100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature
Complete Set of 100 Volumes
Franklin Library
Includes Complete Set of Notes from the Editors
FINE Condition
Published between 1974 and 1982, this is an incredible collection of the greatest literary works by American authors that were selected by America’s Universities under the auspices of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. From the publisher, “These are the books that have shaped the cultural heritage of our nation – that have made American literature admired and respected throughout the world. More important, these are the works that will remain the cornerstones of our culture for centuries to come. For these literary masterpieces have no equal. They represent the greatness of America.” These books feature all the usual Franklin Library fineries including full leather covers, silk moire endpapers, gold gilding and gilting, and satin bookmarks. The books in the collection are:
1. Typee by Herman Melville.
2. The Country of the Pointed Firs and 14 Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett.
3. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren.
4. Two Years Before the Mast By Richard Henry Dana.
5. 48 Collected Poems and 3 Essays on Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe.
6. 1919 by John Dos Passos
7. Personae - A Draft of 30 Cantos by Ezra Pound.
8. Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams.
9. Collected Poems by W. H. Auden.
10. Abraham Lincoln His Speeches and His Writings.
11. Interpretations and Forecasts: 1922-1972 by Lewis Mumford.
12. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner.
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
14. Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe.
15. The Ambassadors by Henry James.
16. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen.
17. My Antonia by Willa Cather.
18. Admiral of the Ocean Sea, A Life of Christopher Columbus, by Samuel Eliot Morison.
19. Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.
20. E. E Cummings Collected Poems.
21. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
22. Essays (1st & 2nd Series) by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
23. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens.
24. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
25. Poor Richard's Almanacks for 1733 - 1758 by Benjamin Franklin.
26. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner.
27. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
28. The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore.
29. The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
30. The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman.
31. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.
32. The Complete Poems of Hart Crane.
33. Six Plays by Lillian Hellman.
34. The Collected Poems 1909 - 1962 of T. S. Eliot.
35. Round Up (The Stories of Ring Lardner)
36. Selected Tales by Henry James.
37. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
38. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving.
39. Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards.
40. Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg.
41. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.
42. The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson.
43. Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
44. The Poetry of Robert Frost.
45. Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
46. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
47. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
48. The First Forty-Nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway.
49. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.
50. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
51. John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benet.
52. A Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken.
53. The Journals of Lewis and Clark
54. Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur.
55. The Federalist American State Papers.
56. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
57. A Week on the Concord and Merrimak Rivers by Henry David Thoreau.
58. Billy Budd, Sailor & The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville.
59. Dusk of Dawn by W. E. Du Bois
60. Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris.
61. McTeague by Frank Norris.
62. Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson.
63. 23 Sories by Stephen Crane.
64. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner.
65. Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow.
66. 121 Selected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
67. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams.
68. Up From Slavery, an Autobiography by Booker T. Washington.
69. The Flowering of New England 1815 -1865 b y Van Wyck Brooks.
70. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.
71. The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber.
72. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
73. Psychology by William James.
74. Of Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647 by William Bradford.
75. The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
76. 35 Selected Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
77. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.
78. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
79. Thornton Wilder's Plays
80. Pragmatism by William James.
81. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.
82. Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West.
83. Flannery O'Connor (The Complete Stories.)
84. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
85. Eugene O'Neill (Four Plays.)
86. Common Sense, The American Crisis and The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.
87. Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Adams.
88. Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
89. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.
90. The Tell-Tale Heart and 23 Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
91. The 27 Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.
92. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
93. 5 Collected Plays by Arthur Miller.
94. The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells.
95. 7 Selected Plays by Tennessee Williams.
96. The DeerSlayer by James Fenimore Cooper.
97. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
98. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
99. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams.
100. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The books are in FINE condition. Included with the collection are the Notes From The Editors that accompanied each edition as well as the cases to house the notes. The photograph used is a stock photograph that is representative of the appearance of the books in the collection.
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