Literary Collections
Explore our collection of literary books and timeless literary classics at our online bookstore, featuring the best in teenage literature, literary fiction, and modern literature. Discover must-read and best-selling titles, along with insightful criticism literature to enhance your reading experience.
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Kafkaesque: From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century LiteratureA lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times"What happens to a writer's work when it is translated-specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"In Kafkaesque, Maïa...
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Turn Where: A Geography of HomeA probing essay collection that chronicles one woman's complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study "In Chet'la Sebree's sensitive and tender hands, this book's quest (and question) of home is captivating. An intimate rendering of...
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The Portable Abraham LincolnCelebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our...
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The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt LakeFor thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake's alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and...
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The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold BloomA selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an...
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The Color WheelThe Color Wheel is a collection of 117 poems by 117 poets. The collection includes such poets as Kim Addonizio, Ted Kooser, Alice Friman, Alberto Rios, Paulann Petersen, Betsy Sholl, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Sydney Lea, and Dorianne Laux. Each poem makes strategic use of color....
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Since You're Mortal . . .: Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays"The truly happy man ought to stay at home.""Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love.""Hades, alone of the gods, does not enjoy bribes."These quotes and many others from the great Greek dramatists, including Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Menander, were preserved long after...
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Every Broken Angel: A Southern story of silence, shame and sacred reckoningEvery Broken Angel is a haunting Southern gothic novel about inheritance-of silence, of shame, and of the choices that echo long after a life ends.Born into a world where women are expected to endure and never speak, Ruby Amsler grows up in the Ozarks...
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A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural WorldPulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.In A Third Commonness, US Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography--from Zen Buddhism to California ecopoetics, from Barry Lopez to Walt...
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Ways of Telling"Ways of Telling isn't like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at the keyhole, the ear at the door? It is its own thing."--Margaret Atwood "Fractured, haunting, intimate and totally original, Ways of Telling knocked the breath out of me. It's...
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United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and HopeThis is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a nation and its people. Although we're taught not to care about others' opinions,...
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To See BeyondA globe-spanning essay collection on the human condition from the author James McBride calls "one of the most creative and important nonfiction writers in our era"Our hyper-informed digital era of climate catastrophe, historically unmatched migration, and genocide confronts us with a terrible conundrum: the...
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The Life of Mary as Seen by the MysticsGenerations of devout Catholics, including many learned theologians and writers, have derived great spiritual benefits from a careful reading of the private revelations here compiled, those of Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich and Ven. Mary of Agreda, primarily, along with those of St. Bridget of...
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Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The CherryorchardFive masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull--now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Moss, and Annette Bening At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new...
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Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic WestA lyric exploration of the complicated shared legacy of the atomic west through the lens of family history and the aftermath of the Manhattan Project. Ty Bannerman's family came to Los Alamos in 1952 to build nuclear bombs. This fact has become their origin...
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No Contact: Writers on Estrangement"A landmark work around a theme so prominent--and yet so thoroughly ignored--in modern life." --Ocean Vuong A poignant and galvanizing anthology that illuminates the realities and nuances of family estrangement, with pieces by Stephanie Foo, Nick Flynn, Deesha Philyaw, Cheryl Strayed, and others Estrangement...
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My Heart & I AgreeFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Lucy Sante (I Heard Her Call My Name), a new collection of essays and reflections, mixing memoir with incisive writing about photography, music, literature, and film.Here she learns to dance by watching Soul Train, dissects the image of the cowboy,...
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams"A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to...
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Mamá, Quiero Escuchar Tu Historia: Un Diario Guiado Para Que Mamá Comparta Su Vida Y Su AmorLa colección oficial de Hear Your Story(R)Da a mamá el regalo de ser conocida de verdad. Mamá, Quiero Escuchar tu Historia es más que un diario guiado: es una invitación sincera para que tu mamá pueda reflexionar, recordar y compartir los momentos que dieron...
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in FictionHailed as a "genius-enchantress" (Karen Russell) and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated novelist Andrea Barrett has for decades reached backward to find inspiration from the past and written acclaimed and prizewinning works of historical fiction. In Dust and Light, the first work...
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