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1 THE GUARDIANS OF AMERICAN LETTERS FUND An opportunity to share in the preservation of America s literary heritage by endowing a volume in The Library of America series List of Volumes Available for Adoption Henry Adams, History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson James Agee, Film Writing & Selected Journalism James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction American Musicals , The Complete Books & Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics: Guys and Dolls, The Pajama Game, My Fair Lady, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, 1776 American Poetry, The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels : The Space Merchants, More Than Human, The Long Tomorrow, The Shrinking Man American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels : Double Star, The Stars My Destination, A Case of Conscience, Who?, The Big Time The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner Sherwood Anderson, Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio; The Triumph of the Egg, Horses and Men; Death in the Woods; Uncollected Stories John Ashbery, Collected Poems William Bartram, Travels & Other Writings Saul Bellow, Novels : Dangling Man, The Victim, The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow, Novels : Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog Saul Bellow, Novels : Mr. Sammler s Planet, Humboldt s Gift, The Dean s December Ambrose Bierce, The Devil s Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs Charles Brockden Brown, Three Gothic Novels: Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly William Wells Brown, Clotel & Other Writings: includes Narrative of William Wells Brown, a Fugitive Slave; Clotel, or, the President s Daughter; The American Fugitive in Europe; The Escape, or, A Leap for Freedom

2 Raymond Carver, Collected Stories: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love; Cathedral; Beginners; Other Stories and Selected Essays John Cheever, Complete Novels: The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer, Oh What a Paradise It Seems John Cheever, Collected Stories & Other Writings Charles Chesnutt, Stories, Novels, & Essays: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, selected essays Kate Chopin, Complete Novels & Stories: Bayou Folk, A Night in Acadie, The Awakening, uncollected stories James Fenimore Cooper, Sea Tales: The Pilot, The Red Rover Hart Crane, Poems & Selected Letters Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me; The Talented Mr. Ripley; Pick- Up; Down There; The Real Cool Killers Philip K. Dick, Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik Philip K. Dick, Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip; Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb; Now Wait for Last Year; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick, VALIS and Later Novels: A Maze of Death; VALIS; The Divine Invasion; The Transmigration of Timothy Archer John Dos Passos, Novels , Three Soldiers, One Man s Initiation, Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos, Travel Books and Other Writings Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy Jonathan Edwards, Writings from the Great Awakening James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day William Faulkner, Novels : Soldiers Pay, Mosquitoes, Flags in the Dust William Faulkner, Novels : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon William Faulkner, Novels : Absalom, Absalom!; The Unvanquished; If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem; The Hamlet William Faulkner, Novels : Go Down, Moses; Intruder in the Dust, Requiem for a Nun; A Fable William Faulkner, Novels : The Town, The Mansion, The Reivers: Reminiscence David Goodis, Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s: Dark Passage, Nightfall, The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, Street of No Return

3 Harlem Rennaissance Novels: Five Novels of the 1920s: Cane, Home to Harlem, Quicksand, Plum Bun, The Blacker the Berry Harlem Rennaissance Novels: Four Novels of the 1930s: Not Without Laughter, Black No More, The Conjure-Man Dies, Black Thunder Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tales & Sketches: Twice-told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Snow Image, The Wonder Book, Tanglewood Tales, other stories Lafcadio Hearn, American Writings: Some Chinese Ghosts, Chita, Two Years in the French West Indies, Youma, Selected Journalism and Letters William Dean Howells, Novels : A Foregone Conclusion, Indian Summer, A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells, Novels : The Minister s Charge, April Hopes, Annie Kilburn Zora Neale Hurston, Folklore, Memoirs & Other Writings: Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articles Zora Neale Hurston, Novels & Stories: Jonah s Gourd Vine; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Moses, Man of the Mountain; Seraph on the Suwanee; Stories Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra Washington Irving, History, Tales & Sketches: Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.; Salmagundi; A History of New York; The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.; other satires and sketches Washington Irving, Three Western Narratives: A Tour on the Prairies; Astoria; The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Shirley Jackson, Novels and Stories: The Lottery, or The Adventures of James Harris; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle; Other Stories and Sketches Henry James, Collected Travel Writings, Volume I: Great Britain & America: English Hours, The American Scene, Other Travels Henry James, Complete Stories : includes Gabrielle de Bergerac, Master Eustace, Guest s Confession, and others Henry James, Complete Stories : includes The Real Thing, The Figure in the Carpet, The Turn of the Screw, and others Henry James, Novels : Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, Confidence Henry James, Novels : The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse Henry James, Novels : The Other House, The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age Henry James, Novels : The Sacred Fount, The Wings of the Dove William James, Writings : The Will to Believe & Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, Psychology: Briefer Course, Talks to Teachers & to Students; other essays William James, Writings : The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, A Pluralistic Universe, The Meaning of Truth, Some Problems of Philosophy James Weldon Johnson, Writings: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Along This Way, God s Trombones

4 George S. Kaufman & Co., Broadway Comedies: The Royal Family, Animal Crackers, June Moon, Once in a Lifetime, Of Thee I Sing, You Can t Take It with You, Dinner at Eight, Stage Door, The Man Who Came to Dinner Jack Kerouac, Collected Poems Jack Kerouac, Road Novels : On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, Tristessa, Lonesome Traveler, Journal Selections Ring Lardner, Stories & Other Writings: includes You Know Me Al, The Big Town, The Real Dope Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems & Other Writings: includes The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, Tales from a Wayside Inn, Kavanagh H. P. Lovecraft, Tales Bernard Malamud, Novels and Stories of the 1940s & 50s: The Natural, The Assistant, Stories Bernard Malamud, Novels and Stories of the 1960s: A New Life, The Fixer, Pictures of Fidelman, Stories John Marshall, Writings William Maxwell, Early Novels & Stories: Bright Center of Heaven, They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, Time Will Darken It, selected stories William Maxwell, Later Novels & Stories: The Chateau; So Long, See You Tomorrow; Stories and Improvisations Carson McCullers, Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Ballad of the Sad Café, The Member of the Wedding, Clock Without Hands Herman Melville, Typee, Omoo, Mardi H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series W. S. Merwin, Collected Poems W. S. Merwin, Collected Poems Arthur Miller, Collected Plays, : After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The Creation of the World and Other Business, Up from Paradise, The American Clock, The Archbishop s Ceiling, Playing for Time, The Reason Why, Fame, The Poosidin s Resignation, I Think About You a Great Deal, Elegy for a Lady, Some Kind of Love Story Vladimir Nabokov, Novels & Memoirs : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight; Bend Sinister; Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov, Novels : Lolita; Pale Fire; Pnin; Lolita: A Screenplay Vladimir Nabokov, Novels : Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle; Transparent Things; Look at the Harlequins! Frank Norris, Novels & Essays: Vandover & the Brute, McTeague, The Octopus

5 Eugene O'Neill, Complete Plays : : Ah, Wilderness!, Days Without End, A Touch of the Poet, More Stately Mansions, The Iceman Cometh, Hughie, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories and Other Writings Ezra Pound, Poems and Translations Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism Reporting Civil Rights, Part Two: American Journalism Theodore Roosevelt, Letters & Speeches Philip Roth, Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue : The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, The Prague Orgy Philip Roth, Novels and Other Narratives: The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception, Patrimony Philip Roth, Novels : Operation Shylock, Sabbath s Theater Philip Roth, The American Trilogy: American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain Philip Roth, Novels : The Dying Animal, The Plot Against America, Exit Ghost Philip Roth, Nemeses: Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, Nemesis Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs Isaac Bashevis Singer, Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah Capt. John Smith, Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America Susan Sontag, Essays of the 1960s & 70s: Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, On Photograhy, Illness as Metaphor, uncollected essays Gertrude Stein, Writings : Stanzas in Meditation, Henry James, Lectures in America, The Geographical History of America, The World is Round, Ida, Brewsie & Willie, and essays John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath & Other Writings : The Long Valley, The Grapes of Wrath, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, The Harvest Gypsies John Steinbeck, Novels & Stories : The Pastures of Heaven, To a God Unknown, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, Of Mice & Men John Steinbeck, Novels : The Moon is Down, Cannery Row, The Pearl, East of Eden John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley and Later Novels : The Wayward Bus, Burning Bright, Sweet Thursday, The Winter of Our Discontent, Travels with Charley in Search of America May Swenson, Collected Poems John Updike, Collected Early Stories John Updike, Collected Later Stories

6 Kurt Vonnegut, Novels & Stories : Player Piano; The Sirens of Titan; Mother Night; stories Kurt Vonnegut, Novels & Stories : Cat s Cradle; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse Five; Breakfast of Champions; stories Kurt Vonnegut, Novels & Stories : Slapstick, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galápagos The War of 1812: Writings from America s Second War of Independence Lynd Ward, Gods Man, Madman s Drum, Wild Pilgrimage Lynd Ward, Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, Vertigo Nathanael West, Novels & Other Writings: The Dream Life of Balso Snell, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, and The Day of the Locust Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Little House Books, Volume One: Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Little House Books, Volume Two: By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, The First Four Years Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels : The Cabala; The Bridge of San Luis Rey; The Woman of Andros; Heaven s My Desitnation; The Ides of March; Selected Stories and Essays Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings Tennessee Williams, Plays : includes Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Night of the Iguana Richard Wright, Early Works: Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom's Children, Native Son Richard Wright, Later Works: Black Boy (American Hunger), The Outsider March 2014

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