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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The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold BloomA selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an...
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The Color WheelThe Color Wheel is a collection of 117 poems by 117 poets. The collection includes such poets as Kim Addonizio, Ted Kooser, Alice Friman, Alberto Rios, Paulann Petersen, Betsy Sholl, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Sydney Lea, and Dorianne Laux. Each poem makes strategic use of color....
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Since You're Mortal . . .: Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays"The truly happy man ought to stay at home.""Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love.""Hades, alone of the gods, does not enjoy bribes."These quotes and many others from the great Greek dramatists, including Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Menander, were preserved long after...
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Every Broken Angel: A Southern story of silence, shame and sacred reckoningEvery Broken Angel is a haunting Southern gothic novel about inheritance-of silence, of shame, and of the choices that echo long after a life ends.Born into a world where women are expected to endure and never speak, Ruby Amsler grows up in the Ozarks...
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A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural WorldPulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.In A Third Commonness, US Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography--from Zen Buddhism to California ecopoetics, from Barry Lopez to Walt...
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Ways of Telling"Ways of Telling isn't like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at the keyhole, the ear at the door? It is its own thing."--Margaret Atwood "Fractured, haunting, intimate and totally original, Ways of Telling knocked the breath out of me. It's...
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United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and HopeThis is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a nation and its people. Although we're taught not to care about others' opinions,...
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To See BeyondA globe-spanning essay collection on the human condition from the author James McBride calls "one of the most creative and important nonfiction writers in our era"Our hyper-informed digital era of climate catastrophe, historically unmatched migration, and genocide confronts us with a terrible conundrum: the...
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The Life of Mary as Seen by the MysticsGenerations of devout Catholics, including many learned theologians and writers, have derived great spiritual benefits from a careful reading of the private revelations here compiled, those of Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich and Ven. Mary of Agreda, primarily, along with those of St. Bridget of...
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Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The CherryorchardFive masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull--now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Moss, and Annette Bening At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new...
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Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic WestA lyric exploration of the complicated shared legacy of the atomic west through the lens of family history and the aftermath of the Manhattan Project. Ty Bannerman's family came to Los Alamos in 1952 to build nuclear bombs. This fact has become their origin...
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No Contact: Writers on Estrangement"A landmark work around a theme so prominent--and yet so thoroughly ignored--in modern life." --Ocean Vuong A poignant and galvanizing anthology that illuminates the realities and nuances of family estrangement, with pieces by Stephanie Foo, Nick Flynn, Deesha Philyaw, Cheryl Strayed, and others Estrangement...
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My Heart & I AgreeFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Lucy Sante (I Heard Her Call My Name), a new collection of essays and reflections, mixing memoir with incisive writing about photography, music, literature, and film.Here she learns to dance by watching Soul Train, dissects the image of the cowboy,...
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams"A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to...
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Mamá, Quiero Escuchar Tu Historia: Un Diario Guiado Para Que Mamá Comparta Su Vida Y Su AmorLa colección oficial de Hear Your Story(R)Da a mamá el regalo de ser conocida de verdad. Mamá, Quiero Escuchar tu Historia es más que un diario guiado: es una invitación sincera para que tu mamá pueda reflexionar, recordar y compartir los momentos que dieron...
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in FictionHailed as a "genius-enchantress" (Karen Russell) and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated novelist Andrea Barrett has for decades reached backward to find inspiration from the past and written acclaimed and prizewinning works of historical fiction. In Dust and Light, the first work...
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Dickens in Brooklyn: Essays on Family, Writing, and MadnessDickens in Brooklyn is a virtuoso collection of unusual, compelling essays in which critically acclaimed and award-winning author Jay Neugeboren explores experiences that have been central to his life: caring long-term for a brother with mental illness; finding and connecting with long-lost family members;...
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Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines: The Cat in Folklore, Myth, and LegendCurious Cats and Fantastical Felines gives an intriguing insight into the historical relationship between cats and humans by exploring the folklore, myths, and legends that relate to cats from around the globe. For thousands of years, cats and humankind have been inextricably intertwined. From...
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Common Sense: Thomas PaineCommon Sense by Thomas Paine. Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let...
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A Taste of Honey: a PlayThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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