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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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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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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Fairy Tales of AppalachiaWhile taking a graduate course in Appalachian literature at the University of Tennessee, Stacy Sivinski was surprised to discover that much of the folklore she had heard while growing up in Schuyler, Virginia, was rarely represented in popular published collections. In particular, they lacked...
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Euripides' MedeaEuripides' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane J. Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality and vibrant poetry. She provides an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes. The book...
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White MagicFinalist for the PEN Open Book Award Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award A TIME, NPR, New York Public Library, LitHub, BookRiot, and Entropy Best Book of the Year "Beguiling and haunting. . . . Washuta's voice sears itself onto the skin." ―The New...
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WaldenWalden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around...
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The Strenuous LifePolitician, soldier, naturalist, and historian -- a century after the peak of his multifaceted career, Theodore Roosevelt remains a towering symbol of American optimism and progress. This collection of speeches and commentaries from 1899 through 1901 embodies the Rough Rider's enduring ideals for attaining...
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The Confessions of Samuel Pepys: Private Revelations from Britain's Most Famed DiaristA remarkable collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of their publication. The Diary of Samuel Pepys is the most celebrated personal journal in the English language. Pepys's candid revelations as he forged his...
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Chuukese Folklore: Island bedtime stories and fairytalesChuukese folklore, bedtime stories and legends that have been passed down orally for genenrations and has now been translated and adapted by the grand daughter of Matriarch and story teller Rosa Newo. Most endings of Chuukese stories are sad and tragic but she has...
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Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered DisasterAuthor: Helen AndrewsPublisher: PortfolioPublished: 11/18/2025Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.58dISBN: 9798217184231About the AuthorHelen Andrews is a senior editor at The American Conservative. Previously, she was the managing editor of the Washington Examiner magazine and a 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow....
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A Woman Appeared to MeAppearing here together for the first time in English, in an exquisite translation by Brian Stableford, are the two markedly different novels issued by Renée Vivien under the title of A Woman Appeared to Me.First published in 1904 and 1905, these masterpieces of symbolist...
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Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the WorldFor thirty years Anne Enright--one of our greatest living novelists (Times)--has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enright's career, take us...
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A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier WritingAs Kurt Vonnegut, Indiana's most famous writer, once remarked, "Wherever you go, there is always a Hoosier doing something important there."A Flame Called Indiana features 65 writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have all had the pleasure of being Hoosiers at one time...
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The New ManThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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