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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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: EssaysCelebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the "best prose written in this country." More than perhaps any...
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Sun and SteelIn this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them.At one level, it...
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The Myth of SisyphusA Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation...
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Notes to JohnINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue NightsIn November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had "a rough few years."...
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The Fire Next TimeNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s--and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - "The finest essay I've ever read." --Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James...
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No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven TerrainNew York Times Bestseller In the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty. Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can...
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet"Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition--and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention." --Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re: ThinkingThe instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author...
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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...
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If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale."This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family. The renowned...
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Ioläus: An Anthology of FriendshipIoläus: An Anthology of FriendshipThe degree to which Friendship, in the early history of the world, has been recognised as an institution, and the dignity ascribed to it, are things hardly realized to-day. Yet a very slight examination of the subject shows the important...
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Turkish Literature Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres, and Sacred TraditionsTurkish Literature; Comprising Fables, Belles-lettres, and Sacred TraditionsTHE national literature of Turkey is something with which the European and American mind is by no means familiar, and, indeed, it has only recently become a distinctive feature in the worlds intellectual activity. Turkey is really...
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Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caueat, Haben's Sermon, &cAwdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caueat, Haben's Sermon, &c.If the ways and slang of Vagabonds and Beggars interested Martin Luther enough to make him write a preface to the Liber Vagatorum1 in 1528, two of the ungodly may be excused for caring, in 1869,...
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The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir for 1852The Iris: An Illuminated Souvenir for MDCCCLIICaptain Eastman, of the United States Topographical Corps, having been stationed for nine years on our northwestern frontier, among the Indian tribes, at and around Fort Snelling, made a series of drawings of some of the most striking...
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The best for mothersA Mother's Year BookThis little volume has been compiled for mothers and is lovingly offered as a tribute to the memory of the almost perfect mother whose love cradled my own childhood so sweetly as to make all motherhood forever more dear to me....
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The Book-Lovers' AnthologyThe Book-Lovers' AnthologyOne of the most delightful of the Last Essays of Elia is entitled 'Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading', a title which would serve very well to indicate the contents of this anthology. In bringing together into one volume the tributes and...
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Selected Works of Voltairine de CleyreSelected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre"Nature has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom the truth is sacred;...
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The English Lake DistrictThe English Lake District Mere under mountain lone, like a moat under lowering ramparts; Garrulous petulant beck, sinister laughterless tarn; Haunt of the vagabond feet of my fancy for ever reverting, Haunt of this vagabond heart, Cumbrian valleys and fells; You that enchant all...
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Wisconsin in Story and Song;Wisconsin in Story and Song; - Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Badger State WritersIn preparing this book the editors have had two main purposes in view. Their first purpose has been to furnish some definite knowledge concerning literary productions of Wisconsin people....
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Prairie GoldPrairie Gold This volume, from the land of the singing corn, is offered to the public by the Iowa Press and Authors' Club as the first bit of co-operative work done by Iowa writers. The anticipated needs of the brave men who have given...
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Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2James Newton Baskett, novelist and scientist, was born near Carlisle, Kentucky, November 1, 1849. He was taken to Missouri in early life by his parents. He was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1872, since...
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