The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works

The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works (2005–2017) is a series collecting Philip Roth's works. The Library of America's aim is to collect and republish all of Roth's literary output. Originally envisioned as an eight-volume series, the revised plan presents Roth's oeuvre in ten volumes. First published in 2005, ten volumes have been published as of 2017. All were edited by Ross Miller, except the last one, by Roth himself,Philip Roth bibliographical note - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books although reportedly the chronology and dust jacket copy were in fact authored by Roth himself under Miller's name.

Volume 1: Novels and Stories 1959–1962 LOA #157: Published August 18, 2005, , 913 pages Goodbye, Columbus (1959) Letting Go (1962)

Volume 2: Novels 1967–1972 LOA #158: Published August 18, 2005, , 671 pages When She Was Good (1967) Portnoy's Complaint (1969) Our Gang (1971) The Breast (1972)

Volume 3: Novels 1973–1977 LOA #165: Published October 19, 2006, , 900 pages The Great American Novel (1973) My Life As a Man (1974) The Professor of Desire (1977)

Volume 4: Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue 1979–1985 LOA #175: Published September 20, 2007, , 675 pages The Ghost Writer (1979) Zuckerman Unbound (1981) The Anatomy Lesson (1983) The Prague Orgy (1985) Unproduced television screenplay for The Prague Orgy (1985)

Volume 5: Novels and Other Narratives 1986–1991 LOA #185: Published September 4, 2008, , 767 pages The Counterlife (1986) The Facts (1988) Deception (1990) Patrimony (1991)

Volume 6: Novels 1993–1995 LOA #205: Published September 2, 2010, , 842 pages Operation Shylock (1993) Sabbath's Theater (1995)

Volume 7: The American Trilogy 1997–2000 LOA #220: Published September 29, 2011, , 1088 pages American Pastoral (1997) I Married a Communist (1998) The Human Stain (2000)

Volume 8: Novels 2001–2007 LOA #236: Published February 7, 2013, , 740 pages The Dying Animal (2001) The Plot Against America (2004) Exit Ghost (2007)

Volume 9: Nemeses LOA #237: Published February 7, 2013, , 598 pages Everyman (2006) Indignation (2008) The Humbling (2009) Nemesis (2010)

Volume 10: Why Write?: Collected Nonfiction 1960–2013 LOA #300: Published September 12, 2017, , 476 pages Roth’s selection of Reading Myself and Others (1975) Shop Talk (2001) Explanations (fourteen later pieces)

References

External links Philip Roth at the official Library of America website.