Pléiade: The French Library of America

Something at once grander, more serious, more permanent, and more disinterested was promised—an American equivalent, it was said, of the classic Pléiade editions of French literature.

The Library of America betrayed | The New Criterion

When the Library of America was founded, with much fanfare, in 1979, its avowed purpose was to bring us “the collected works of America’s foremost authors i ...

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