HC Classics
RAYMOND CARVER: COLLECTED STORIES
Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations.
WILLA CATHER: EARLY NOVELS AND STORIES
Written by Willa Cather
Presents a selection of writings by nineteenth-century American author Willa Cather, featuring the short story collection "The Troll Garden," and four novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "One of Ours."
AMBROSE BIERCE: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, TALES, AND MEMOIRS: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, TALES, AND MEMOIRS
Written by Ambrose Bierce
Features a collection of the most celebrated and significant writings from the Civil War veteran and San Francisco literary figure.
SAUL BELLOW: NOVELS 1970-1982: MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET / HUMBOLDT'S GIFT / THE DEAN'S DECEMBER
Written by Saul Bellow
"James Wood wrote the notes for this volume"----Prelim. p.
SAUL BELLOW: NOVELS, 1956-1964
Passionate, insightful, often funny, and exhibiting a linguistic richness few writers have equaled, the novels of Saul Bellow are among the defining achievements of postwar American literature.
SAUL BELLOW NOVELS 1944-1953: DANGLING MAN/THE VICTIM/THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH
Winner of the Nobel Prize and a towering figure of twentieth-century literature, Saul Bellow secured his place as one of the most distinctive and significant writers of the postwar era with the publication of his third novel, The Adventures of Augie March.
JAMES AGEE: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN / A DEATH IN THE FAMILY / SHORTER FICTION
A passionate literary innovator, eloquent in language and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909-1955) excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and screenwriter. In his brief, often turbulent life, he left enduring evidence of his unwavering intensity, observant eye, and sometimes savage wit.
RABBIT ANGSTROM: THE FOUR NOVELS: RABBIT, RUN, RABBIT REDUX, RABBIT IS RICH, AND RABBIT AT REST
Written by John Updike
Four novels trace the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom against the changing American society from the sixties to the eighties
RADETZKY MARCH
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) By one of the most distinguished Austrian writers of our century, a portrait of three generations set against the panoramic background of the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire. Translated by a three-time winner of the PEN Translation Prize.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, THE EASTER PARADE, ELEVEN KINDS OF LONELINESS
Written by Richard Yates
A trio of classic works from a master American novelist features the author's first novel, Revolutionary Road, the story of a disintegrating marriage; The Easter Parade, about two sisters whose parents' divorce affects their entire lives; and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, a collection of short stories. 17,500 first printing.
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