Download or read book American Science Fiction Four Classic Novels 1960 1966 LOA 321 written by Poul Anderson and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a deluxe collector's edition hardcover, four classic novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, including the landmark Flowers for Algernon This volume, the first of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, opens with Poul Anderson's immensely popular The High Crusade, in which aliens planning to conquer Earth land in Lincolnshire during the Hundred Years' War. In Clifford Simak's Hugo Award-winning Way Station, Enoch Wallace is a spry 124-year-old Civil War veteran whose lifelong job monitoring the intergalactic pit stop inside his home is largely uneventful--until a CIA agent shows up and Cold War hostilities threaten the peaceful harmony of the Galactic confederation. Daniel Keyes's beloved Flowers for Algernon, winner of the Nebula Award and adapted as the Academy Award-winning movie Charly, is told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, a young man with severe learning disabilities who is the test subject for surgery to improve his intelligence. And in the postapocalyptic earthscape of Roger Zelazny's Hugo Award-winning . . . And Call Me Conrad (also published as This Immortal) Conrad Nomikos reluctantly accepts the responsibility of showing the planet to the governing extraterrestrials' representative and protecting him from rebellious remnants of the human race. Using early manuscripts and original setting copy, this Library of America volume restores the novel to a version that most closely approximates Zelazny's original text.

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Download or read book Four Classic American Novels written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1969-04-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shining examples of American literature at its best, these four novels explore timeless themes through compelling narratives. Includes the complete and unabridged texts of Hawthornes "Thea Scarlet Letter," Herman Melvilles "Billy Budd," Mark Twains "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and Stephen Cranes "The Red Badge of Courage." Revised reissue.

Download or read book Four Great American Classics written by Stephen Crane and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents four classic American stories, "The Scarlett Letter," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "The Red Badge of Courage," and "Billy Budd, sailor."

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