Tento autor sa preslávil predovšetkým ako životopisec, ktorý sa sústredil na významné osobnosti americkej histórie a kultúry. Jeho hlboký záujem o hrdinov a ich odkaz sa odráža v jeho prenikavých portrétoch. Ako šéfredaktor Bartlett's Familiar Quotations preukázal svoj vytvorený cit pre jazyk a jeho historické využitie.
In Pocket Aristotle the author, Justin D. Kaplan brings to life selections from Aristotle. Included in this edition are the most widely read, studied, and quoted works of the great philosopher. The editor's notes give the reader a convenient and concise review of each work.
Príbeh sleduje Huckleberryho Finna, ktorý uniká pred svojím zneužívajúcim otcom a obmedzeniami spoločenských noriem, a vydáva sa na vzrušujúcu cestu po rieke Mississippi so Jimom, utečeným otrokár. Ich dobrodružstvá nútia Hucka konfrontovať svoje morálne presvedčenia a prevládajúce sociálne hodnoty jeho doby. Dielo Marka Twaina z roku 1884 kritizuje rasizmus a triedne predsudky, pričom využíva regionálne dialekty a humor. Tento román sa vyznačuje ako priekopnícky kúsok v americkej literatúre, ponúkajúci ostrú sociálnu kritiku života v 19. storočí prostredníctvom svojho satirického pohľadu.
Traces the lives of cousins William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, rivals who pursued separate ambitions, built the original Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and influenced social behavior before John Jacob perished aboard the Titanic.
This Library of America edition is the most comprehensive volume of the work of Walt Whitman ever published. It includes all of his poetry and what he considered his complete prose. It is also the only collection that includes, in exactly the form in which it appeared in 1855, the first edition of Leaves of Grass . This was the book, a commercial failure, which prompted Emerson’s famous message to Whitman: “I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” These twelve poems, including what were later to be entitled “Song of Myself” and “I Sing the Body Electric,” and a preface announcing the author’s poetic theories, were the first stage of a massive, lifelong work. Six editions and some thirty-seven years later, Leaves of Grass had become one of the central volumes in the history of world poetry.