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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Homer: The Iliad & the Odyssey (Deluxe Hardbound Edition): Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Culture Homer's Classics Greek Epic Poems Trojan War MythologAn exquisitely designed leather-bound edition with a gold-foiled cover, this omnibus featuring Samuel Butler's translations of the two Homeric epics comes with a ribbon bookmark, gilded edges, and beautiful endpapers. Ideal to be read and treasured, it makes for a perfect addition to any...
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Cicero: de AmicitiaThe De Amicitia is one of Cicero's most carefully crafted philosophical treatises. It offers an excellent introduction both to the eleoquence of his expository prose style and to the ethical values of Roman society during the first century BC. Moreover, many of the issues...
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The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History: 1775-1865The great documents in this important collection helped form the foundation of American democratic government. Compelling, influential, and often inspirational, they range from Patrick Henry's dramatic Give me liberty or give me death speech at the start of the American Revolution to Abraham Lincoln's...
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The Book of Emperors: A Translation of the Middle High German KaiserchronikThe Book of Emperors is the first complete translation of the Kaiserchronik from Middle High German to English.Author: Henry A. MyersPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublished: 05/01/2013Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10dISBN: 9781935978701About the AuthorHenry A. Myers is Professor Emeritus of...
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The Divine ComedyThe importance of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy cannot be overstated. One of the few examples of an epic poem that has lasted the ages, Dante here describes Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven in a way that has shaped both cultures and religious interpretations.Author: Dante...
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The Itinerary Of Benjamin Of Tudela: Critical Text, Translation And Commentary (1907)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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The Heart of Healing a Journal of Remarkable Demonstrations of God's Healing PowerThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Exhibitions: Essays on Art and AtrocityWhat happens when beauty intersects with horror? In her newest nonfiction collection, Jehanne Dubrow interrogates the ethical questions that arise when we aestheticize atrocity. The daughter of US diplomats, she weaves memories of growing up overseas among narratives centered on art objects created while...
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Walking Old Roads: A Memoir of Kindness RediscoveredAuthor: Tammy HadarPublisher: Webe Books PublishingPublished: 06/27/2023Pages: 254Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781955668620
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The Secret GardenMary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life....
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AllegianceEvidence of my life is everywhere.What does it mean to be Chinese American? How are we reflected in the people we love, and us in them? What obligation do we have to those who share our blood, and how does a woman claim her...
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Songs of a Semite: The dance to death and other poemsThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...
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Red Holler: Contemporary Appalachian LiteratureBuy this book, it's a barn burner --Dorothy AllisonIn an extraordinarily diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic narratives by contemporary Appalachian writers, Red Holler takes us over and beyond the stock imagery of rural mountain communities. We travel into housing projects, forest-stripped...
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High Vistas:: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, Volume II, 1900-2009High Vistas is the first anthology devoted to nature and descriptive writing from Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains, inclusive of the Tennessee side of the present day Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Arranged chronologically with annotations, the twenty-one selections in this...
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The Burgess Animal Book for ChildrenThe Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W Burgess is a classic nature story collection for children that contains a number of charming fictitious tales of animals as diverse as the wren and the mole. Burgess's vivid imagination and genuine love of the...
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J. A. Rogers: Selected Writings"No man living has revealed so many important facts about the Negro race as has Rogers," wrote W. E. B. DuBois. Indeed, as Henry Louis Gates Jr. contends, J. A. Rogers was often the only source for an ordinary Black person to learn of...
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The Yemassee: A Romance of CarolinaThis 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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Between Dystopias: The Road to AfropantheologyA captivating collection of original stories and essays by award-winning authors that celebrates the richness and complexity of African mysticism.African literary scholars struggle to reconcile African mysticism with literary labels. Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology encapsulates the essence of African mysticism and dystopia...
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A Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith During His Captivity with the Indians in the Years 1755-1759This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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