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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Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary FriendsAn original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the...
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Collected PoetryA new collection of John Donne's verse, from the witty conceit of The Flea to the intense spirituality of his Divine Poems Regarded by many as the greatest of the metaphysical poets, John Donne was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan...
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Thomas HardyA masterful portrait (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who...
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Letters of Note: FathersA fascinating new volume of messages about fatherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to...
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Even the Stars Look LonesomeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth."--The New York Times Book Review "Everything about Maya Angelou is transcendental. She has something to tell you now. Listen."--Robert Fulghum, The Washington Post Book World I have written of...
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Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life"Somewhere between Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Amy Schumer's stand-up exists Kim Addonizio's style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality." --Refinery29 "Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a...
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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces"One of the most significant literary personalities in the world."--Italo Calvino Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User's Manual, was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced...
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The Me Nobody Knows: Children's Voices from the Ghetto"A round my block there is a lat of glass and food and paper and people fight all the time. I like people to love each other." The ghetto child speaks, and the world emerges as he sees it and as he wishes it...
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Happy-Go-LuckyDavid Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask--or not--was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent...
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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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