The three individual volumes have won a variety of awards, including the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History.

In 1992 this volume won two Western Australian Premier's book awards.

That first volume won Birney a Governor General's Award in 1942.

Lear's volume will itself probably win psychoanalysis some new allies.

Ms. Frame's 12 novels, four story collections, one poetry collection and three volumes of autobiography won dozens of awards.

This last volume won her the 2010 Premio Valle-Inclan.

Perhaps the biggest losers will be smaller travel agencies, which often lack the volume of business to win extra payments.

The second volume won the Pulitzer, and the final volume, dealing with the century beginning in 1876, came out in 1980.

The first volume, "Parting the Waters," won the Pulitzer Prize for history.

Later volumes on Hart Crane and other poets won him lasting acclaim.