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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Insect ArchitectureA poet's search for places to belong and thrive as a mixed-race person.Highlighting the daily realities of intersectional identity, Alex Wells Shapiro's INSECT ARCHITECTURE examines the environments--urban, built, literary, implied, or denied--where the poet might find a place to thrive as a mixed-race person....
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What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology,...
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Little Astronaut: A Memoir in EssaysMaryann grows up alone within a family of six, shrouded by her sister's anorexia, her brother's cancer, and her mother's affair with alcohol. With her childhood consumed by her sister's eating disorder, she braces for a future fraught with loss. Sinking deep into depression...
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The Poetics of WrongnessThe Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016. Devastating in their revelations, yet hopeful in their endurance, these are lectures of protest and reckoning. Zucker declares...
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Little LivesThere is magic in the incantatory, free-flowing poems of Martha Readyoff's Little Lives. In these poems, the natural world is both vibrantly real and enchantingly fanciful. And we find here a passion for all that is vulnerable in the world, the little lives of...
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Augustine's Soliloquies in Old English and in LatinA new edition featuring Saint Augustine's dialogue on immortality from a tenth-century Latin manuscript, accompanied by an Old English vernacular adaptation translated into modern English for the first time in a hundred years. Around the turn of the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted...
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20 Japanese Short Stories for Travelers and Learners Read Japanese Mystery Stories for Beginners20 Japanese Short Stories for Travelers and Learners Read Japanese Mystery Stories for BeginnersLearning Japanese is hard and everyone says so. But not with this book. Whether you're just starting out or are already familiar with the Japanese language, this book will help you...
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The Red SorcererThe Red Sorcerer, originally published as a 64-part feuilleton serial in Le Journal between 31 July 1910 and 3 October 1910, and here appearing in English for the first time in an expert translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the more extreme entries...
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Made ManFull of fun and full of anguish, superbly conscious of every rule they break, Jendi Reiter's third poetry collection explores female-to-male transition and gay masculine identity through the voices of unusual objects and fictional characters with some aspect that is constructed, technological, or hybrid....
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Cranial FrackingDispatches from the front lines of American culture by the great humorist Ian Frazier, the two-time winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, has gathered his insights on the most urgent issues of today in Cranial Fracking. From musings on climate change (what...
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Italian Bones in the Snow: A Memoir in ShortsItalian women don't always speak with their hands and cook with cheese. They use their eyes, legs, and fresh parsley too. They race around the kitchen, work a bunch of tasks at once, and get up after being knocked down. Then there's the penchant...
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Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries. Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in...
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Jack London on Adventure"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time," writes Jack London, accurately proclaiming the very ingredients of his full, passionate lifestyle. Bearing a name that...
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The Journals of Andr? Gide, 1889-1949; 1This 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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Die Erleuchteten Fenster: Oder, Die Menschwerdung Des Amtsrates Julius Zihal. RomanThis 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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Cervante's Theory of the NovelThis 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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Not a Soul But Us: A Story in 84 SonnetsWinner of the 2021 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize! In mid-fourteenth century Yorkshire, the plague pandemic wipes out half the inhabitants of a remote village. Left behind is a twelve-year-old shepherd boy, who with the help of his dog survives near-starvation and a...
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Two Swordmasters & Two Women: Chiang Shiao-ho (江小鶴) & Bo Ah-ran (飽阿鸾) Lee Mo-bai (李慕白In this two-part historical novel, the two martial arts masters are the teachers featured in the 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (based on Chinese author Wang Dulu's books). This book offers two interconnected stories about star-crossed lovers in a 19th-century world of Chinese...
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The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and BeyondCase studies of the Garvey Movement in South Africa, Trinidad, Jamaica and elsewhere. Essays on C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, George Padmore, Evangelical Pan-Africanism, the Pan-African Conference of 1900 and other topics.Author: Tony MartinPublisher: Black Classic PressPublished: 04/05/2022Pages: 262Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781574781939
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Every Little Thing: Small Breakthroughs, Big Mistakes, Endless LessonsA fine-tuned, beautiful book that looks with a sharp eye and a generous spirit at one's sense of place as it was in the five years leading up to 2021. And as it is. Now.So much more than a collection of essays, this is...
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