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W.E.B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du … more

Mama Dada is the first book the examine Gertrude Stein’s drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein’s major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writ… more

Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner’s most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest h… more

“An irresistible book about Grub Street, authorship and the literary marketplace.”—Washington Post Book World Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books a… more

Explaining the world of William Faulkner’s “Light in August” is the primary goal of this glossary. Like other books in this series, it explains, identifies, and comments on many elements that a reader may find unfamiliar or difficult. These… more

Mississippi author Eudora Welty, the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series, mentored many of today’s greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority of the twentieth century (190… more

Black Oxen is the best-seller novel in 1923 by Gertrude AthertonThe Authorized Black Oxen for Kindle Edition offers reader special Kindle enabled features, including interactive table of contents.Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30,… more

“[Donald] Goines’s novels have sold millions of copies in the inner cities (rappers are big fans). Originally published in 1974, this high-profile paperback reprint takes him mainstream. It’s about time.” —Suzanne Rura, Entertainment Weekl… more

National Book Award Winner Philip Roth’s brilliant career was launched when the unknown twenty-five-year-old writer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for a collection that was to be called Goodbye, Columbus, and which, in turn, c… more

Your purchase helps fund free educational resources at BompaCrazy.com!!!!!!! The Philip K. Dick Short Story Collection contains Beyond Lies the Wub, Beyond the Door, The Crystal Crypt, and The Defenders!! “Philip Kindred Dick (December 1… more

A Life in the Dark, a biography of Pauline Kael by Brian Kellow has just been published. Library of America has published an anthology of her writing. Both books are worthy and have been widely and seriously reviewed. In 1980, Renata Adler,… more

The Eel appeared in the April 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.The punishment had to fit more than just the crime—it had to suit every world in the Galaxy!Miriam Allen deFord was an American writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,… more

Ever wondered who makes a very funny person laugh? Wonder no more. Brought together in this Library of America collection are America’s fifty funniest writers—according to acclaimed writer and comedian Andy Borowitz. Reaching back to Mark T… more

Another classic novel brought to you by reKINDLEd:This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch.Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known a… more