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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Queer Communion: Religion in AppalachiaAuthor: Davis ShouldersPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 10/21/2025Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781985902961Review Citation(s): Foreword 08/25/2025About the AuthorShoulders, Davis: - Davis Shoulders is an indie bookseller from East Tennessee. They have previously worked at Politics & Prose in Washington,...
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Present Concerns: Journalistic EssaysA repackaged edition of the revered author's essays in which he deliberates on contemporary issues, from the moral to the spiritual to the practical.C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters,...
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Paradise Lost: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized for student readers. An illuminating introduction and abundant explanatory annotations by Gordon Teskey. Source...
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Our Sense of Gratitude: For Christopher RicksThis collection honors Christopher Ricks, the eminent textual editor and literary critic and one of the founders of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (ALSCW), an organization thirty-one years young. In the capacious spirit of the ALSCW, this festschrift is a core...
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Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing"Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and weight to those forgotten women whose suffering has become...
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Love Will Save Us, Right?: A MemoirA tender, funny, stunningly candid memoir about the joys and challenges of parenting a neurodivergent young adult that reads like a heady concoction of Dorothy Allison, Anne Lamott, Alison Bechdel and David Sedaris."This book sparkles with life, humor and infinite chutzpah."--Michelle Tea, author of...
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Kojiki: Fully Revised Edition: Records of Ancient Matters (Revised and with a New Foreword)The classic story of Japan's origins--now in a fully revised and reader-friendly edition. The Kojiki is Japan's oldest surviving text, chronicling the mythical creation of the Japanese islands, the origins of the imperial family, and the early development of Shinto, Japan's indigenous religion. A...
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Just Before DarkJim Harrison's essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW. They explore the passions and concerns of a classic American writer: ice fishing and bar pool, nouvelle...
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other EssaysA collection of "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" (The Atlantic) how-to essays that highlight the absurdities of modern life, from the author of The Name of the RoseHow to Travel With a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his...
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Henry David Thoreau and the Nick of Time: Temporality and Agency in Thoreau's Era and OursAuthor: Kathryn C. DolanPublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.37w x 0.83dISBN: 9780881460735About the AuthorKATHRYN C. DOLAN is professor of English at Missouri University of Science and Technology, publishing articles on Thoreau in HENRY DAVID THOREAU IN CONTEXT and...
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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black SurvivalNaturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics that range from Black farmers' domestication of the unforgettable...
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Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack SpicerCollected correspondence showcases the dazzling intelligence of an iconic American writerThe more than 300 letters collected in Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared are a crucial component of Jack Spicer's unique oeuvre, and they radiate with the brilliance, ferocity, and vulnerability that characterizes his...
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Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New WestIn these new and selected essays, Mark Sundeen recounts two decades of political activism, outdoor exploration, and empathetic curiosity. He was both witness to and active participant in pivotal cultural and political events of the new millennium, from Howard Dean's presidential campaign to the...
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Dead and Alive: Essays"Smart, somber...There's pleasure in watching a novelist wired to see all sides at once wrangle with her own dynamic subjectivity." - The New York Times Book Review A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays In this...
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Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena"Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens." The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In the...
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Condolence book to sign (Hardback cover)Book of condolence, memory book, ideal item for guests to write down their memories and thoughts, can be filled with comments and memories. This hardback book has a matt finish, filled with 60 lined pages with space for guests to leave a message, size...
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Charles Dickens: A LifeAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles...
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Chamomile CloudsChamomile clouds is a book of heart-crafted poetry that was birthed from the author's life experiences of love, loss, joy, and the pursuit of peace and acceptance. These raw and organic poems are relatable and will give hope at the turn of every page.Author:...
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Cape CodThoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea, with an introduction by Paul Theroux Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau's journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of...
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Campfire Stories: Chesapeake Bay: Tales & Travel CompanionImmerse yourself in a unique blend of literature and lore about Chesapeake Bay, including classic passages, original essays, poems, and natural history Curated story collections explore the rich and diverse legacies of Chesapeake Bay Contributors include Tiya Miles, Annie Marhefka, Gilbert Byron, Tom Wisner,...
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