Yuma Public Library

Contains two of Sinclair Lewis's most famous novels and includes a chronology of the author's life and career, and notes on the texts.

"Native Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature -- and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. This two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first time Wright's major works in the form in which he intended them to be read. The authoritative new texts, based on Wright's original typescripts and proofs, reveal the...

Profiles the works of Tennessee Williams and provides information on his life and writing career

A selection of writings by John James Audubon, including excerpts from his natural history texts, as well as journal entries, memoirs, and letters. Includes a portfolio of his drawings.

A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.

From the publisher. American literature has known few writers capable of the comic elan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell's work was out of print, cherished only by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been a rediscovery of the writer Gore Vidal calls "our best comic novelist," and whom Edmund Wilson considered to be "on a level with Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh,...

Three novels by Sinclair Lewis: "Arrowsmith" (1925) is a satiric study of the medical profession, whose fine scientific ideals may be frustrated. "Elmer Gantry" (1927), attacks the ignorant, gross, and predatory leaders who had crept into the Protestant church. "Dodsworth" (1929), details the experiences of a retired big businessman and his wife on a European tour.