She is the author of We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870 (1997) and the book-length study "Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance," which appears in the sixth volume of The Cambridge History of American Literature (2002). This beautifully designed, two-volume boxed set contains nine unabridged classic novels from the 1920s and 1930s

In Harlem it was like a foretaste of paradise Together, the nine works in Harlem Renaissance Novels form a vibrant collective .

In Harlem it was like a foretaste of paradise. Together, the nine works in Harlem Renaissance Novels form a vibrant collective portrait of African American culture in a moment of tumultuous change and tremendous hope. Each Library of America series volume is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker. Project support for these volumes was provided by The Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation. Already Have the Books?

Collection: (two-Volume Boxed Set) Hardcover – Box set, 1 September 2011. Hardcover: 1752 pages.

Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Library of America Collection: (two-Volume Boxed Set) Hardcover – Box set, 1 September 2011. She is the author of We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870 (1997) and the book-length study "Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance," which appears in the sixth volume of The Cambridge History of American Literature (2002).

Together, the nine works in Harlem Renaissance Novels form a vibrant collective portrait of African American .

Together, the nine works in Harlem Renaissance Novels form a vibrant collective portrait of African American culture in a moment of tumultuous change and tremendous hope.

Harlem Renaissance Novels book. Claude McKay's Home to Harlem is then second novel in the new Library of America set of novels from the Harlem Renaissance. The novel tells the story of Jake, who returns home to Harlem after the Armistice in 1919. Jake parties away in the Congo lounge, has adventures with gals, takes a job as a cook on a train, and finally settles down at the end of the book with a girl he met briefly in the first part of the book.

Two-volume set from The Library of America arrives November 5!. .

Two-volume set from The Library of America arrives November 5! Samuel Delany. Behold the box for the forthcoming The Library of America two-volume 1960s American SF anthology, ed. by Gary K. Wolfe (artwork by the great Paul Lehr).

This collection cherry-picks novels of and about the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s, succeeding in getting across the amazing intellectual and artistic breadth of this particular time and place. On the shelf, it’s the sort of collection that says you recognize not only the greatest hits of a New York literary movement, but also the importance of its grand sweep.

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. Harlem Renaissance Novels: Five Novels of the 1930s. Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published over 300 volumes by a wide range of authors from Mark Twain to Philip Roth, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, including the selected writings of several .