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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Escape from Taiwan: Legacy of OppressionDuring the late 1960s through the early and mid-1970s, Chinese immigration into the United States came almost exclusively from Taiwan. They arrived on American shores to flee the regime of a dictator who used murder, brutality, and fear to stay in power and quell...
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Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery CentennialDust Off the Gold Medal provides a scholarly analysis of representative but understudied Newbery Medal books from the 1920s through the 2010s, interrogating the disjunction between the books' influence and the critical silence surrounding them. Author: Sara L. SchwebelPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Dear Oliver: An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver SacksWhen Susan Barry first wrote to Oliver Sacks, she never expected a response, let alone the deep friendship that blossomed over ten years of letters. Now, she is sharing those letters for the first time. It began when Sue--a neuroscientist--wrote to share an extraordinary...
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Correcting the World: Poems Selected & New 1980-2024A delicious and extensive sampling spanning 44 years of poetry from the published collections and new work of Michael Blumenthal, of whom Howard Nemerov, former Poet Laureate, said, "I know of no younger poet with a greater gift, nore of anuopne who has used...
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Classical Mythology: Myths and Legends of the Ancient WorldTravel back to a time when divine beings mixed with mortals with this deluxe hardback treasury of classical mythology, beautifully presented with classic illustrations, patterned endpapers and gold gilded page edges. From the legends of Hercules and the Titans, to tales of the underworld...
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Camus at "combat": Writing 1944-1947Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood. Albert...
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Battle Of KosovoThe Battle of Kosovo cycle of heroic ballads is generally considered the finest work of Serbian folk poetry. Commemorating the Serbian Empire's defeat at the hands of the Turks in the late fourteenth century, these poems and fragments have been known for centuries in...
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A Room Of One's OwnThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...
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A Retrospect Of The Boston Tea Party: With A Memoir Of George R. T. Hewes (1834)""A Retrospect of the Boston Tea Party: With a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes"" is a historical book written by James Hawkes in 1834. The book provides a detailed account of the Boston Tea Party, which was a significant event in the American...
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All at Once: Prose PoemsShort, sharp musings on things profound and mundane (and sometimes both) from the Pulitzer Prize winning poetC. K. Williams has never been afraid to push the boundaries of poetic form--in fact, he's known for it, with long, lyrical lines that compel, enthrall, and ensnare....
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Woman TriumphantWoman Triumphant interweaves in its story all the tangled threads of a great artist's life--his impelling genius, his passionate desire to paint the beauty of the world, his periods of reaction, his wife's love in conflict with her jealousy of much that his painting...
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Twelve Plays of the Noh and Kyogen Theaters"This remarkable anthology of . . . plays is a harbinger of a new age in Japanese theatre studies and will be considered a pivotal work in the future. . . . The closing essay by editor Karen Brazell on 'the nature of noh'...
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To Love an ArtistTO LOVE AN ARTIST is a book of tracing and traveling through different practices of marking time and space--from the archaeological to the choreographical, architectural, and meteorological. Through an inheritance passing down several long sequences that unravel and re-combine ecological evidences, biblical/military/technocratic narratives, bureaucratic...
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The Translator's Daughter: A MemoirA Taiwanese American writer unfurls themes of memory, dislocation, language, and loss to tell a unique story about reclaiming one's heritage while living in a diaspora. Born in Taiwan, Grace Loh Prasad was two years old when the threat of political persecution under Chiang...
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The Story GameWhat was that game we used to play when we were children? We played it every night, before things went wrong between us. It was a story game, wasn't it? In the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on...
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The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton SmithIn 1911 the poet George Sterling was the focus of a thriving literary community in California that included Jack London, Mary Austin, and the aged Ambrose Bierce. When he received a letter and some manuscript poems from a young writer in Auburn named Clark...
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The Seagull Book of StoriesAuthor: Joseph KellyPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 12/15/2022Pages: 496Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780393892963
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The Pocket Book Of FaithThe Pocket Book of Faith is a small yet powerful book written by Ralph Spaulding Cushman. It is a guide to help individuals strengthen their faith and deepen their spiritual connection. The book is divided into several sections, each focusing on a different aspect...
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The Plays of AristophanesThe Plays of Aristophanes (425 BC-388 BC) is a collection of comedies by Athenian playwright Aristophanes. Noted for his exploration of fantasy, sexuality, and contemporary politics, Aristophanes was a leading figure in Old Attic Comedy whose award-winning plays continue to delight and inspire nearly...
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The Men WithinThe Men Within is a collection of intimate thoughts, prayers, and letters that represent the struggles of the man, the good man, and the godly man that dwell within me and a sharing of insight into how they transition from one to another.I believe...
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