John Cheever Complete Novels LOA 189 Book [PDF] Download

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• Release Date : 05 March 2009

The Library of America presents this definitive collection of Cheever's novels: "The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer," and "Oh What a Paradise It Seems."

• Publisher : Library of America
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• Release Date : 22 April 1997

In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the

• Publisher : Library of America
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• Release Date : 27 December 2012

In the winter of 1912, Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) abruptly left his office and spent three days wandering through the Ohio countryside, a victim of “nervous exhaustion.” Over the next few years, abandoning

• Publisher : Library of America
• File Size : 24,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 1996

James Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern citydweller whose zaniest flights of free association are

• Publisher : Library of America
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• Release Date : 01 October 1989

Abraham Lincoln was the greatest writer of the Civil War as well as its greatest political leader. His clear, beautiful, and at times uncompromisingly severe language forever shaped the nation’

• Publisher : Library of America
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• Release Date : 01 October 1989

Abraham lincoln measured the promise—and cost—of American freedom in lucid and extraordinarily moving prose, famous for its native wit, simple dignity of expressions, and peculiarly American flavor. This

• Publisher : Library of America
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• Release Date : 01 October 1990

Hailed as prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, William Tecumseh Sherman is the most controversial general of the American Civil War. “War is cruelty,

• Publisher : Library of America
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• Release Date : 01 September 2011

A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the

• Publisher : Library of America
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• Release Date : 15 January 2000

The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition

• Publisher : Library of America
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• Release Date : 01 October 1990

Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family’s future. in doing so, the Civil War’