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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Zapatista Stories for Dreaming an Other WorldIn this gorgeous collection of allegorical stories, Subcomandante Marcos, idiosyncratic spokesperson of the Zapatistas, has provided "an accidental archive" of a revolutionary group's struggle against neo-liberalism. For 30 years, the Zapatistas have influenced and inspired movements worldwide, showing that another world is possible. They...
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of DarknessThe New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author"A light in darkness, Alice Walker awakens us to our own power as only she can. . . . Once again, Walker has exceeded our...
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The Willie Lynch Letter And The Making Of A SlaveThe Willie Lynch Letter and The Making of A Slave is a speech delivered by Willie Lynch to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony. The speaker, William Lynch, is said...
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The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source. "Said is...
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos*An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick**A "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read**An Esquire Best Book of 2023**A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April**A BookRiot Science Book to Add to Your TBR**A Wired Book to Read for Spring**A TODAY Show Summer Book**A Washington...
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The Letters of Seamus HeaneyThe letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet's life and mind. Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery....
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Rosicrucian ManualThis book contains not only extracts from the constitution of the Rosicrucian order, but a complete outline and explanation of all the customs, habits and terminology of the Rosicrucians, with diagrams and explanations of the symbols used in the teachings, an outline of the...
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PhaedrusPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. This new translation is accompanied by an introduction, further reading, and...
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Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977 - September 15, 1979"In the sentence 'She's no longer suffering, ' to what, to whom does 'she' refer? What does that present tense mean?" --Roland Barthes, from his diary The day after his mother's death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. For nearly...
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Luther: Letters of Spiritual CounselMartin Luther is often thought of as a world-shaking figure who defied papacy and empire to introduce a reformation in the teaching, worship, organization, and life of the Church. Sometimes it is forgotten that he was also a pastor and shepherd of souls. Collected...
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How to Read Now: Essays"How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories." "A book that doesn't seek...
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GreenGreen is more than a color; it is a symbol, a feeling, a language spoken across cultures, disciplines, and personal experiences. It evokes the vitality of spring, the sting of envy, the promise of renewal, and the slow decay of time. It is the...
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the FutureAfter kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good...
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Adams Family CorrespondenceA growing tension between the United States and Great Britain permeates the 236 letters printed in Volume 16 of Adams Family Correspondence. The Embargo Act of 1807 cut off trade with the British in response to the harassment of American ships. John and Abigail...
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A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All OutA blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist "At thirty-seven years old I can say Shenequa is a big name and I'm a big, bold woman."...
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Willie Nelson's Letters to AmericaAn intimate collection of fond memories, personal letters, good songs, and bad jokes from a true American legend."This is your old friend, Willie, sending a note to see how you're doing and to say I'm doing fine."In this series of short letters straight from...
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Why Read the Classics?"All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics." --from Why Read the Classics? Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal:...
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We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of MotherhoodWhen Jennifer Case became pregnant unexpectedly with her second child, she was overwhelmed at the prospect of caring for another child in a society with high expectations and low support for mothers. She sought to reclaim control over, if not her changing body, then...
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War and PeaceTolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history...
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Travels in HyperReality"A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our times." --Los Angeles TimesWith the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco entertains and intrigues once again,...
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