Library of America

A collection of three novels written by Kurt Vonnegut between 1987 and 1997.

"Presents the pioneering work of revisionist scholarship that was written to debunk racist ideas and emphases that had disfigured the historical record on Reconstruction, along with other . . . writings that trace Du Bois's thinking about Reconstruction throughout his career"--BTCat.

A collection of three novels by twentieth-century African-American author James Baldwin.

"Kindred ... heroine, Dana a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesia discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays"--Back of cover of dust jacket.

"The road through the wall reveals the hatreds and crimes hidden behind a California suburb's picture-perfect facades. Hangsaman is a psychological thriller in which a college student's loneliness takes a sinister turn. In the Bird's nest, a young office worker's multiple personalities for predominance. And in the Sundial, ... an eccentric clan sheltering at home makes increasingly deranged preparations for the apocalypse"--Back of cover of dust jacket.

Unabridged editions of Stowe's three best and most enduring works.

Presents a collection of poems by African-American poets.

Presents a collection of essays by American writer, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag.