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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The Folded Clock: A DiaryA New York Times Notable Book Rereading her childhood diaries, Heidi Julavits hoped to find incontrovertible proof that she was always destined to be a writer. Instead, they "revealed me to possess the mind of a phobic tax auditor." Thus was born a desire...
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The Adding MachineSheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining.--Chicago Sun-Times Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as possibly the only American writer of genius, William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes...
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Redes Literarias: Antologia del Texto Hispanico En Su Contexto Historico-CulturalEsta nueva antologia literaria--dirigida a estudiantes del tercer o cuarto ano de un programa de espanol universitario--abarca poesia, prosa narrativa, drama y ensayo de autores espanoles, latinoamericanos, y latinos. Las lecturas estan organizadas cronologicamente y cada seleccion esta acompanada por una introduccion a su...
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Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. NeumeyerAuthor: Edward GoreyPublisher: Pomegranate CommunicationsPublished: 11/08/2011Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.48lbsSize: 8.96h x 7.14w x 1.22dISBN: 9780764959479Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/26/2011Foreword 11/17/2011This title is not returnable
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Every Day a Word Surprises Me & Other Quotes by WritersAdvice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest writers - exclusively researched for this new bookFeaturing the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by writers through the ages and across the globe, Every Day a Word Surprises Me is the ideal...
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Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, and the In-BetweenIn Fire Girl, her debut collection of essays, Sayantani Dasgupta examines her personal story against the history, religion, popular culture and mythology of South Asia and her current home in the American West. Praise for Fire Girl These are exquisite essays, filled with savory...
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Aging: An ApprenticeshipNan Narboe's 56 thoughtfully selected essays offer an intimate and lyrical account of aging through the decades. Authors Judy Blume, Andrew McCarthy, Gloria Steinem, Donald Hall, David Shields, Ursula K. Le Guin and others draw from their own experiences, describing a specific decade's losses...
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Romeo and JulietBlakemore Evans' performance history helps readers visualize the stage action of Romeo and Juliet and alerts them to difficulties in language, thought and staging. For this updated edition Thomas Moisan adds an account of important professional theatre productions and the large output of scholarly...
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Rings of Continuous FunctionsDesigned as a text as well as a treatise for active mathematicians, this volume begins with an unusual notice: The book is addressed to those who know the meaning of each word in the title. As such, it constituted the first systematic account of...
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Essays on Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bertrand Russell, Aung San Suu Kyi & Nadezhda TolokonnikInexpensive but substantial, this anthology ranges from Henry David Thoreau's great nineteenth-century polemics Civil Disobedience and Slavery in Massachusetts to more recent writings by Aung San Suu Kyi as well as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of the subversive Russian rock group Pussy Riot.Additional selections include Leo...
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky MountainsA cosmopolitan, middle-aged Englishwoman touring the Rocky Mountains in 1873, Isabella Bird had embarked upon a trip that called for as much stamina as would have been expected of an explorer or anthropologist -- and she was neither Possessing a prodigious amount of curiosity...
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Life on the MississippiHe was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of...
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Chopin's LettersNothing could be more spontaneous and ebullient than Chopin's letters. -- BooksPerhaps no composer's letters are so kindred to his music, and reminiscent of the impression produced by it, as Chopin's are. -- The New York TimesThis superbly edited selection of nearly 300 of...
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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; AntigoneA collection that includes the complete texts of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone--translated by Paul Roche. Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of...
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A Barthes ReaderA Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to...
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and ShopIn this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers, 84 known authors pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes. In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their...
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What on Earth Have I Done?My house in Seattle is across the street from an elementary school. A high fence blocks my view, but I'm close enough to overhear conversations. One morning...I heard a car door opened, then slammed shut...a woman's voice came blasting over the fence: BILLY...WHAT...ON...EARTH...HAVE...YOU...DONE?...My own...
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The Paris Review Interviews, III: The Indispensable Collection of Literary WisdomI have all the copies of The Paris Review and like the interviews very much. They will make a good book when collected and that will be very good for the Review.--Ernest Hemingway Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given...
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The AwakeningThis critical edition of Kate Chopin's The Awakening presents the classic novel alongside critical essays assembled from the perspectives of feminism, gender, and historical, deconstructionist, and reader response criticism to enhance your connection to the issues within the novel.Author: Kate ChopinPublisher: Bedford BooksPublished: 12/29/1999Pages:...
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Kojiki: An Account of Ancient MattersJapan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its ancient past. Gustav Heldt's engaging new...
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