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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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special EditionThe essential portrait of America in the sixties, by the acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking. More than a half century after its publication in 1968, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains an essential portrait of America--and California in particular--during the sixties....
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Romeo and JulietFor this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new introduction. It draws on recent research in theatre to set Romeo and Juliet in its mid-1590s context, making connections with other plays by Shakespeare and other literature of...
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Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern WorldThe story of how one misunderstood disease became the global blueprint for stigma and ostracization Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World reveals leprosy as the world's foundational stigma, underlying the colonialism, exclusion, and exploitation that has shaped contemporary life. After...
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MeditationsIntroduction 4 First Book 17 Second Book 26 Third Book 31 Fourth Book 39 Fifth Book 52 Sixth Book 64 Seventh Book 77 Eighth Book 91 Ninth Book 105 Tenth Book 117 Eleventh Book 131 Twelfth Book 141 Glossary 150 Excerpt: SECOND BOOK I....
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McSweeney's Issue 82 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 82st issue: a stunning double issue featuring a never before translated novella by Alejandro Zambra! The latest issue of McSweeney's National Magazine Award-winning quarterly comes to you housed inside an M-shaped, accordion-style, joined-at-the-back double-hardcover, folding...
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Jacob's Room'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.' Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive title...
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Euripides I: Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/HippolytusEuripides I contains the plays "Alcestis," translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Medea," translated by Oliver Taplin; "The Children of Heracles," translated by Mark Griffith; and "Hippolytus," translated by David Grene. Many years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation...
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THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE And Other Words To Die ForTHINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE and other words to die for is an interconnected Southern gothic noir journey from Reconstruction New Orleans to a present-day landscape of terror. Each story invests the reader in a setting and characters that traverse the fringes of...
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The Pineal Gland: The Eye Of GodScientists refer to the pineal gland as the "atrophied third eye." Indeed, it, along with the pituitary, is the third eye chakra or energy center, but are more dormant than atrophied. According to Max Heindel's, in the distant past, man was in touch with...
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The Concept of MindThe Concept of Mind by philosopher Gilbert Ryle argues that "mind" is "a philosophical illusion hailing chiefly from René Descartes and sustained by logical errors and 'category mistakes' which have become habitual."The work has been cited as having "put the final nail in the...
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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other ProseThe complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered "last" stories, published here in book form for the first time--from "one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).Call If You Need Me includes all of...
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At the Feet of the MasterKrishnamurti's profound early work of spiritualism displays great wisdom attuned to matters of higher contemplation.Demonstrating a precocious ability to instil and guide others with spiritual wisdom, Jiddu Krishnamurti was twelve when he first authored this primer on gaining knowledge. The book is not an...
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28 Portuguese Poets: A Bilingual AnthologyThis major bilingual anthology, with English translations by Richard Zenith and Alexis Levitin, introduces the work of 28 Portuguese poets (beginning with Fernando Pessoa and his 'heteronyms'), and reveals a richly varied body of verse that is at once a place of departure and...
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Vā: Stories by Women of the MoanaStories that tell Covid how we REALLY feel, where a Centipede God watches on with wry humour and wrath, where a sexy Samoan goes on a hot Tinder date in Honolulu, where a New Zealand doctor is horrified to be stuck at her cousin's...
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Trans Central Station'No, I was not trapped in the wrong body. I was trapped in the wrong universe. In order to become who I was, I had to break the world open.' Trans Central Station reflects on a trans life lived before the language to name...
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Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)Pore over the letters of Eve Babitz--queen of the witty, gossipy, and thoroughly engrossing missive. Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, Anne Rice, Steve Martin, and many others appear in this first-of-its-kind collection. Eve Babitz was a pure product of Los Angeles....
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Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of KinshipWhat's it like when a complete unknown is actually close family? In Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship-a provocative anthology curated by B.K. Jackson, with a foreword by Libby Copeland, 28 acclaimed and emerging writers explore the transformative experience of encountering...
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Ninety-Six Hours: A Wife and Mother's Desperate Search for the Lost Titan SubThe devastating true story of one woman's search for her husband and son aboard the lost Titan sub.Written by Christine Dawood, widow and mother of two Titan submersible victims, Ninety-Six Hours is a deeply human memoir chronicling the harrowing search and rescue operation following...
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Love You, Bye: A Daughter's Journey in Essays and PoemsA luminous collection of essays and poems about family, faith, and the art of saying goodbye from award-winning essayist, poet, and teacher Brenda Miller. In Love You, Bye, award-winning author Brenda Miller maps the territory of caregiving, loss, and unexpected grace. The title--drawn from...
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A Tapestry of Vivid Strands: Hungarian Roots in American SoilA Tapestry of Vivid Strands traces a life shaped by curiosity, perseverance, and the quiet pursuit of understanding. Born into a world newly delivered from war, the author recalls growing up in a 1950s working-class neighborhood on the South End of Columbus, Ohio-a time...
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