HC Classics
DAMNED THING, DELUXE EDITION: WEIRD AND GHOSTLY TALES
Written by Bierce, Ambrose
A bone-chilling, beautifully produced new collection of 11 uncanny tales from one of the great American masters of the ghost story Any lover of dark and unsettling tales will be enthralled by the short stories in this collection, all from the pen of the great Ambrose Bierce.
WILLIAM FAULKNER: STORIES (LOA #375): KNIGHT'S GAMBIT / COLLECTED STORIES / BIG WOODS / OTHER WORKS
Written by Faulkner, William
Library of America caps its six-volume edition of William Faulkner's works with a volume gathering of all the stories he collected in his lifetime, in corrected texts Faulkner called the short story "the most demanding form after poetry" and wrote to an editor that "even to a collection of short stories, form, integration, is as important as to a novel--an entity of its own, single, set
CRIME NOVELS: FOUR CLASSIC THRILLERS 1964-1969 (LOA #371): THE FIEND / DOLL / RUN MAN RUN / THE TREMOR OF FORGERY
Written by Highsmith, Patricia
In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre's literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter--here are four of their finest works This is the second of two volumes gathering the best American crime fiction of the 1960s, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, tran
DON DELILLO: MAO II & UNDERWORLD (LOA #374)
Written by Delillo, Don
The definitive edition of a modern master continues with 2 mid-career masterpieces, published here with new prefaces from the author This second volume in the Library of America DeLillo edition collects two extraordinary novels he published in the 1990s, the peak of his career.
CRIME NOVELS: FIVE CLASSIC THRILLERS 1961-1964 (LOA #370): THE MURDERERS / THE NAME OF THE GAME IS DEATH / DEAD CALM / THE EXPENDABLE MAN / THE SCORE
Written by Stark, Richard
In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre's literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter--here are five of their finest works This is the first of two volumes gathering the best American crime fiction of the 1960s, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, trans
ANNIE ERNAUX: THE BOXED SET
Written by Ernaux, Annie
Thirteen books written by 2022 Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux published by Seven Stories Press. Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux is considered one of Europe's most important contemporary writers. She has expanded the very meaning of literature and has asserted her feminism and class consciousness in the stories she tells.
VERTIGO, DELUXE EDITION
Written by Narcejac, Thomas
An irresistible gift edition of the classic French noir novel that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo In World War II-era Paris, a troubled-ex policeman is entangled in a web of deceit and lies when he investigates a woman's strange behavior Flavières doesn't really want to investigate his old's friend's wife, but he doesn't feel he has much of a choice.
INIMITABLE JEEVES, DELUXE EDITION
Written by Wodehouse, P G
A renowned feel-good classic of comic writing from "arguably the greatest writer of comic prose ever," gorgeous hardcover gift edition (The New York Times) "Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale.
WHAT DO I KNOW?: ESSENTIAL ESSAYS
Written by Montaigne, Michel
A fresh new translation of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose This gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by "the father of the essay" is a short, accessible introduction to his work, offering a fascinating glimpse inside a great Renaissance mind "I myself am the subject of my book." So wrot
CRIME NOVELS OF THE 1960S: NINE CLASSIC THRILLERS (A LIBRARY OF AMERICA BOXED SET)
Written by O'Brien, Geoffrey
Library of America presents a deluxe edition of unforgettable crime thrillers of the 1960s Here in two volumes are 9 timeless novels, including 4 lost classics now restored to print In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers--reimagined American crime fiction.