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Arthur Miller: Collected Plays Vol. 3 1987-2004 (LOA #261) (Library of America Arthur Miller Edition)

By: Arthur Miller

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Library of America: Apr-15

Seller ID: 462035

ISBN: 1598533533

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For Arthur Miller's centennial year, The Library of America and editor Tony Kushner present the final volume in the definitive collected edition of the essential American dramatist. Here are eleven masterful, haunting, funny, and provocative later plays, from the double-bill Danger: Memory (1987) to Finishing the Picture (2004), Miller's final stage work, based loosely on events around the filming of The Misfits, in 1960, with Marilyn Monroe. In between, Miller revisits the perennially rich themes that define his work--the vagaries of fate and chance, the press of p...
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Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings (Library of America) by Benjamin Franklin (2005-10-06)

By: Benjamin Franklin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Library of America: January 1723

Seller ID: 458447

ISBN: B01FIW2NEA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Later Novels & Other Writings

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dec-10

Seller ID: 458048

ISBN: 1883011086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language.

Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is ...
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Essays and Lectures (Library of America)

By: Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Apr-11

Seller ID: 458435

ISBN: 940450151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

McTeague (Library of America}

By: Frank Norris

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: Oct-90

Seller ID: 452159

ISBN: 067973273X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America)

By: Hamilton, Alexander

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: 437841

ISBN: 1931082049

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Alexander Hamilton, the subject of Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit Broadway musical, comes to life in his own words in this critically acclaimed collection, which also includes conflicting eyewitness accounts of the duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death. One of the most vivid, influential, and controversial figures of the founding of America, Hamilton was an unusually prolific and vigorous writer. As a military aide to George Washington, critic of the Articles of Confederation, proponent of ratification of the Constitution, first Secretary of the Treasury, and leader of the Federalist Part...
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Rise of Silas Lapham

By: Howells, William Dean

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Jul-13

Seller ID: 442475

ISBN: 679725172

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975 (Library of America)

By: Just, Ward

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sep-16

Seller ID: 452976

ISBN: 1883011906

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This one-volume selection, drawn from the original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books collected in the acclaimed two-volume hardcover edition, brings together the work of over fifty remarkable writers to create a powerful mosaic view of America's longest war. Reporting Vietnam follows events from the first American fatalities in 1959 through the Tet Offensive in 1968 to the fall of Saigon in 1975, recording the shifting course of the fighting, its impact on an increasingly fractured America, and the changing texture of American journalism.

Here are Homer Bigart David Halbe...
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[Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories] (By: Kate Chopin) [published: October, 2014]

By: Kate Chopin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Library of America: Oct-14

Seller ID: 458444

ISBN: B016YLEU68

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Library of America- American History Slipcase

By: Library of America

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 458471

ISBN: 281BXI1002635

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Reporting World War II Part Two: American Journalism 1944-46

By: Library of America

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Mar-16

Seller ID: 451972

ISBN: 1883011051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This Library of America volume (along with its companion) evokes an extraordinary period in American history--and in American journalism. Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle, John Hersey, A.J. Liebling, Edward R. Murrow, Janet Flanner: in a time when public perceptions were shaped mainly by the written word, correspondents like these were often as influential as politicians and as celebrated as movie stars.

This second volume traces the final eighteen months of the war: the campaign in Italy and the Southwest Pacific, the Normandy invasion, the island battles from Saipan to Iwo Jima, the liberati...
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Reporting World War II, Part 1: American Journalism, 1938-1944 (Library of America)

By: Library of America

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Feb-17

Seller ID: 451975

ISBN: 1883011043

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This Library of America volume is the first of a unique two-volume anthology. Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and wartime books, Reporting World War II captures the intensity of the war's unfolding drama as recorded by the best of a remarkable generation of journalists, whose talents, sense of purpose, and physical courage remain unsurpassed in the annals of war reporting. Here in one collection, over eighty writers, famous and forgotten alike, confront the crucial events of those years in writing of exceptional skill and emotional force.

The f...
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Writings

By: Washington, George/ Rhodehamel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Apr-11

Seller ID: 458448

ISBN: 188301123X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For two centuries, George Washington has stood "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," universally acknowledged as the one indispensable founder of the American republic. This Library of America volume--the most extensive and authoritative one-volume collection ever published--covers five decades of Washington's astonishingly active life and brings together over 440 letters, orders, addresses, and other writings.

Among the early writings included are the journal Washington kept at age sixteen while surveying the Shenandoah Valley frontier and the dramatic...
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