, at any rate) "some of his letters to Blackwood and others express outrage and anguish." Certainly this picture of him as "a part-animal, part-rural simpleton, and part-savant" coloured his reputation throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

A chance remark by Hogg to Wordsworth describing the two of them as fellow bards was greeted with some disdain by the English poet. His 1835 "Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg" includes the following stanza:
The mighty Minstrel breathes no longer,
'Mid mouldering ruins low he lies;
And death upon the braes of Yarrow,
Has closed the Shepherd-poet's eyes.
However, the first two of these lines probably refer to Sir Walter Scott. Wordsworth's own notes on the poem say of Hogg: "He was undoubtedly a man of original genius, but of coarse manners and low and offensive opinions."


James Hogg: A Queer Book (2007)


All this patronising nonsense about his having somehow been a genius in spite of himself has hopefully now been laid to rest. Hogg is increasingly seen as a pillar of Scottish literature, in the tradition of Burns, Scott and Stevenson, as well as a profound influence on writers as diverse as George Douglas Brown, Alasdair Gray and Irvine Welsh.



For myself, I think that it was partly the fact that I was living right in the middle of the place where his novel is set which lent the book such an extraordinary atmosphere for me. I boarded in a Hall of Residence sited directly below Arthur's Seat, and sat on the edge of Salisbury crags reading Baudelaire on more than one occasion.



The scene in Hogg's novel where the narrator sees the approach of an extraordinary apparition (which turns out to be a version of the famous Brocken spectre) was therefore located right on my front doorstep.


Thomas Keith: The Grassmarket, Edinburgh (c.1850)


Nor has the rest of the city changed much since the nineteenth century. There's still the Old Town running down the Royal Mile from the Castle to Holyrood Abbey; the 18th-century New Town, with its Palladian squares and crescents, off to one side of it; and then all the Victorian infill housing shading off to the South. Such landmarks as the Cowgate and the Grassmarket remain pretty much as they were in Hogg's time.

It's strange for someone from the Antipodes to reside in so changeless a place, with the ghosts walking around right in front of you rather than drowned in a sea of new construction. Not restful, exactly, but somehow very satisfying to anyone with a strong sense of tradition.

If you've never read his novel, I envy you your first experience of it. Make sure that you choose the right text, though. The older editions of Hogg are quite unreliable. What you want is one based on the 1824 version - as most of them now fortunately are. It's not a case like Frankenstein where both texts, the 1818 one and Mary Shelley's 1831 revision, have their own points of interest. There's little evidence that Hogg had much - if anything - to do with the posthumous 1837 reprint of his novel, and (as Wikipedia puts it) "the extensive bowdlerization and theological censorship in particular suggest publisher's timidity."


James Hogg: The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd (c.1874)







Sir John Watson Gordon: James Hogg, The Ettrick Shepherd (1830)

James Hogg
(1770-1835)

    Works:

  1. The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd: Centenary Edition. Revised at the Instance of the Author's Family, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson. 2 vols. 1865. With Many Illustrative Engravings. London, Edinburgh & Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1878.
    1. Tales and Sketches
    2. Poems and Ballads: With a Memoir of the Author

  2. The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Series Editors: Ian Duncan & Suzanne Gilbert. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995-2021.
    1. The Mountain Bard. 1807. Ed. Suzanne Gilbert (2007)
    2. The Forest Minstrel. 1810. Ed. P. D. Garside & Richard D. Jackson (2006)
    3. The Spy: A Periodical Paper of Literary Amusement and Instruction. 1810-11. Ed. Gillian Hughes (2000)
    4. The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Poem. 1813. Ed. Douglas S. Mack (2004)
    5. Mador of the Moor. 1816. Ed. James E. Barcus (2005)
    6. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland, Vol. 1: First Series. 1819. Ed. Murray G. H. Pittock (2002)
    7. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland, Vol. 2: Second Series. 1821. Ed. Murray G. H. Pittock (2003)
    8. Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland. 1820. Ed. Ian Duncan (2002)
    9. Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems. 1822. Ed. J. H. Rubenstein, Gillian Hughes & Meiko O'Halloran (2008)
    10. The Three Perils of Man: or War, Women, and Witchcraft: A Border Romance. 1822. Ed. Judy King and Graham Tulloch (2012)
    11. The Bush aboon Traquair and The Royal Jubilee. 1822. Ed. Douglas S. Mack (2008)
    12. The Three Perils of Woman: or; Love, Leasing, and Jealousy: a series of Domestic Scottish Tales. 1823. Eds David Groves, Antony Hasler, & Douglas S. Mack (1995)
      • The Three Perils of Woman, or Love, Leasing, and Jealousy: a Series of Domestic Scottish Tales. 1823. Ed. David Groves, Antony Hasler, & Douglas S. Mack. The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.
    13. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself; With a Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts and Other Evidence by the Editor. 1824. Ed. P. D. Garside (2001)
      • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Written by Himself: With a Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts and Other Evidence by the Editor. 1824. Ed. P. D. Garside. Afterword by Ian Campbell. Chronology by Gillian Hughes. The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. 2001. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
    14. Queen Hynde. 1824. Ed. Suzanne Gilbert & Douglas S. Mack (1998)
    15. The Shepherd's Calendar. 1829. Ed. Douglas S. Mack (1995)
    16. Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd. 1831. Ed. Kirsteen McCue & Janette Currie (2014)
    17. A Queer Book. 1832. Ed. P. D. Garside (1995)
    18. Altrive Tales, Featuring a ‘Memoir of the Author’s Life’. 1832. Ed. Gillian Hughes (2003)
    19. A Series of Lay Sermons: on Good Principles and Good Breeding. 1834. Ed. Gillian Hughes (1997)
    20. Anecdotes of Scott. 1834. Ed. Jill Rubenstein (1999)
    21. Tales of the Wars of Montrose. 1835. Ed. Gillian Hughes (1996)
    22. Highland Journeys. 1802-4. Ed. by H. B. de Groot (2010)
    23. Contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 1: 1817–1828. Ed. Thomas C. Richardson (2008)
    24. Contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 2: 1829–1835. Ed. Thomas C. Richardson (2012)
    25. Contributions to English, Irish and American Periodicals. Ed. Adrian Hunter & Barbara Leonardi (2020)
    26. Contributions to Scottish Periodicals. Ed. Graham Tulloch & Judy King (2021)
    27. Contributions to Annuals and Gift-Books. Ed. Janette Currie, Gillian Hughes (2006)
    28. Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs. Ed. Kirsteen McCue (2015)
    29. The Collected Letters of James Hogg, Vol. 1: 1800–1819. Ed. Gillian Hughes (2004)
    30. The Collected Letters of James Hogg, Vol. 2: 1820–1831. Ed. Gillian Hughes (2006)
    31. The Collected Letters of James Hogg, Vol. 3: 1832–1835. Ed. Gillian Hughes (2008)



  3. Novels:

  4. The Three Perils of Man: War, Women and Witchcraft. 1823. Ed. Douglas Gifford. 1972. The Scottish Classics Series, 9. Ed. David S. Robb. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, in association with The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1989.

  5. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Written by Himself: With a Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts and Other Evidence by the Editor. 1824. Ed. John Carey. Oxford English Novels. 1969. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.

  6. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, with 'Marion's Jock' and 'John Gray o' Middleholm'. 1824, 1832 & 1820. Ed. Karl Miller. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2006.



  7. Karl Miller: Electric Shepherd (2003)


    Secondary:

  8. Miller, Karl. Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg. London: Faber, 2003.


James Hogg: The Suicide's Grave (1895)


Friday, May 31, 2019

James Thin & the Library of America



James Thin Bookshop (Edinburgh, 1848-2002)


I first encountered the delights of James Thin's signature Bookshop on Edinburgh's South Bridge in 1981, five years before I went to study there. My father wanted to revisit his Scottish roots and do a bit of a European tour as well, and my sister and I decided to accompany my parents. My elder brothers, anticipating trouble, elected to stay at home. In some ways they may have made the right choice.

Despite the many perplexities associated with still travelling with one's family at the age of 18, I have to count one of indisputable triumphs of the trip a day spent wandering around Edinburgh. It was (and is) visually spectacular. But more than that, it seemed to make sense to me as a city, unlike such tangles of motorised mayhem as Rome or Paris - let alone London.

Strangely enough, the main thing I wanted to do there was to locate a copy of Ossian.



James Macpherson: The Works of Ossian (1765)


Why? you may ask. It's hard to say. I guess because I'd read so many allusions to it, without ever being able to locate a copy. It was (allegedly) Napoleon's favourite book, and there was a time when James Macpherson was one of the best-known and most successful authors in Europe.

In any case, I wanted to check it out for myself, and everyone had told me that this was the place to go.



Now things are different. Now there are many editions available, including the one below. But we live in an age when virtually anything in print is available through Amazon.com and other sites. That was not the case in 1981.



James Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian (1995)


  • Macpherson, James. Poems of Ossian: A Facsimile of the 1805 Edition. Introduction by John MacQueen. 2 vols. Edinburgh: James Thin / The Mercat Press, 1971.

  • Macpherson, James. The Poems of Ossian, with Dissertations on the Era and Poems of Ossian; and Dr. Blair’s Critical Dissertation. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1894.

  • Macpherson, James. The Poems of Ossian. Ed. William Sharp. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926.

  • Macpherson, James. The Poems of Ossian, and Related Works. Ed. Howard Gaskill. Introduction by Fiona Stafford. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.

The first in the list above was the one I bought that day. It was not an easy task. I asked, first, at the front desk, was directed down to the basement, then up to the top floor, then down to the basement again. One volume was finally located up above, the other on another floor, but nevertheless I walked out with an odd facsimile edition of the 1805 text clasped tight in my hot little hands!

Yet this inefficiency did not put me off the place. I'd already had a chance on this trip to check out the exciting deeps of Foyle's Bookshop in London, but there was something in the light airiness of Edinburgh which seemed to me just right. I wanted to live there.

And so, in due course, I did. I went back in 1986 to study for my Doctorate in the English Department of the University of Edinburgh. And many things happened. I did, eventually, get my thesis written - an agonising experience which has stood me in good stead ever since when sympathising with others caught in the same trap.



I spent many long hours in the city's libraries: the University Library most of all, I suppose, but also the weirdly arranged City Library, and - best of all - the National Library of Scotland (the former Advocate's Library), a copyright library with access to satellite repositories of books all over the city ...

And, of course, I found my way back to James Thin - as well as all the other bookshops, new and second-hand, in that city of books. But it was in James Thin that I first made acquaintance with the Library of America. It wasn't strictly relevant to my studies, I suppose. I was working on South America not North America (don't ask why a New Zealander should choose to go to Scotland in order to study books about South America - all I can say is that it seemed to make some precarious sense at the time, though less and less in retrospect).

The first volumes in the series were published in 1982, and Thin's must have ordered in a huge number of them, because when I arrived in the mid-1980s, they had a whole wall of them on sale for some small amount. Was it five pounds each? Something like that. Of course I wanted them all, but I tried to make judicious choices of the most indipensable classics: a complete Hawthorne in two volumes, a complete Poe in ditto, the two volumes of Melville then available, Parkman, Whitman, Stephen Crane ...



I've been collecting them ever since. Thirty years on, I'm about to complete the set of Melville I started to assemble that day. Bibliomania is a long-drawn-out disease, which takes you to some pretty odd places. But there's a magic to American books which continues to obsess me.

They're now scattered in different places throughout the house, though. I used to have them all together in one long sequence till a friend told me he thought it looked pretentious. I suppose they do have the air of display books, rather than ones which one is in the habit of reading regularly, but actually nothing could be further from the truth. I read them all the time, and have found them ideal to take on long trips where one needs the assurance of lots of pages in one convenient compass.

Since those early days in Edinburgh, mind you, the series has branched out in many ways. It now includes SF writers such as Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin and Kurt Vonnegut - H. P. Lovecraft is there, as well as many canonical twentieth century poets: Ashbery, Bishop, Merwin, Pound, and Stevens.



Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)


I think it's safe to say that Edmund Wilson's dream of a compendious series of American classics has now thoroughly vindicated itself. His works, too, have finally made the cut. It will continue to serve as a gateway rather than a full stop to the literature of the Americas, but it's hard to imagine its ever being superseded as a series. And, given the severely reduced nature of the critical apparatus in each book, it doesn't need to be re-edited every few decades, unlike its model, the frighteningly comprehensive French Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.

Here's a list of the 85 volumes in the now more than 300-strong series I myself have collected so far. it's arranged under authors, but - further down - I've included another chronological, last-to-first list, with pictures as well as links to each book.





Making Book (2014)

The Library of America
(1979-2023)
(listed alphabetically by authors):


    Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)

  1. Adams, Henry. Novels / Mont Saint Michel / The Education. Democracy: An American Novel; Esther: A Novel; Mont Saint Michel and Chartres; the Education of Henry Adams; Poems. 1880, 1884, 1904, 1918. Ed. Earl N. Harbert. The Library of America, 14. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983.

  2. Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809. 1889-91. Ed. Earl N. Harbert. The Library of America, 31. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1986.

  3. Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison, 1809-1817. 1889-91. Ed. Earl N. Harbert. The Library of America, 32. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1986.


  4. American Poetry (19th & 20th Century)

  5. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 1: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman. Ed. John Hollander. The Library of America, 66. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1993.


  6. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)

  7. Anderson, Sherwood. Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories. Ed. Charles Baxter. The Library of America, 235. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2012.


  8. John Ashbery (1927-2017)

  9. Ashbery, John. Collected Poems: 1956-1987. Ed. Mark Ford. The Library of America, 187. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2008.

  10. Ashbery, John. Collected Poems: 1991-2000. Ed. Mark Ford. The Library of America, 301. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2017.


  11. Jean-Jacques Rabin [John James Audubon] (1785-1851)

  12. Audubon, John James. Writings and Drawings. Ed. Christoph Irmscher. The Library of America, 113. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1999.


  13. James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987)

  14. Baldwin, James. Collected Essays. Ed. Toni Morrison. The Library of America, 98. [‘Notes of a Native Son’, 1955; ‘Nobody Knows My Name,’ 1961; ‘The Fire Next Time’, 1963; ‘No Name in the Street’, 1972; ‘The Devil Finds Work’, 1976]. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1998.

  15. Baldwin, James. Early Novels & Stories. Ed. Toni Morrison. The Library of America, 97. [‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’, 1953; ‘Giovanni's Room’, 1956; ‘Another Country’, 1962; ‘Going to Meet the Man’, 1965]. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1998.

  16. Baldwin, James. Later Novels. Ed. Darrell Pinckney. The Library of America, 98. [‘Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone’, 1968; ‘If Beale Street Could Talk', 1974; ‘Just Above My Head’, 1979]. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2015.


  17. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

  18. Bishop, Elizabeth. Poems, Prose and Letters. Ed. Robert Giroux & Lloyd Schwartz. The Library of America, 180. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2008.


  19. Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012)

  20. Bradbury, Ray. Novels & Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller. The Library of America, 347. [‘The Martian Chronicles’, 1950; ‘Fahrenheit 451’, 1953; ‘Dandelion Wine’, 1957; ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’, 1962]. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2021.

  21. Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man, The October Country & Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller. The Library of America, 360. 1951, 1955. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2022.


  22. Joe Brainard (1942-1994)

  23. The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard. Ed. Ron Padgett. Introduction by Paul Auster. A Special Publication of The Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2013.


  24. Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964)

  25. Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment. Ed. Sandra Steingraber. The Library of America, 307. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2018.


  26. Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (1938-1988)

  27. Carver, Raymond. Collected Stories. Ed. William L. Stull & Maureen P. Carroll. The Library of America, 195. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.


  28. John William Cheever (1912-1982)

  29. Cheever, John. Collected Stories and Other Writings. 1943, 1978. Ed. Blake Bailey. The Library of America, 188. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.

  30. Cheever, John. Complete Novels: The Wapshot Chronicle / The Wapshot Scandal / Bullet Park / Falconer / Oh What a Paradise It Seems. 1957, 1964, 1969, 1977, 1982. Ed. Blake Bailey. The Library of America, 189. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.


  31. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

  32. Cooper, James Fenimore. The Leatherstocking Tales, vol. 1. Ed. Blake Nevius. The Library of America, 26. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1985.

  33. Cooper, James Fenimore. The Leatherstocking Tales, vol. 2. Ed. Blake Nevius. The Library of America, 27. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1985.


  34. Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932)

  35. Crane, Hart. Complete Poems and Selected Letters. Ed. Langdon Hammer. The Library of America, 168. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2006.


  36. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

  37. Crane, Stephen. Prose and Poetry: Maggie: a Girl of the Streets; The Red Badge of Courage; Stories, Sketches, and Journalism; Poetry. Ed. J. C. Levenson. The Library of America, 18. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984.


  38. Philip Kindred Dick (1928-1982)

  39. Dick, Philip K. Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik. 1962, 1964, 1968, 1969. Ed. Jonathan Lethem. The Library of America, 173. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2007.

  40. Dick, Philip K. Five Novels of the 1960s and 1970s: Martian Time Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly. 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1977. Ed. Jonathan Lethem. The Library of America, 183. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2008.

  41. Dick, Philip K. VALIS and Later Novels: A Maze of Death / VALIS / The Divine Invasion / The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. 1970, 1981, 1981, 1982. Ed. Jonathan Lethem. The Library of America, 193. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.


  42. John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896-1970)

  43. Dos Passos, John. U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / Nineteen Nineteen / The Big Money. Ed. Daniel Aaron & Townsend Ludington. The Library of America, 85. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1996.


  44. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)

  45. DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. 1903. Ed. Nathan Huggins, 1986. Introduction by John Edgar Wideman. New York: Vintage Books / The Library of America, 1990.


  46. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

  47. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Collected Poems and Translations. Ed. Harold Bloom and Paul Kane. The Library of America, 70. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1994.


  48. William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962)

  49. Faulkner, William. Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers’ Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust (Sartoris) / The Sound and the Fury. 1926, 1927, 1929 & 1929. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 164. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2006.

  50. Faulkner, William. Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying / Sanctuary / Light in August / Pylon. 1930, 1931, 1932 & 1935. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 25. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1985.

  51. Faulkner, William. Novels 1936-1940: Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms) / The Hamlet. 1936, 1938, 1939 & 1940. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 48. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1990.

  52. Faulkner, William. Novels 1942-1954: Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable. 1942, 1948, 1951 & 1954. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 73. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1994.

  53. Faulkner, William. Novels 1957-1962: The Town / The Mansion / The Reivers. 1957, 1959 & 1962. Ed. Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk. The Library of America, 112. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1999.


  54. Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963)

  55. Frost, Robert. Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays: Complete Poems 1949; In the Clearing; Uncollected Poems; Plays; Lectures, Essays, Stories, and Letters. Ed. Richard Poirier & Mark Richardson. The Library of America, 81. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1995.


  56. Hiram Ulysses [Ulysses S.] Grant (1822-1885)

  57. Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters. Ed. Mary Drake McFeeley & William S. McFeeley. The Library of America, 50. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1990.


  58. Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)

  59. Hammett, Dashiell. Complete Novels: Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon; The Glass Key; The Thin Man. 1929, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934. Ed. Steven Marcus. The Library of America, 110. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1999.

  60. Hammett, Dashiell. Crime Stories and Other Writings. Ed. Steven Marcus. The Library of America, 125. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2001.


  61. Harlem Renaissance Novels (1920s & 1930s)

  62. Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s. ['Cane', by Jean Toomer (1923); 'Home to Harlem', Claude McKay (1928); 'Quicksand', Nella Larsen (1928); 'Plum Bun', Jessie Redmon Fauset (1928); 'The Blacker the Berry', Wallace Thurman (1929)]. Ed. Rafia Zafar. The Library of America, 217. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2011.

  63. Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s. ['Not Without Laughter', Langston Hughes (1931); 'Black No More', George Schuyler (1931); 'The Conjure-Man Dies', Rudolph Fisher (1932); 'Black Thunder', Arna Bontemps (1936)]. Ed. Rafia Zafar. The Library of America, 218. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2011.


  64. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

  65. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Tales and Sketches. Ed. Roy Harvey Pearce. The Library of America, 2. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1982.

  66. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Collected Novels: Fanshawe; The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables; The Blithedale Romance; The Marble Faun. Ed. Millicent Bell. The Library of America, 10. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984.


  67. William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

  68. Howells, William Dean. Novels 1875-1886. Ed. Edwin M. Cady. The Library of America, 8. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1982.


  69. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

  70. Hurston, Zora Neale. Novels and Stories: Jonah’s Gourd Vine; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountain; Seraph on the Suwanee; Selected Stories. Ed. Cheryl A. Wall. The Library of America, 74. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1995.

  71. Hurston, Zora Neale. Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings: Mules and Men; Tell My Horse; Dust Tracks on a Road; Selected Articles. Ed. Cheryl A. Wall. The Library of America, 75. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1995.


  72. Washington Irving (1783-1859)

  73. Irving, Washington. History, Tales, and Sketches: Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.; Salmagundi or The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others; A History of New York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty; The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Ed. James W. Tuttleton. 1802, 1807-08, 1809, 1819-20. The Library of America, 16. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983.

  74. Irving, Washington. Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; The Alhambra. 1822, 1824, 1832. Ed. Andrew Myers. The Library of America, 52. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1991.

  75. Irving, Washington. Three Western Narratives: A Tour on the Prairies; Astoria; The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. 1835, 1836, 1837. Ed. James P. Ronda. The Library of America, 146. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2004.


  76. Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)

  77. Jackson, Shirley. Novels and Stories: The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Other Stories and Sketches. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. The Library of America, 204. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2010.

  78. Jackson, Shirley. Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s: The Road Through the Wall / Hangsaman / The Bird’s Nest / The Sundial. 1948, 1951, 1954, 1958. Ed. Ruth Franklin. The Library of America, 336. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2020.


  79. Henry James (1843-1916)

  80. James, Henry. Novels 1871-1880: Watch and Ward / Roderick Hudson / The American / The Europeans / Confidence. Ed. William T. Stafford. The Library of America, 13. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983.

  81. James, Henry. Novels 1881-1886: Washington Square / The Portrait of a Lady / The Bostonians. Ed. William T. Stafford. The Library of America, 29. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1985.

  82. James, Henry. Novels 1886-1890: The Princess Casamassima / The Reverberator / The Tragic Muse. Ed. Daniel Mark Fogel. The Library of America, 43. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1989.

  83. James, Henry. Novels 1896-1899: The Other House / The Spoils of Poynton / What Maisie Knew / The Awkward Age. Ed. Myra Jehlen. The Library of America, 139. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2003.

  84. James, Henry. Novels 1901-1902: The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove. Ed. Leo Bersani. The Library of America, 162. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2006.

  85. James, Henry. Novels 1903-1911: The Ambassadors / The Golden Bowl / The Outcry / Appendix: “The Married Son.” Ed. Ross Posnock. The Library of America, 215. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2011.

  86. James, Henry. Complete Stories, Volume 1: 1864-1874. Ed. Jean Strouse. The Library of America, 111. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1999.

  87. James, Henry. Complete Stories, Volume 2: 1874-1884. Ed. William L. Vance. The Library of America, 106. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1999.

  88. James, Henry. Complete Stories, Volume 3: 1884-1891. Ed. Edward Said. The Library of America, 107. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1999.

  89. James, Henry. Complete Stories, Volume 4: 1892-1898. Ed. David Bromwich and John Hollander. The Library of America, 82. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1996.

  90. James, Henry. Complete Stories, Volume 5: 1898-1910. Ed. Denis Donoghue. The Library of America, 83. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1996.

  91. James, Henry. Collected Travel Writings. Great Britain and America: English Hours; the American Scene; Other Travels. Ed. Richard Howard. The Library of America, 64. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1993.

  92. James, Henry. Collected Travel Writings. The Continent: A Little Tour in France; Italian Hours; Other Travels. Ed. Richard Howard. The Library of America, 65. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1993.

  93. James, Henry. Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature; American Writers; English Writers. Ed. Leon Edel & Mark Wilson. The Library of America, 22. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984.

  94. James, Henry. Literary Criticism: French Writers; Other European Writers; The Prefaces to the New York Edition. Ed. Leon Edel & Mark Wilson. The Library of America, 23. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984.

  95. James, Henry. Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings. 1913, 1914, 1917. Ed. Philip Horne. The Library of America, 274. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2016.


  96. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

  97. Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. Ed. Merrill D. Peterson. The Library of America, 17. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984.


  98. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018)

  99. Le Guin, Ursula K. The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena; Stories and Songs. Ed. Brian Attebery. The Library of America, 281. 1979, 1976. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2016.

  100. Le Guin, Ursula K. The Hainish Novels & Stories, vol. 1: Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions; The Left Hand of Darkness; The Dispossessed; Stories. 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1974. Ed. Brian Attebery. The Library of America, 296. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2017.

  101. Le Guin, Ursula K. The Hainish Novels & Stories, vol. 2: The Word for World is Forest; Five Ways to Forgiveness; The Telling; Stories. 1977, 1995, 2000. Ed. Brian Attebery. The Library of America, 297. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2017.

  102. Le Guin, Ursula K. Always Coming Home: Author’s Expanded Edition. 1985. Ed. Brian Attebery. The Library of America, 315. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2019.

  103. Le Guin, Ursula K. Annals of the Western Shore. Gifts; Voices; Powers. Ed. Brian Attebery. 2004, 2006, 2007. The Library of America, 335. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2020.

  104. Le Guin, Ursula K. Collected Poems. Ed. Harold Bloom. The Library of America, 368. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2023.


  105. Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

  106. Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and Writings 1832-1858: Speeches, Letters and Miscellaneous Writings / The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher. 1989. The Library of America, 45. The Bicentennial Edition. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.

  107. Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and Writings 1859-1865: Speeches, Letters and Miscellaneous Writings / Presidential Messages and Proclamations. Ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher. 1989. The Library of America, 46. The Bicentennial Edition. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.

  108. The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now. Ed. Harold Holzer. The Library of America, 192S. The Bicentennial Edition. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2009.


  109. John [Jack] London (1876-1916)

  110. London, Jack. Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, Klondike and Other Stories. 1903, 1904, 1906. Ed. Donald Pizer. The Library of America, 6. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1982.


  111. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937)

  112. Lovecraft, H. P. Tales. Ed. Peter Straub. The Library of America, 155. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2005.


  113. Carson McCullers (1917–1967)

  114. McCullers, Carson. Complete Novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Reflections in a Golden Eye; The Ballad of the Sad Café; The Member of the Wedding; Clock Without Hands. 1940, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1961. Ed. Carlos L. Dews. The Library of America, 128. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2001.

  115. McCullers, Carson. Complete Stories; The Member of the Wedding: A Play; The Sojourner; The Square Root of Wonderful; Essays, Poems & Autobiography. 1950, 1953, 1958. Ed. Carlos L. Dews. The Library of America, 287. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2017.


  116. Herman Melville (1819-1891)

  117. Melville, Herman. Typee, Omoo, Mardi. 1846, 1847, 1849. Ed. G. Thomas Tanselle. The Library of America, 1. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1982.

  118. Melville, Herman. Redburn, White Jacket, Moby-Dick. 1849, 1850, 1851. Ed. G. Thomas Tanselle. The Library of America, 9. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983.

  119. Melville, Herman. Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales & Billy Budd. 1852, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1922 & 1924. Ed. Harrison Hayford. The Library of America, 24. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1985.

  120. Melville, Herman. Complete Poems: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors / Timoleon / Posthumous & Unpublished. 1866, 1876, 1888 & 1891. Library of America Herman Melville Edition, 4. Ed. Hershel Parker. The Library of America, 320. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2019.


  121. William Stanley Merwin (1927-2019)

  122. Merwin, W. S. Collected Poems 1952-1993. Ed. J. D. McClatchy. The Library of America, 240. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2013.

  123. Merwin, W. S. Collected Poems 1996-2011. Ed. J. D. McClatchy. The Library of America, 241. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2013.


  124. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977)

  125. Nabokov, Vladimir. Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight / Bend Sinister / Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited. 1941, 1947, 1951. Ed. Brian Boyd. The Library of America, 87. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1996.

  126. Nabokov, Vladimir. Novels 1955-1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire / Lolita: A Screenplay. 1955, 1957, 1962, 1974. Ed. Brian Boyd. The Library of America, 88. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1996.

  127. Nabokov, Vladimir. Novels 1969-1974: Ada, or Ardor: a Family Chronicle / Transparent Things / Look at the Harlequins!. 1969, 1972, 1974. Ed. Brian Boyd. The Library of America, 89. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1996.


  128. Mary Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

  129. O’Connor, Flannery. Collected Works: Wise Blood; A Good Man is Hard to Find; The Violent Bear It Away; Everything That Rises Must Converge; Essays and Letters. Ed. Sally Fitzgerald. The Library of America, 39. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1988.


  130. Francis Parkman (1823-1893)

  131. Parkman, Francis. France and England in North America, vol. 1: The Pioneers of France in the New World; The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century; La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; The Old Régime in Canada. 1865, 1867, 1869, 1874. Ed. David Levin. The Library of America, 11. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983.

  132. Parkman, Francis. France and England in North America, vol. 2: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV; A Half Century of Conflict; Montcalm and Wolfe. 1877, 1892, 1884. Ed. David Levin. The Library of America, 12. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983.

  133. Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail / The Conspiracy of Pontiac. 1849, 1851. Ed. William R. Taylor. The Library of America, 53. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1991.


  134. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  135. Poe, Edgar Allan. Poetry and Tales. Ed. Patrick F. Quinn. The Library of America, 19. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984.

  136. Poe, Edgar Allan. Essays and Reviews. Ed. G. R. Thompson. The Library of America, 20. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984.


  137. Charles Portis (1933–2020)

  138. Portis, Charles. Collected Works: Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos / Stories & Other Works. 1966, 1968, 1979, 1985, 1991. Ed. Jay Jennings. The Library of America, 369. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2023.


  139. Dawn Powell (1896–1965)

  140. Powell, Dawn. Novels 1944-1962: My Home is Far Away / The Locusts Have No King / The Wicked Pavilion / The Golden Spur. 1944, 1948, 1954, 1962. Ed. Tim Page. The Library of America, 127. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2001.


  141. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (1885-1972)

  142. Pound, Ezra. Poems & Translations. Ed. Richard Sieburth. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2003.


  143. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)

  144. Ryan, Cornelius. The Longest Day / A Bridge Too Far / Other World War II Writings. 1959, 1974. Ed. Rick Atkinson. The Library of America, 318. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2019.


  145. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)

  146. Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Collected Stories. One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah: Old Love / The Collected Stories / The Image & Other Stories / Gifts / The Death of Methuselah & Other Stories / Uncollected Stories. Ed. Ilan Stavans. Vol. 3 of 3. The Library of America, 151. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2004.


  147. Slave Narratives (1772-1864)

  148. Slave Narratives. Ed. William L. Andrews & Louis B. Gates, Jr. The Library of America, 114. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2000.
    1. James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As related by Himself (1772)
    2. Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1789)
    3. Nat Turner: The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southhampton, VA. (1831)
    4. Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)
    5. William Wells Brown: Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave. Written by Himself (1847)
    6. Henry Bibb: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself. With an Introduction by Lucius C. Matlack (1849)
    7. Sojourner Truth: Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (1850)
    8. William and Ellen Craft: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (1860)
    9. Harriet Ann Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself (1861)
    10. Jacob D. Green: Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky. Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848 (1864)


  149. Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

  150. Sontag, Susan. Essays of the 1960s and 70s: Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays. Ed. David Rieff. The Library of America, 246. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2013.


  151. John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (1902–1968)

  152. Steinbeck, John. Novels and Stories, 1932-1937: The Pastures of Heaven; To a God Unknown; Tortilla Flat; In Dubious Battle; Of Mice and Men. 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936 & 1937. Ed. Robert DeMott & Elaine A. Steinbeck. The Library of America, 72. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1994.

  153. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936-1941: The Long Valley; The Grapes of Wrath; The Log from the Sea of Cortez; The Harvest Gypsies. 1938, 1939, 1941 & 1951, 1936 & 1938. Ed. Robert DeMott & Elaine A. Steinbeck. The Library of America, 86. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1996.

  154. Steinbeck, John. Novels, 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down; Cannery Row; The Pearl; East of Eden. Library of America. 1942, 1945, 1947, 1952. Ed. Robert DeMott. The Library of America, 132. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2002.


  155. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

  156. Stevens, Wallace. Collected Poetry & Prose. Ed. Frank Kermode & Joan Richardson. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1997.


  157. Peter Taylor (1917-1994)

  158. Taylor, Peter. Complete Stories: 1938-1959. Ed. Ann Beattie. The Library of America, 298. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2017.

  159. Taylor, Peter. Complete Stories: 1960-1992. Ed. Ann Beattie. The Library of America, 299. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2017.


  160. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

  161. Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden: or, Life in the Woods; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod. Ed. Robert F. Sayre. The Library of America, 28. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1985.

  162. Thoreau, Henry David. Collected Essays and Poems. Ed. Elizabeth Hall Witherell. The Library of America, 124. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2001.


  163. James Grover Thurber (1894-1961)

  164. Thurber, James. Writings and Drawings. Ed. Garrison Keillor. The Library of America, 90. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1996.


  165. Samuel Langhorne Clemens ['Mark Twain'] (1835-1910)

  166. Twain, Mark. Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1852-1890. Ed. Louis J. Budd. The Library of America, 60. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1992.

  167. Twain, Mark. Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1891-1910. Ed. Louis J. Budd. The Library of America, 61. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1992.


  168. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922–2007)

  169. Vonnegut, Kurt. Novels & Stories 1963-1973: Cat's Cradle; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-Five; Breakfast of Champions; Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit. Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition, 2. The Library of America, 216. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2011.

  170. Vonnegut, Kurt. Novels & Stories 1987-1997: Bluebeard; Hocus Pocus; Timequake. Ed. Sidney Offit. Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition, 4. The Library of America, 273. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2016.


  171. Eudora Alice Welty (1909-2001)

  172. Welty, Eudora. Stories, Essays, & Memoir. ['A Curtain of Green' (1941); 'The Wide Net' (1943);'The Golden Apples' (1949);'The Bride of the Innisfallen' (1955);'Selected Essays';'One Writer's Beginnings' (1984)]. Ed. Richard Ford & Michael Kreyling. The Library of America, 102. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1998.


  173. The Western (1940s & 1950s)

  174. The Western: Four Classic Novels of the 1940s & 50s. ['The Ox-Bow Incident', by Walter Van Tillburg Clark (1940); 'Shane', by Jack Schaefer (1949); 'The Searchers', by Alan Le May (1954); 'Warlock', by Oakley Hall (1958)]. Ed. Ron Hansen. The Library of America, 331. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2020.


  175. Walter [Walt] Whitman (1819-1892)

  176. Whitman, Walt. Poetry and Prose. Ed. Justin Kaplan. The Library of America, 3. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1982.



The Library of America
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels & Stories, Volume One LOA N°296  

 
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Henry James: Literary Criticism: French Writers, Other European Writers, Prefaces to the New York Edition LOA N°23



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