6 Library of America
The Library of America is a nonprofit publishing program advised and directed by America’s foremost scholars and
dedicated to producing an authoritative collection of our nation’s best and most significant writing. Over 250 titles have been published to
date. Each book features: authoritative, unabridged texts • notes and a chronology of the author’s life • a discussion of textual history
and selections • and a high-quality, sewn binding and acid-free paper for durability. Visit www.loa.org for a complete list of titles and for further information.
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The Library of America
John Updike: The Collected Stories
Christopher Carduff, editor
The definitive Updike: 186 classic stories spanning his
entire dazzling career. Based on new archival research,
each story is presented in its final definitive form and
in order of composition, established here for the first
time. Sold separately in two volumes or in a deluxe
boxed set (shown).
1872 pp. (boxed set)• 978-1-59853-250-0
$75 • loa #242 & #243
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology
from the Revolution to Now
James Shapiro, editor / Foreword by Bill Clinton
In seventy-two pieces ranging from the eighteenth
century to the twenty-first, James Shapiro (Contested
Will) recaptures the fascinating story of America’s
passionate engagement with Shakespeare.
714 pp. + 16 pp. insert • 978-1-59853-295-1
29. 95 • loa#251
Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s
David Rieff, editor
The essential works of the most provocative and
influential critic of her time, Against Interpretation
(1966), Styles of Radical Will (1969), On Photography
(1977), and Illness as Metaphor (1978) plus six hard-to-find, previously uncollected essays.
870 pp. • 978-1-59853-255-5 • $40 • loa#246
American Earth: Environmental Writing
Since Thoreau
Bill McKibben, editor / Foreword by Al Gore
“For anyone seeking to understand the historical and
intellectual roots of today’s environmental movement,
this is the best resource between two covers.”
—Boston Globe
1047 pp. + 80 pp. insert • 978-1-59853-020-9
$40 • loa#182
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories
William L. Stull & Maureen P. Carroll, editors
Includes Beginners, the original version of What We
Talk About When We Talk About Love.
“Now, for the first time, a single volume offers readers
the chance to compare the ‘canonical’ Lish-edited
versions with Mr. Carver’s manuscript originals.”
— The Wall Street Journal
1019 pp. • 978-1-59853-046-9 • $40 • loa #195
Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories
Charles Baxter, editor
All the story collections published in his lifetime—
Winesburg, Ohio (1919), The Triumph of the Egg (1921),
Horses and Men (1923), and Death in the Woods
(1933)—with a generous selection of stories left
uncollected or unpublished at his death.
Listen to today’s leading short story writers read selections from
this volume at www.loa.org/sherwood.
898 pp. • 978-1-59853-204-3 • $35 • loa#235
Philip Roth: Nemeses
Ross Miller, editor
The Library of America completes its nine-volume
edition of Roth’s collected works with his haunting
quartet of late novels about death: Everyman (2006),
Indignation (2008), The Humbling (2009), and
Nemesis (2010).
468 pp. • 978-1-59853-199-2 • $35 • loa#237
Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957–1960
Douglas Brinkley, editor
On the Road with four other autobiographical “road
books” published during a remarkable four-year
period: The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans,
Tristessa, and Lonesome Traveler. Also included are
selections from Kerouac’s journal, which provide
fascinating early impressions of experiences later
incorporated into On the Road.
864 pp. • 978-1-59853-012-4 • $40 • loa#174
May Swenson: Collected Poems
Langdon Hammer, editor
Here are all the poems from the collections Another
Animal (1954), A Cage of Spines (1958), To Mix with
Time (1963), Half Sun Half Sleep (1967), Iconographs
(1970), New & Selected Things Taking Place (1978), and
In Other Words (1987), with an extensive selection of
previously uncollected work.
792 pp. • 978-1-59853-210-4 • $40 • loa#239
American Science Fiction:
Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s
Gary K. Wolfe, editor
www.loa.org/sciencefiction
1680 pp. (boxed set)
978-1-59853-157-2
$70 • loa #227 & #228
