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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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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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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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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What GrowsWith a desire to explore the nine Fruits of the Spirit through story, poetry, and image, Paul Asjes has curated a literary collection that ranges from science fiction to motorcycles, and from the safe confines of a schoolhouse to a brutal kick in the...
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The Narrative PoemsThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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Nrsv, Catholic Bible, Journal Edition, Leathersoft, Brown, Comfort Print: Holy BibleThe full Catholic canon with wide margins allow for plenty of journaling and note-taking space making this a perfect Bible to study and engage with Scripture.Pope Francis has said of the Bible, "Take it, carry it with you and read it every day: It...
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Yi Sang: Selected WorksWinner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of world literature in the early twentieth...
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When the President Calls: Conversations with Economic PolicymakersInterviews with thirty-five economic policymakers who advised presidents from Nixon to Trump. What is it like to sit in the Oval Office and discuss policy with the president? To know that the decisions made will affect hundreds of millions of people? To know that...
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