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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Image and Imagination: Essays and ReviewsThis selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and Imagination', is published for the first time. Taken together,...
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Q&A Four-Year Journey for CouplesLooking for a new adventure in your relationship?We have the perfect travel themed question a day for you This 4 year journey book takes you & your partner on the adventure of a lifetime. Wind down each evening together & complete the question/prompt of...
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Rituals: An anthology of poetry and nonfiction exploring the presence and significance of ritualAn anthology of poetry and nonfiction exploring the presence and significance of ritualGrinding beans for a morning cup of coffee, taking your medicine, or reciting a prayer-rituals are the clockwork meditations in our lives. The writers of this anthology explore what it means to...
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Rabbit StoriesRabbit is a trickster in Cherokee stories. He makes wagers, he talks his way out of being eaten and he is generally an unreliable being. I've always had a soft spot for him. He is thought to be an inspiration for the Brer Rabbit...
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27 Views of Durham: The Bull City in Prose & PoetryAn anthology of Durham writers writing about their hometown, 27 Views of Durham creates a literary montage of the Bull City. In essays, poems, short stories, and anthem, the collection creates a sense of place, present and past.Contributors include Ariel Dorfman, Jim Wise, Barry...
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Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage from Paris to MarseillesAutonauts of the Cosmoroute is a travelogue, a love story, an irreverent collection of visual and verbal snapshots. In May 1982, Julio Cort zar and Carol Dunlop climbed aboard Fafner, their VW camper van, and embarked on an exploration of the uncharted territory of...
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Dear Mary: Letters Home from the 10th Mountain Division (1944-1945)Sydney M. Williams, Jr., joined the American army in 1944 and served in the 10th Mountain Division in Italy until his release in 1945. All during that time he wrote letters home to his beloved wife, Mary. This collection includes correspondence with other family...
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Edge of Awe: Experiences of the Malheur-Steens CountryThis compelling anthology gathers together personal impressions of the Malheur-Steens country of southeastern Oregon, known for its birding opportunities, its natural beauty and remoteness, and, more recently, for the 2016 armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Contributors of poetry and narrative nonfiction...
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Disequilibria: Meditations on MissingnessWinner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction PrizeDisequilibria: Meditations on Missingness is a hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author's stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family's experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader...
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The Best Read Naturalist: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. "The Best Read Naturalist" fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson's lesser-known pieces of...
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Portraits and ObservationsFrom the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), In Cold Blood, and The Complete Stories Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Works Include: Romeo and Juliet; The Taming of the Shrew; The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; Hamlet; A Midsum"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed." --William ShakespeareArm yourself with this volume from the Charwell Classic series, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, including 17 comedies, 10 histories, 10 tragedies, 154 sonnets, and 4 narrative...
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Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other AnimalsWilliams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the natural world.Author: Joy WilliamsPublisher: Lyons PressPublished: 10/10/2015Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70dISBN: 9780762796502
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Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters--And One Man's Search to Find ThemAndrew Carroll spent three years traveling throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during American wars. Behind the Lines is the result of that extraordinary trip and represents the first book of...
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TeaIt's 1968. Himiko Hamilton struggles in a graceless marriage in a country that is not her own. Having come from Japan at the end of World War II and landed in a small Kansas town because of her marriage to an American soldier, she...
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Wild Ducks Flying BackwardKnown for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins's shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper's, from Playboy to the New York Times. Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations--and even some untypical country-music lyrics--offer a...
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The Best American Essays 2014"A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating." -- Publishers WeeklyThe Best American Essays 2014 is...
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Medea: A New TranslationRenowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice.The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A...
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The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and the Shield of HeraklesIn this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the poems and...
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The Kinematics of Machinery: Outlines of a Theory of MachinesThis classic work explores the kinematics of machinery, chronicling the discovery and application of principles underlying the controlled movements within machines. Franz Reuleaux, the Father of Kinematics, writes with authority and precision about his original and incisive ideas, which have endured for more than...
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