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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Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 - 2023Essays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India's preeminent writers. "I'm an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again, I don't write about India. I'm not interested in...
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Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a TheologianFrom award-winning authors and Yale Divinity School colleagues Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf--two world-renowned scholars exchange letters on the problems of faith today and the presence of divine love that persists through it all. Whether you're seeking something to believe in or no longer...
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Foxes for Everybody: Twenty-Four Hours of Early MotherhoodMeditations on time, motherhood, and the ordinary beauty of everyday life Like a newborn's patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don't follow a reasonable schedule, and there's no clocking out. Organized around the hours of the day, Foxes for Everybody gives...
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Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's SagaThe first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.Author: D. O. FagunwaPublisher: City Lights BooksPublished: 09/24/2013Pages: 153Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60dISBN: 9780872866300Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/26/2013About the AuthorAbout D.O....
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Five Moral PiecesEmbracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in today's world....
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Essential Muir (Revised): A Selection of John Muir's Best (and Worst) WritingsA new edition of Muir's writings that places his environmentalist ideals alongside his damaging prejudices Essayist. Preservationist. Mountain man. Inventor. John Muir may be California's best-known icon. A literary naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club and Yosemite National Park, Muir left his legacy...
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Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural AnthologyFollowing in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America, this collection of twenty-four stories from around the world is a wonderful introduction to literature rarely available to American readers. Editors Faith Adiele and Mary Frosch magnificently chart the global quest...
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Black Joy Unbound: An AnthologyInspired by a deep longing for writing that embodies the vivacity of Blackness and Black life, Black Joy Unbound is a multi-genre collection that encompasses a broad spectrum of literary writing on Black joy.Contributors: Maria Hamilton AbegundeAshia AjaniStephanie Andrea AllenÀjọkẹ́ Bọ́dúndé́Akua Lezli HopeAudrey WilliamsAzaria...
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A Hope Observed: Finding Solace Through Shared Stories of GriefIn the midst of overwhelming or lingering grief, sometimes the only comfort is knowing that you're not alone. This courageously honest, beautifully designed book offers solace through shared stories of loss. Our grief is our own, as unique as a fingerprint, as fragile as...
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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian ReaderClarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha...
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The Poetic Edda"She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish." After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The...
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Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers (Free Audio Download)Short stories by Japan's cutting-edge writers, in vertical text and with vocabulary, notes, and FREE AUDIO DOWNLOAD to make reading Japanese easier than ever. Long-awaited by teachers and students, Read Real Japanese Fiction presents short works by six of today's most daring and provocative...
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NKJV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Burgundy, Red Letter EditionThe Thomas Nelson NKJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable...
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Mysteries of Small Houses: PoemsA Pulitzer Prize Finalist Winner of the Los Angeles Time Book Prize An autobiographical collection of poetry by Alice Notley, "One of America's greatest poets" (Poetry Foundation) Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant collection of...
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Love Sonnets of ShakespeareCarry the Bard with you wherever you go with this illustrated miniature hardcover gift of Shakespeare's sonnets. This is the perfect miniature gift for any poetry or drama history lover. Once it blooms, it changes everything. Love is uplifting, enlightening, transforming. In this timeless...
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Life After Ambition: A Good Enough MemoirChanneling the subversive and sharp-eyed voice showcased in her popular column for The Cut, Amil Niazi stylishly interrogates the aspirations of young adulthood, early middle age, motherhood, and life after ambition. Building off her wildly popular viral essays "Losing My Ambition" and "The Mindfuck...
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Herodotus: Histories Book VIIHerodotus' Histories are the primary source for the conflict between Greece and the enormous Persian Empire in the fifth century BC. Book VII begins after the defeat of the first Persian invasion by Athens at the Battle of Marathon and covers the Persian decision...
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French Stories/Contes Francais: A Dual-Language Book: Ten Short Stories by Voltaire, Balzac, Gilde, Camus and Others in the Original French and a New"The selections are good and the translations are excellent." ― Germaine Brée, New York UniversityDrawn from two centuries of French literature, these superb selections by ten great writers span a wide variety of styles, philosophies, and literary creeds. The stories reflect not only the...
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A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for Essays What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of these? Or something else entirely? The works in...
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A Dream of StoneA selection of texts on art and artists by the Belgian French novelist and essayist Marguerite Yourcenar Best known for her seminal novel Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), an imagined autobiography of the Roman emperor, Yourcenar brings the same depth of inquiry and inventive speculation...
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