Mark Twain is perhaps the most widely read and enjoyed of all our national writers. This Library of America collection presents his best-known works, together for the first time in one volume. Tom Sawyer “is simply a hymn,” said its author, “put into prose form to give it a worldly air,”
This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written. The Innocents Abroad (1869), based largely on
Medieval Romance : 6 vols The Critical Heritage Series: Comprises of individual volumes on: Dante, Geoffrey Chaucer (2 volumes), Sir Thomas Malory, John Skelton and Edmund Spenser. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a
This first volume of The Library of America’s three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. Typee and Omoo, based on the young Melville’s experiences on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of the idyllic life among the “cannibals” in Polynesia.
Michel Foucault(2)- Vols.4-7 Critical Assessment of Contemporary Economists Foucault’s work can generally be characterized as philosophically oriented historical research; towards the end of his life, Foucault insisted that all his work was part of a single project of historically investigating the production of truth. What Foucault did across his major
Narrative & Dramatic Sources Of Shakespeare – 8 Vol. Set: A handsome set. Volume I: Early Comedies, Poems, Romeo and Juliet. Volume II: The Comedies, 1597-1603. Volume III: Earlier English History Plays: Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II. Volume IV: Later English History Plays: King John, Henry IV, Henry V:
