“These volumes make a valuable contribution to the learning and teaching of American history. The men who wrote the script for national independence were strong, daring thinkers and skilled writers, with their lives at stake and their…
Moving from Wisconsin to Kansas to Minnesota, the story of the Ingalls family relates an entire epoch in the settling of America.
“Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, in their emotional intensity, are the most intimate and lyrical of his novels.” — New York Review of Books
“For those of us who are still able to read novels for pleasure, this is a marvelous book.” — Gore Vidal, The New York Review of Books
Novels: On the Road | The Dharma Bums | The Subterraneans | Tristessa | Lonesome Traveler | Visions of Cody | Visions of Gerard | Big…
“The very welcome Library of America edition of Jackson’s work, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, contains, in addition to Hill House, 46 of her short stories. . . . Jackson wrote wonderfully at every stage of her career, but it’s…