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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Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano FortunyFrom the winner of the Booker Prize: A ravishing book that opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are passions of the writer A. S. Byatt. Born a generation apart in...
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Latinas Poderosas!Latinas Poderosas is a book that highlights 50 powerful and influential women. These women are Latinas who are making a difference in the community by redefining the meaning of leadership and changing lives at the same time. Latina Poderosas es un libro sobre 50...
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GUEST BOOK (Hardback), Visitors Book, Guest Comments Book, Vacation Home Guest Book, Cabin Guest Book, Visitor Comments Book, House Guest Book: CommenHARDBACK sleek matte finish cover. Size: 8.5" x 8.5" (216mm x 216 mm) 96 lined white pages Welcome page with space to add your personalized message Left page: Date, Name & Where we are from Right page: Comments (full page) This Guest Book has...
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The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine: Bilingual Edition: English-French**Translation realigned with original, 2014** Jean de La Fontaine was one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. Born in Ch teau-Thierry in 1621, his literary career did not truly begin until he was in his thirties and spending most...
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Muslim American Writers at Home: Stories, Essays and Poems of Identity, Diversity and BelongingThis timely collection allows us to hear firsthand the amazingly diverse voices of North American Muslim writers speaking for themselves. Stereotypes are overturned on every page. Shaped by an impressive interweaving of cultures, languages and ethnicities, these writers reflect on what it means to...
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Listening to the BeesListening to the Bees is a collaborative exploration by two writers to illuminate the most profound human questions: Who are we? Who do we want to be in the world? Through the distinct but complementary lenses of science and poetry, Mark Winston and Ren...
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Notes on Thought and VisionNotes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and the creative process; and a study of gender differences H.D. believed to...
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The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in JournalismFrom the foreword by Geneva Overholser. What is it about really fine writers, how they delight, intrigue, compel us? Style, you say. But style is not something you begin with. Rather, it's what you end up with, a result of far more fundamental traits....
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Roughneck Grace: Farmer Yoga, Creeping Codgerism, Apple Golf, and Other Brief Essays from on and Off the Back FortyNew York Times bestselling author, humorist, and newspaper columnist Michael Perry returns with a new collection of bite-sized essays from his Sunday Wisconsin State Journal column, "Roughneck Grace." Perry's perspectives on everything from cleaning the chicken coop to sharing a New York City elevator...
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Living a Country Year: Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old DaysJerry App's farm stories open the barn door to understanding life in the country. "Even with the all the hard work, we had more time (perhaps we took more time) to enjoy what was all around us: nights filled with starlight, days with clear...
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The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [With CDROM]For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. Now, with the changing needs of today's...
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The Yom Kippur AnthologyBack by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the...
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In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969The private journals of renowned novelist and critic Samuel R. DelanyFor fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present volume - the first...
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Colonialism and the Emergence of Science FictionGroundbreaking study of science fiction's relation to colonialism and imperialismThis is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science fiction's relation to the history, discourses, and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism. Nearly all scholars and critics of early science fiction acknowledge that colonialism is...
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Selections from the Art of Party Crashing in Medieval IraqHe's fond of anyone who throws a party;he's always at a party in his dreams, for party-crashing's blazoned on his heart . . .a prisoner to the path of fi ne cuisine. With this statement, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, a Muslim preacher and scholar, introduces The...
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The 50s: The Story of a DecadeThis engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia--featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the...
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Portraits and ObservationsPerhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative...
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The Bagnios of Algiers and the Great Sultana: Two Plays of CaptivityBest known today as the author of Don Quixote--one of the most beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition--Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well. After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the 1580s,...
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The Battle of the Huertgen ForestIn September 1944, three months after the invasion of Normandy, the Allied armies prepared to push the German forces back into their homeland. Just south of the city of Aachen, elements of the U.S. First Army began an advance through the imposing Huertgen Forest....
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70. Sulpicius Severus: The Complete WorksVolume 70 in the Ancient Christian Writers series offers the first complete English translation since the late nineteenth century of the works of Sulpicius Severus, an early fifth-century Gallic writer. Although Sulpicius is primarily known for his two works on Saint Martin of Tours...
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