The most comprehensive edition of the hard-boiled crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett ever published
“McCullers’s novels, collected for the first time by The Library of America, are proof yet again that the lesser work of a great author is usually better than the best work of a minor one.”— The Plain Dealer
“His genius, his inspiration in this poem and some others, was to look around the streets, at the billboards and the advertising slogans, and see in those things a language. And he was able to figure out that this language itself contained…
“For more than 50 years Philip Roth’s books have stimulated, provoked and amused an enormous, and still expanding, audience. His imagination has not only recast our idea of Jewish identity, it has also reanimated fiction, and not just America…
“[T]hese colorful works reveal a side of the author—that of a travel writer—all too often ignored.” — Dallas Morning News
“James Baldwin’s gift to our literary tradition is that rarest of treasures, a rhetoric of fiction and the essay that is, at once, Henry Jamesian and King Jamesian.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Fifty years after the turmoil of 1968, modern America’s most turbulent decade comes to life though the collected writings of its greatest literary provocateur
“The Town and The Mansion contain some of Faulkner’s most robust humor…. The Reivers was the final book of a physically and emotionally wasted writer. But it has a clear virtue: … the novel i…