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LIBRARY OF AMERICA The Library of America is an award-winning nonprofit publishing program dedicated to publishing America 's best and most significant writers in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. This year, an impressive line-up of releases joins The Library of America, a series hailed by Newsweek as "the most important book--publishing project in the nation's history." For more information visit The Library of America's website at www.loa.org. 
SAUL BELLOW: With notes by James Wood, who edited the first volume in the series, this second collection is a must-have edition for lovers of 20th century American literature. It contains three of Bellow’s greatest works: Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959) and Herzog (1964). These novels established Bellow as one of the most brilliant and vital writers of the postwar period and won a receptive mass audience. CAPTAIN
JOHN SMITH: This volume is the first to present the majority of Captain John Smith’s works in full with gripping first-hand dispatches from Virginia and New England, personal memoirs, and perceptive analyses of the challenges of colonization. His accounts of the earliest phases of the English colonial enterprise, rich with the suspense of an uncertain future and the astonishment of a new continent, offer unrivalled observation of Native American cultures, the natural world, and internal struggles of the English settlers. Offering varying accounts of the dramatic, harrowing, tragic, and triumphant story of the settlement of Roanoke and Jamestown, these narratives, which amplify and on occasion challenge Smith’s own account, capture the fear and fascination of first contact, the brutal violence of communities in extreme hardship, the complex interplay of feuds and rivalries between two disparate cultures, and the dramatic story of Pocahontas.
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STEINBECK: Steinbeck is an enduringly popular writer whose works have been read and re-read by generations of readers. This culminating volume in the series brings together his final four novels: The Wayward Bus (1947), Burning Bright (1950), Sweet Thursday (1954) and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961). In addition, it includes the extraordinary travel book Travels with Charley (1962) which has become one of his most beloved works. This fourth and final volume in The Library of America’s John Steinbeck edition marks the culmination of an unrivaled collection and provides the perfect opportunity to reflect upon the literary legacy of an American master. THORNTON
WILDER: Offering the first collected edition of the plays of one of America’s most revered playwrights, this volume contains three dozen works including The Matchmaker, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Our Town, “probably the finest play ever written by an American,” in the words of playwright Edward Albee. As an added feature, the book brings together Wilder’s essays on his own plays and his reflections on dramatic tradition, much of which is no longer available in the trade edition. And published here for the first time is Wilder’s screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1943 film Shadow of a Doubt. AMERICAN
FOOD WRITING: Acclaimed memoirist and cookbook author Molly O’Neill gathers the very best from over 250 years of American culinary history in a groundbreaking new volume. This literary feast offers a fascinating and often surprising portrait of American history through the evolving culture of food, as expressed by a wide range of celebrated writers, from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Langston Hughes, and John Steinbeck to Ruth Reichl, Alice Waters, David Sedaris, and Eric Schlosser. Throughout the anthology are more than 50 classic recipes, from cookbooks vintage and modern, certain to instruct, delight and inspire home chefs. PHILIP
K. DICK: Known in his lifetime mainly to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure. The Library of America will publish a highly anticipated volume collecting four of his most original novels: The Man in the High Castle (1962), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), which was the basis for the movie Blade Runner, and Ubik. Released in time for the 25th anniversary of Blade Runner, the volume is a long-awaited addition to The Library of American’s canon. Editor Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels, including Gun, With Occasional Music and The Fortress of Solitude. Motherless Brooklyn, his fifth, won the National Book Critics Award and has been translated into twenty languages. His newest, You Don’t Love Me Yet, will be published in March. |
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