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.
-
In Praise of ShadowsAn essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the...
- $28.68 USD
$46.99 USD- $28.68 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at ColonusThe heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the...
- $29.14 USD
$55.99 USD- $29.14 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Upstream: Selected EssaysOne of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. "There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Things in Nature Merely GrowYiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. "There is no good way to say this," Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. "There is no good way to state these facts, which...
- $44.57 USD
$85.99 USD- $44.57 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The OdysseyComposed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.This fresh, authoritative translation...
- $37.90 USD
$67.99 USD- $37.90 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Writing, the Other Life: Texts and Art by and about Annie ErnauxWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and 24 unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence. Drawings, photos, handwritten manuscripts, and other visual materials make this a beautiful...
- $42.00 USD
- $42.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
When the Sky Falls: A Human History of Shooting Stars'A burst of brilliance' - Cal Flyn 'Made me look at the night sky in a completely different way.' - Will Millard When the Sky Falls is a global cultural history of shooting stars spanning from the prehistoric to the present day, and exploring...
- $27.00 USD
- $27.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
We Exist in the Whisper: Huelga School VersesAuthor: Lupe MendezPublisher: Not AvailPublished: 03/31/2026Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70dISBN: 9798893750300About the AuthorLUPE MENDEZ, the 2022-2023 Texas Poet Laureate, is the author of Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award...
- $21.54 USD
- $21.54 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Thurber's DogsREDISCOVER THIS BELOVED COLLECTION of James Thurber's best tales and drawings about dogs and their men, women, and children in 24 stories, profiles, and essays. "Only a few books have stayed with me through all the moves and upheavals of adult life, but Thurber's...
- $30.00 USD
- $30.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Leaving Gene: Essays on Staying, Going, and the Cost of BothAt fifty-two, Huck Smith has built a life that works. The bills get paid. The dog gets walked. The groceries get bought. And still, one question keeps following him: What does it mean to be someone who leaves?The Leaving Gene is a darkly funny,...
- $20.38 USD
- $20.38 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Annotated Two Years Before the MastA true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana's classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard...
- $38.34 USD
- $38.34 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Silas Marner: The Weaver of RaveloeFalsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills fifteen monotonous years with weaving and accumulating gold. The...
- $10.72 USD
- $10.72 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and HopeA poignant, moving essay collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of You Exist Too Much. Fewer and fewer Palestinians living in the diaspora today have direct...
- $38.40 USD
- $38.40 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other EssaysA beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing. Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? Written by English...
- $19.20 USD
- $19.20 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
How to Switch OffHow can we relax and switch off in today's frantic world? What would a classic author's version of mindfulness be? How to Switch Off combines self-help and sage advice, bringing the best of classic wisdom to modern readers. Find out how to slow down...
- $19.18 USD
- $19.18 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Hotel Casanova: And Other Brief TextsIn twelve short texts written between 1984 and 2006, here is Annie Ernaux at her most incisive and intimate, presenting readers with yet another new experience of the razor's edge of the author's sensibility, this time in the form of brief works of fiction...
- $22.74 USD
- $22.74 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Home Economics: Fourteen EssaysIn Home Economics, Berry explores what it means to make oneself "responsibly at home." As he argues, a measure of the health of the planet is economics--the health of its households. "Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of...
- $20.34 USD
- $20.34 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Fancy Work: Unpicking Past LivesWhat can a scrap of embroidery tell us about how to live? How can the past help us imagine unconstrained lives when not all traces remain? To explore these questions, Alice Hattrick turns to the embroidery designer May Morris and her circle, including her...
- $23.94 USD
- $23.94 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Dead and Alive: EssaysNamed a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, and Kirkus Reviews - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 "Smart, somber . . . There's pleasure in watching a novelist wired to see all sides at once wrangle...
- $24.00 USD
- $24.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Catch Your Falling Star: Special EditionAuthor: Christiane BanksPublisher: FriesenPressPublished: 09/29/2026Pages: 174Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781038381224About the AuthorBanks, Christiane: - "Christiane Banks elegantly assembles a diverse collection of intimate stories that evoke a myriad of emotions. From joy to melancholy, these personal narratives invite compassion,...
- $33.58 USD
- $33.58 USD
- Unit price
- per