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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Dickens in Brooklyn: Essays on Family, Writing, and MadnessDickens in Brooklyn is a virtuoso collection of unusual, compelling essays in which critically acclaimed and award-winning author Jay Neugeboren explores experiences that have been central to his life: caring long-term for a brother with mental illness; finding and connecting with long-lost family members;...
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Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines: The Cat in Folklore, Myth, and LegendCurious Cats and Fantastical Felines gives an intriguing insight into the historical relationship between cats and humans by exploring the folklore, myths, and legends that relate to cats from around the globe. For thousands of years, cats and humankind have been inextricably intertwined. From...
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Common Sense: Thomas PaineCommon Sense by Thomas Paine. Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let...
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A Taste of Honey: a PlayThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Colorado BookThe Colorado Book brings together some of the voices that have shaped the Centennial State, offering readers an expansive journey through Colorado's literary, historical, and cultural landscape. Curated with deep knowledge of the state's heritage, this collection spans genres and generations--from compelling fiction and...
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Return to Elkins Creek: A Fishing OdysseyReturn to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very rural Mississippi at a time "when the poorest among us in the Deep South still...
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National Verses: Values, Virtue, and Vision in American and African American Song TextsIs African American music relegated to Negro spirituals and field songs, or is there more?And how well can Black gospel, hip-hop, and other genres actually represent ourpresent-day struggle for racial justice and equity?In this in-depth look at America and its music, Dr. John Ware...
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Mon Cher Amour: The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares, 1944-1959The impassioned correspondence between the Nobel Prize-winning author and the renowned Spanish-born French actress who appeared in his plays, tracing the extreme highs and lows of their all-consuming love affair--a bestseller in France, translated for the first time into English Albert. Albert chéri. Write...
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Learn Russian with Beginner Stories: Interlinear Russian to EnglishBest book to learn Russian for beginnersDo you want to learn Russian with original Russian beginner stories? It's easy with Russian and interlinear English. 90+ pages with every word translated literally and in English idiom so you can keep on reading and learn a...
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Jota: A Queer Latina y Latinx AnthologyJOTA: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology is a landmark collection of over 70 queer writers and artists. Building on the foundation of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991) and Compañeras (1987), JOTA shares a new addition to the queer...
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How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our SelvesA vital testament to how art makes us who we are--and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives. Barbara Kruger once defined art as "the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be...
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Enough about Angels: The Nobel LectureAddressed to a rapt audience in Stockholm two days before being awarded his Nobel Prize, László Krasznahorkai's moving lecture asks: "Human being--astonishing creature--who are you?" In a message about hope (or his lack thereof), Krasznahorkai compassionately considers humanity and how, from our degraded current...
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Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHDFifteen essays that offer inspiration, encouragement, and advice from accomplished writers with ADHD. A rising number of ADHD diagnoses, particularly among adults, is not only confirmed by medical studies and mainstream reporting but also borne out across social media and elsewhere among people who'd...
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Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban OutdoorsA triumphant, cross-generational exploration of Black joy and resilience. Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites readers to breathe deeply and return to that "carefree" season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the...
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The OdysseyThe greatest of all epics, soon to be a film by Christopher Nolan! "This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet."The Telegraph A magnificent feat of translation, hailed by classicists and poets alike as a "momentous achievement" "thrilling," "rich and rhythmical," "superb,"...
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Signals of Being, or Verbum Caro Factum Est: A Play in Three ActsIn the early days of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the residents of a small co-op community outside of Kyiv find themselves in increasingly desperate circumstances, surrounded by occupying Russian forces. Pinched between Bucha and Borodianka, cut off from aid, and unable to escape,...
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare.Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. The play is believed to have been written between 1599 and...
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Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the End of the World"Raw, undeniable, and tender." --Kate Baer, New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman"As quietly earth-shattering as it is tenderly hopeful." --Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and WreckA thoughtful, evocative, and urgently needed collection that reimagines the stories...
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden LettersEach working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said,...
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Fourteen Ways of LookingStudded with moments of surprise, wit, and intellectual delight, this light-footed, piercing memoir of grief tracks reverberations of loss and acceptance across a lifetime.When Erin Vincent was fourteen years old, both of her parents were killed in a traffic accident. Almost forty years later,...
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