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.[1] 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,[2] although reportedly the chronology and dust jacket copy were in fact authored by Roth himself under Miller's name.[3]

Volume 1: Novels and Stories 1959–1962

LOA #157: Published August 18, 2005, ISBN 978-1-931082-79-2, 913 pages

• Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
• Letting Go (1962)

Volume 2: Novels 1967–1972

LOA #158: Published August 18, 2005, ISBN 978-1-931082-80-8, 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, ISBN 978-1-931082-96-9, 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, ISBN 978-1-59853-011-7, 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, ISBN 978-1-59853-030-8, 767 pages

• The Counterlife (1986)
• The Facts (1988)
• Deception (1990)
• Patrimony (1991)

Volume 6: Novels 1993–1995

LOA #205: Published September 2, 2010, ISBN 978-1-59853-078-0, 842 pages

• Operation Shylock (1993)
• Sabbath's Theater (1995)

Volume 7: The American Trilogy 1997–2000

LOA #220: Published September 29, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59853-103-9, 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, ISBN 978-1-59853-198-5, 740 pages

• The Dying Animal (2001)
• The Plot Against America (2004)
• Exit Ghost (2007)

Volume 9: Nemeses

LOA #237: Published February 7, 2013, ISBN 978-1-59853-199-2, 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, ISBN 978-1-59853-540-2, 476 pages

• Roth’s selection of Reading Myself and Others (1975)
• Shop Talk (2001)
• Explanations (fourteen later pieces)

References

1. "Will 8 Roth Volumes Be Enough? - Library of America Subscribers - LibraryThing". www.librarything.com.
2. Philip Roth bibliographical note - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books
3. Marsh, Laura (2021-03-22). "Philip Roth's Revenge Fantasy". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2025-05-20. As the editor, Miller was meant to provide a 10,000-word chronology of Roth's life, but Roth wrote it himself and signed Miller's name to it; he also wrote all the jacket copy himself, claiming he could do a better job.

External links

• Philip Roth at the official Library of America website.