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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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Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
Introduced by Leon Wieseltier

ISBN: 978-1-59853-060-5
524 pp. / $13.95
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Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Introduced by Robert Stone

ISBN: 978-1-59853-061-2
159 pp. / $7.95
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays: First and Second Series
Introduced by Douglas Crase

ISBN: 978-1-59853-084-1
432 pp. / $12.95
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William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Introduced by Jaroslav Pelikan

ISBN: 978-1-59853-062-9
390 pp. / $13.95
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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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Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Introduced by Russell Baker

ISBN: 978-1-59853-085-8
696 pp. / $12.95
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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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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Introduced by James M. McPherson

ISBN: 978-1-59853-086-5
552 pp. / $8.95
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Introduced by Edward Hoagland

ISBN: 978-1-59853-063-6
390 pp. / $11.95
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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Introduced by Russell Baker

ISBN: 978-1-59853-087-2
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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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Coming Spring 2011!

American Speeches
Political Oratory from Patrick Henry to Barack Obama
Introduced by Ted Widmer

Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography
Introduced by Daniel Aaron

Thomas Jefferson
Public and Private Papers
Introduced by Tom Wicker

Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Introduced by John Hollander