30 August 2006

Library of America Preserves, Spreads American Literature

Reasonably priced volumes popularize classic works for a worldwide audience

In 1962, the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson proposed to his friend, publisher Jason Epstein, the need for "a complete and compact form of the principal American classics." "It is absurd that our most read and studied writers should not be available in their entirety in any convenient form," Wilson wrote.
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A DIVERSE LITERATURE FOR A DIVERSE PEOPLE

Novelists and playwrights of the American South are prominently represented through the works of James Agee, William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams, women by Edith Wharton, Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein. Immigrant writers from Isaac Bashevis Singer to Vladimir Nabokov are here.

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