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Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays

1992
A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.

Novels & stories, 1959-1962

2005
A collection of writings by American author Philip Roth that includes five short stories and a novella.

Complete stories, 1898-1910

1996
Presents the final volume in the complete short stories of American author Henry James, featuring thirty-one selections written between 1898 and 1910.

American speeches

2006
Contains the unabridged texts of eighty-three speeches by Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, presented in chronological order from 1865 to 1997.

Novels, 1973-1977

2006
Presents three novels from the collected works of American author Philip Roth including "The Great American Novel," "My Life as a Man," and "The Professor of Desire.".

Novels, 1967-1972

2005
Presents three novels by American author Philip Roth, with an introduction to the author's life and work.

Poetry and tales

1984
Preface (Tamerlane and other poems-1827)--Letter to Mr.--(Poems-1831)-Preface (The Raven and other poems-1845) --O Tempora! O, Mores!--To Margaret--To Octavia--(etc.).

A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers

Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod
1985
Henry David Thoreau's four full-length works about the exploration of nature in New England from rivers in Massachusetts to woods in Maine.

Writings

1987
On t.p.: Boston and London, 17221726--Philadelphia, 1726-1757--London, 1757-1775--Paris, 1776-1785-Philadelphia, 1785-1790--Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733-1758--The Autobiography.

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