The three novels in this volume of The Library of America's collected edition of Henry James portray American women confronting crises of independence and control.

Written at the height of Irvin's popularity, these three collections of stories and sketches teem with humor, adventure, mystery, and romance.

Ada or ardor : a family chronicle: a witty and parodic account of a ma's lifelong love for his sister. Transparent things: weaves dream, memory, and time into a haunting novella of a young American's marriage, the murder of his wife, and a lone journey to uncover the truth. Look at the harlequins: Nabokov's final novel, about a novelist very much like himself. An ironic, intricate hall of mirrors that blurs the line between fiction and autobiography....

This volume gathers Jame's first 24 published stories. Diverse in subject, setting, and formal technique, they show the young James equally at ease writing historical tales or exploring contemporary events.

Contains the first three novels of Paul Bowles.

An anthology of classic poetic works with religious and spiritual themes evaluates the influences of such movements as Puritanism, the Great Awakenings, and Transcendentalism, in a volume that discusses the works of such figures as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

" ... Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems, songs, military reports, legal opinions, and memoirs, 'The Civil War: The First Year' brings together over 120 pieces by more than sixty participants to create a unique firsthand narrative of this great historical crisis ..."--Dust jacket flap.

The Civil War's greatest general as you've never seen him before, in a revealing collection of letters to his wife Julia introduced by Ron Chernow. Ulysses S. Grant is justly celebrated as the author of one of the finest military autobiographies ever written, yet many readers of his Personal Memoirs are unaware that during his army years Grant wrote hundreds of intimate and revealing letters to his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Presented with an introduction...

Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...