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 Discourse on the Origin of InequalityGenevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential figures of the 18th century. His political philosophy has been pointed to as a major contributing factor in causing the French Revolution. Social and economic inequality has been a pervasive element of human existence...
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A Certain Idea of America: Selected WritingsFrom Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America. For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been thinking aloud about America in her much-loved Wall Street Journal column. In...
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Zack Jones: Fisherman-PhilosopherZack Jones: Fisherman-Philosopher is a book written by Helen Swift. The book tells the story of Zack Jones, a fisherman who lives in a small coastal town. Zack is not just an ordinary fisherman, he is also a philosopher who loves to ponder the...
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Written LivesIn addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of...
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Whale Hunt: The Narrative of a Voyage by Nelson Cole Haley, Harpooner in the Ship Charles W. Morgan, 1849-1853Whale Hunt, first published in 1948, is a first-hand account of a whaling voyage during the mid-1800s. Author Nelson Cole Haley, harpooner on the ship Charles W. Morgan, details daily life on board the ship, dangers and challenges faced by the crew, interactions with...
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Well Out to Sea: Year-Round on Matinicus IslandEva Murray moved to Matinicus in 1987 to teach in its one-room school. She married an island man and stayed to raise their family there. Over the years she's written a number of lively columns and articles for mainland publications. But, as she says,...
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Walking into GodE.D. Blodgett's final volume of poems, Walking Into God, is the culmination of the poet's lifelong devotion to a poetry and poetics of the sacred. The poems in this volume present as a single long poem that explores the processes of walking, moving, changing,...
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Transformational: Stories of Northern Michigan Arts & CultureTransformational: Stories of Northern Michigan Arts & Culture is part of a Community Partners project led by the Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network, Michigan Writers and Interlochen Public Radio that uses storytelling to explore the role creativity, arts and culture play in furthering...
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Tracks in the SandTracks in the Sand is a collection of essays that maps the contours of a layered life.Outdoorsman and cattle farmer H. Turney McKnight writes about the natural world with the grace of a poet and the ease of a seasoned storyteller. From rivers in...
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To the Goddesses and the Gods: PoemsThese poems have been published in "Active Muse," "The Road Not Taken: A Journal For Formal Verse," in other publications, and in various community journals and anthologies all the way back to the Witchvox poetry section. They range from acts of invocation to fine...
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The TempestThe Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke...
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The Requirements of the Sufi Path: A Defense of the Mystical TraditionSufism through the eyes of a legal scholar In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khaldūn applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. Ibn Khaldūn is widely...
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The Prisoner ManifestoAuthor: Nicholas J. ElyPublisher: Best Self PublicationsPublished: 08/05/2024Pages: 374Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77dISBN: 9798990950429This title is not returnable
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The Norton Anthology of English LiteratureFrom the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that demonstrate the relevance of literature to contemporary students and trace the creative arc that has yielded the ever-changing and...
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The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden AgeThe Spanish Golden Age, a cultural narrative that has developed and over four centuries, remains a key element of how Spaniards articulate cultural identities, both within Spain and to the outside world. The Currency of Cultural Patrimony examines the development of this narrative by...
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The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke WhiteThis book is the first-ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling and most revered poets in the nineteenth century--a poet excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. A poor youth who died early from tuberculosis, Kirke White shaped the popular image of the...
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The Bee-Master of WarrilowThe book, The Bee-Master of Warrilow, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole...
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Sure Do Wish You'd Get Ye One Of These Here Taters: An Essay on Cormac McCarthy's SuttreeThis is an essay about Cormac McCarthy's Suttree. Originally written for a class taught by David Foster Wallace, this essay includes an index of all scenes and characters, making it a definitive Suttree reference.Author: William K. GillespiePublisher: Spineless BooksPublished: 09/12/2020Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize:...
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Rockefeller Internationalist: The Man Who Misrules The WorldAt The Present Time There Is No Important Foundation In This Country That Is Not Controlled, Usually Directly But Sometimes Indirectly, By The Rockefellers Or Their Agents, To Be Converted To The Propaganda, Conspiracies And Other Uses Of The Rockefeller Empire.Author: Emanuel M. JosephsonPublisher:...
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Psyche's Art (1858)Psyche's Art is a novel written by Louisa May Alcott and published in 1858. The story revolves around a young girl named Psyche, who is a talented artist but struggles to find her place in the world. She is raised by her father, a...
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