The Library of America Collection

The Library of America: Now available in one complete collection. Thirty years ago, The Library of America was founded to undertake a historic endeavor: to help preserve the nation''s cultural heritage by publishing America''s best and most significant writing in durable and authoritative editions. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation''s history" (Newsweek), this award-winning series maintains America''s most treasured writers in "the...
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The Library of America: Now available in one complete collection.

Thirty years ago, The Library of America was founded to undertake a historic endeavor: to help preserve the nation''s cultural heritage by publishing America''s best and most significant writing in durable and authoritative editions. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation''s history" (Newsweek), this award-winning series maintains America''s most treasured writers in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (The New Republic).

Now the entire Library of America series is available in one complete collection for home, office, or institutional libraries. The set is made up of 255 titles across a wide range of genres, including fiction, history, poetry, drama, essays, philosophy, travel writing, journalism, sermons, speeches, and slave narratives. From the writings of the Founding Fathers to the poetry of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, from the journalism of the Civil Rights movement to the novels of Zora Neale Hurston and Philip Roth, from Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings to H.P. Lovecraft: Tales, this is the ultimate collection of American letters.

For 2012, the Library of America Complete Collection has been updated and expanded with recently published titles including Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories, John Adams: Revolutionary Writings, H.L. Mencken: Prejudices, and The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael. Click here to see the full list of volumes contained in the collection.

What are the bestselling titles in the Library of America? Here are the recent favorites, including a number of 20th-century writers new to the series: Dick, Lovecraft, Kerouac, Roth, Bierce:

The 50 Funniest American Writers*: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion *According to Andy Borowitz

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (The Man in the High Castle; Ubik, etc.)

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil''s Dictionary, Tales & Memoirs

Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (Common Sense; Rights of Man, etc.)

H.P. Lovecraft: Tales

The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It

Jack Kerouac: Road Novels, 1957-1960 (On the Road; The Dharma Bums, etc.)

Flannery O''Connor: Collected Works (Wise Blood; Everything That Rises Must Converge; etc.)

Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (Red Harvest; The Maltese Falcon; etc.)

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Philip Roth: The American Trilogy (American Pastoral; I Married a Communist; The Human Stain)

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau

Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; etc.)

Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters (Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant; Selected Letters, 1839-1865)

Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; etc.)

John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783

Tennesee Williams: Plays 1937-1955

John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1755-1775

Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings (The Lady in the Lake; The Long Goodbye; etc.)

Thomas Jefferson: Writings (Autobiography; Notes on the State of Virginia; etc.)

James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Notes of a Native Son; The Fire Next Time; etc.)