Murder and romance, innocence and experience dominate this masterfully constructed novel set in Rome during the mid-19th century.
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This Library of America volume offers what no reader has ever been able to find—an authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne in a single c...
Like all of Hawthorne's novels, "The Scarlet Letter" has but a slender plot and but few characters with an influence on the development of the story. Its great dramatic fo...
Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days, published in 1882, provides an extraordinary picture of an aging poet reassessing the path of his long life, one intrinsically linked with th...
Book Description In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass , the work that defined him as one of America?s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his...
This is the original and complete 1855 edition of one of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, including Whitman's own introduction to the work.
Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her em...
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philos...
Carefully selected passages from 55 years of journal entries: thoughts, religious sentiments, impressions of books, authors, contemporaries, much more. Splendid, revealing...
Произведение американского писателя и философа-идеалиста Р.У.Эмерсона объединяет ряд очерков философско-морализующего характера, в которых главным является проповедь самоу...
In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American re...
In Essays: Second Series (1844) by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author brought together a series of writings that laid out many of the fundamental concepts of the philosophica...
This collection of the first series of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson collects some of the classic thoughts of this important American and leader of the Transcendentalist m...
Book DescriptionEdited with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff.
Book Description A devout Quaker who became a passionate poetic spokesman for the antislavery movement, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807?92) was one of the most beloved Ameri...
Действие романа "Зверобой" американского писателя Джеймса Фенимора Купера происходит в сороковых годах ХVIII века, во времена освоения европейскими колонизаторами бескрайн...
Book DescriptionWilliam Cullen Bryant was an American poet and editor. At one time, he practiced law, but later devoted himself entirely to writing. Many of his early work...
1820. Washington Irving was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and is considered to be the Father of the American Short Stor...
Проникновенная "Дама с собачкой" – и печальная "Попрыгунья". Хлесткий "Человек в футляре" – и озорные "Мальчики". Беспощадная "Палата номер шесть" – и трогательная "Каштан...
В настоящем издании публикуются пьесы А.П.Чехова "Дядя Ваня", "Три сестры", "Вишневый сад", а также статья известного исследователя чеховской драматургии А.П.Скафтымова.