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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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Third SeriesThe Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden editions guide you to a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream provides a clear and authoritative...
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What's Wrong with the WorldDuring his lifetime, British author and thinker G.K. Chesterton gained a reputation as a top-rate intellectual and social critic. In this volume, Chesterton turns his attention to a series of major problems facing the world at the turn of the twentieth century, offering his...
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What Are You Waiting For?: An AnthologyThis poignant collection of essays, poetry, and artwork invites readers to reconsider what it means to wait. We all know the small, everyday waits-waiting for a plane to arrive, the workday to end, or a doctor to open the exam room door. But the...
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Unraveling Threads: Essays on InheritanceA memoir-in-essays that, in its exploration of language, family ties, and Taiwanese history, distills how the handmade holds memory, inheritance, and the work of caretaking. "Tactile memory feels like it is the easiest to lose," brenda Lin writes in Unraveling Threads. But in these...
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Unintended Consequences: New editionUnintended Consequences is a controversial 1996 novel by John Ross, an American gun rights activist and former Democratic congressional candidate from Missouri. The book blends historical fact with fiction to explore the evolution of gun culture, rights, and control in the United States from...
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The Taming of the ShrewEminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this scathing account of manners and matrimony--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including: - an original Introduction to The Taming of the Shrew- incisive scene-by-scene synopsis...
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The Mass Explained to ChildrenThe Mass Explained to Children presents the beauty, depth, and simplicity of the traditional Latin Mass, helping to make it easily understandable for any and every child. With acute sensitivity to the purity and clarity of a child's mind and soul, Maria Montessori wisely...
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: One-Volume Compact - Second EditionAuthor: Joseph BlackPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 08/07/2025Pages: 1824Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.88lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.80w x 1.57dISBN: 9781554817030About the AuthorJoseph Black, University of Massachusetts Kate Flint, University of Southern California Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta Wendy Lee, New York University Don LePan, Broadview Press Roy...
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Still Floating: 40 Years of PennywiseIn September of 1986, Stephen King published IT, a sprawling 1,138 page novel that he later dubbed in an interview his "final exam on horror." IT follows the lives of seven friends who battle an ageless evil in their small hometown of Derry, Maine....
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Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and TalesIn this deeply personal book, Elizabeth Alexander gives us profound and galvanizing lessons from culture and life to move through challenging times. In close readings of visionary and beloved poets and writers--Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, and June Jordan, among others--Dr....
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, the PersiansAeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness...
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Postmuslim: A TestimonyAn ambitious and timely essay collection exploring what it means to be Arab-Muslim in the twenty-first centuryPostmuslim, Youssef Rakha's debut essay collection, tells the story of Islam's clash with the West in the last thirty years from a perspective rarely available to the Western...
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On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy"Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic."--Robert Lowell Two important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate--now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author For Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual,...
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More: Sexual Fantasies by AnonymousThe daring follow-up to the #1 bestseller Want, presenting an extraordinary new collection of letters that reveal the unfiltered desires and sexual fantasies of anonymous women across the globe"Am I a bad person? Or am I allowed to wonder 'what if'?""Is this kind of...
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Fires: Essays, Poems, StoriesFrom "one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time" (The Philadelphia Inquirer)--comes more than sixty stories, poems, and essays, including two early versions from the seminal collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. "Show[s] the enormous talent...
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Essays"Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality... politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not)...It's a treat to hear him speak his curious mind."--O MagazineIn these beautiful essays, Wallace Shawn takes...
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Early Writings (Pound, Ezra): Poems and ProseEzra Pound makes his Penguin Classics debut with this unique selection of his early poems and prose, edited with an introductory essay and notes by Pound expert Ira Nadel. The poetry includes such early masterpieces as "The Seafarer," "Homage to Sextus Propertius," "Hugh Selwyn...
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Wives and DaughtersWives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels...
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Wild Work: Adventures of Women Field BiologistsInspiring and entertaining stories of wildlife, wild places, and wild adventures by women field biologists More than 40 real-life adventure stories by 37 women field biologists Takes readers behind the scenes with wolves, condors, bats, bears, and other wild animals Highlights the important work...
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The Merry Wives of WindsorThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. In this...
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