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A detailed chronology of the
author’s life and career
An essay on the choice of the text
Explanatory notes on the text
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The Library of America Paperback Classics are
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W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
Introduced by John Edgar Wideman

ISBN: 978-1-59853-054-4
256 pp. / $10.95
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Abraham Lincoln
Selected Speeches and Writings
Introduced by Gore Vidal

ISBN: 978-1-59853-053-7
550 pp. / $16.95
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Jack London
The Call of the Wild
Introduced by E. L. Doctorow

ISBN: 978-1-59853-058-2
120 pp. / $7.95
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Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Tales, with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Introduced by Diane Johnson

ISBN: 978-1-59853-056-8
460 pp. / $14.95
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Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi
Introduced by Jonathan Raban

ISBN: 978-1-59853-057-5
432 pp. / $9.95
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Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
Introduced by Mary Gordon

ISBN: 978-1-59853-055-1
390 pp. / $10.95
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Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
Introduced by Leon Wieseltier

Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Introduced by Robert Stone
William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Introduced by Jaroslav Pelikan

Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Introduced by Edward Hoagland