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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MisreadingsSatirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. "A scintillating collection of writings" (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt...
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Essays of Virginia Woolf Vol 3 1919-1924: Vol. 3, 1919-1924During the period in which these essays were written, Woolf published Night and Day and Jacob's Room, contributed widely to British and American periodicals, and progressed from straight reviewing to more extended critical essays. "Excellently edited, the essays reconfirm [Woolf's] major importance as a...
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Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and ThoughtHeller examines the sense of values embodied in the works of key German writers and thinkers from Goethe to Kafka, particularly the consciousness of life's depreciation.Author: Erich HellerPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 03/26/1975Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.62w x 0.94dISBN: 9780156261005
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Andromache, by RacineA skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector's wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed couplets retain the simplicity of form and powerful language of the original. "[This translation] is a striking tour de force"...
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Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic ProcessA stunning masterclass on the creative process, the craft of writing, and the art of finding inspiration from Stephen King, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, and more of the most acclaimed writers at work today For artists in need...
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The Portable Sixties ReaderFrom civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry,...
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Hip LogicThe second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 Terrance Hayes is a...
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Peer Gynt and BrandMasterful versions of Ibsen's two great verse plays by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill These two masterly and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of the irrepressible Peer Gynt--poet, idler, procrastinator, seducer--draw on...
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Greek Fiction: Callirhoe/Daphnis and Chloe/Letters of ChionA collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells of a boy and...
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Eyrbyggja SagaAn Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and...
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Buddhist ScripturesA volume of key writings on the Buddha, collected from a variety of languages and traditions While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the...
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Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six ScenesExclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's powerful historical drama about Joan of Arc, which led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic With Saint Joan, which distills many of the ideas...
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The Notes LPRonald Reagan left behind a legacy that America willnever forget. Now, in this one-of-a-kind collection of his most intimatethoughts, his favorite quotations by others, and his own most collectiblejokes, all culled from a newly disclosed set of personal notecards he keptthroughout his life and...
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Aphrodite: A Memoir of the SensesNew York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore. Under the aegis of the Goddess...
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Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, anA brilliant and thought-provoking essay from one of the twentieth century's masters of fiction, Testaments Betrayed is written like a novel: the same characters appear and reappear throughout the nine parts of the book, as do the principal themes that preoccupy the author. Kundera...
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French Phrase Book: 1,500+ Common French Phrases and Vocabulary for Beginners and TravelersAn Easy French Phrase book and dictionary with the most updated common French Phrases + Downloadable Audio! (2022 Edition) Are you looking to jumpstart your study of basic French? Do you want to learn the most common French phrases used in everyday conversation? Are...
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Capricorn, Venus Descendant: 50 Poems of Pandemos, Karkinos, & ErosMature poetry from a master wordsmith, dealing with crises of cancer and pandemic, redeemed by the joy and comfort of physical love.In the poem Serpentine from his new collection CAPRICORN, VENUS DESCENDANT, Michael Joyce describes himself Caught in his own cleverness, tumbling through too...
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Mama TriedFierce poems that take us into a classroom of at-risk children, and the journey through motherhood.If I do not write today / I will never write another poem--let us be grateful, then, that B. Elizabeth Beck wrote that day, and many others, resulting in...
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Reimagining Realism: A New Anthology of Late Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century American Short FictionThis innovative collection reinvents the standard American short fiction anthology and offers readers an invigorated, inclusive, and nuanced understanding of American literary history and culture from the Civil War to the end of World War I.Beginning with one of Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches,...
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Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and Their PosterityThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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