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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This Country of Ours"This Country Of Ours" from Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall. British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children (1867-1941).Author: Henrietta Elizabeth MarshallPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 11/03/2015Pages: 364Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.75dISBN: 9781518898365This title is not...
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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 Story GameIn the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immigrant, her feelings about being in a mixed-race...
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The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to PresentJerome Rothenberg's final anthology--an experiment in omnipoetics with Javier Taboada--reaches into the deepest origins of the Americas, north and south, to redefine America and its poetries The Serpent and the Fire breaks out of deeply entrenched models that limit "American" literature to work written...
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The Pilgrim's ProgressA masterpiece of the English Puritan tradition, The Pilgrim's Progress is rich in its imaginative power and its vivid and heartfelt language. It recounts the story of Christian, who appears to the author in a dream, and his journey to Heaven through the trials...
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The Harlem Ghetto: EssaysThis collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century US Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays "The Harlem Ghetto," "Journey to Atlanta," and "Notes of a Native Son" will appeal to...
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The Great GatsbyThe Telemachos Guided Reading Editions of classic novels are designed to encourage educators to teach once again from the unabridged literary treasury of Western Civilization. Each edition provides students-unaccustomed to the sentence structure and vocabulary of novels written over a century ago-a path, alongside...
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular MindGustave Le Bon (1841 - 1931) was a French social psychologist and physicist who wrote some popular works on crowd psychology.Author: Gustave Le BonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 06/16/2014Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20dISBN: 9781500211622This title is not returnable
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The Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne: Introduction by Stuart HampshireA stunning collector's hardcover edition of Michel de Montaigne, the father of the essay. Translated by Donald M. Frame with an Introduction by Stuart Hampshire. Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) was the first to use the term...
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The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and LyricsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks.You can also hear Jim Morrison's final poetry recording, now available for the first time,...
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Nrsv, Catholic Bible, Journal Edition, Cloth Over Board, Blue, Comfort Print: Holy BibleThe full Catholic canon with wide margins allow for plenty of journaling and note-taking space making this a perfect Bible to study and engage with Scripture.Pope Francis has said of the Bible, "Take it, carry it with you and read it every day: It...
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my mother's tomorrow: dispatches through the lens of Baltimore's Black ButterflyBaltimore City, like most urban spaces, has a particular type of rhythm. It has a pulse, and it moves and breathes. It is an Upper South city that has survived despite the challenges that it faces. It is a city full of stories and...
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Maya Angelou: A Writer's JournalFor the first time ever, fans of Maya Angelou have creative space to write their own masterpieces alongside quotes from the phenomenal poet, memoirist, activist, and actor in this elegant and evocative journal. Building on the rich legacy of Maya Angelou's publishing catalog, this...
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Light Therapeutics1910. A practical manual of phototherapy for the student and the practitioner. One of the first extended treatises on the therapeutics of light and possibly the first dealing with the use of the incandescent light bath and the correlation between using the light bath...
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Inventing the Enemy: And Other Occasional WritingsThe final collection from the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and one of the most influential, and entertaining, intellectuals of the last century--essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsession."Underscores the writer's profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all...
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Inhabit the Poem: Last EssaysIn 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a...
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics2021 Hardcover Reprint of the 1949 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics" is the first comprehensive treatise on economics written by a leading member of the modern Austrian school of economics....
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Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; MacbethThe greatest tragic plays of William Shakespeare--including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. What is tragedy? The Elizabethans defined it as a "lofty" play showing "personages of great state" caught up in a "lamentable" action that "beginneth prosperously and endeth unfortunately." Whether judged by...
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Flacofolio: Micro-EssaysFlaco, the eagle-owl liberated from his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo, captivated the city. He remained in Central Park for nine months living on his own, eventually also exploring nearby buildings and neighborhoods in Manhattan. In February 2024, one year after his escape,...
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A ConfessionalNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the New England Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year "The best of what memoir can accomplish... pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always...
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