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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Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen: A Classic Survey of the Medium and Its MastersIn this comprehensive study of the art of drawing with a pen, artist and author Joseph Pennell highlights his opinionated technical suggestions with more than 400 illustrations by 250 famous artists, including Titian, Dürer, Rembrandt, Rodin, Manet, Renoir, Beardsley, Pyle, Hiroshige, van Gogh, Rackham,...
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The Innocents AbroadHailed by the New York Herald as "an oasis in the desert of works on foreign travel," The Innocents Abroad was a great success when first published, and it remained the bestselling of all Twain's works throughout his lifetime. It shows the author at...
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The Story of My LifeWhen she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880-1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps -- with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan --...
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Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahulé: In and Out of AfricaThe work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahul has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For the first time, Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahul In and Out of Africa makes available to an Anglophone...
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Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in LettersHe would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-si cle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salom...
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Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose PairsStephen Dunn experiments with short, related pieces that play off each other in the manner of jazz improvisations. The resulting pairs cover such subjects as Scruples/Saints, Hypocrisy/Precision, and Anger/Generosity. The wisdom and startling turns we've come to expect from Dunn are everywhere in the...
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Kurt Vonnegut: LettersNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNewsweek/The Daily Beast - The Huffington Post - Kansas City Star - Time Out New York - Kirkus ReviewsThis extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. Written over a...
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At Large and at Small: Familiar EssaysIn At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay--a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that...
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The Essays of Leonard MichaelsLeonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections, are among the most thrilling evocations of growing up in the New York of the 1950s and '60s--and of continuing to grow up, in the cultural turmoil...
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The Great American Read: The Book of Books: Explore America's 100 Best-Loved NovelsA blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with...
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My Ideal BookshelfThe books that we choose to keep -- let alone read -- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books that...
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The Paris Review Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary MastersSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely crafted literature. From William Faulkner's determination that a great novel takes ninety-nine percent talent ....
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What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil WarUsing letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers--black and white, Northern and Southern--as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is "an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil...
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Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel (Deluxe, Expanded)In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy...
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Selected Poems and ProsePercy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. His major works include the long visionary poems "Prometheus Unbound" and "Adonais," an elegy on the death of John Keats. His...
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The Letters of Sylvia BeachFounder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to...
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The Complete Fairy Tales"Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!" Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the...
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The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other PlaysBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in...
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other PlaysBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in...
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Selected PoemsA billingual collection showing the range of Brecht's poetry, from the early Manual of Piety to the late Songs, Poems, and Choruses, including songs from his theater works. Translated and introduced by H.R. Hays.Author: Bertolt BrechtPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 03/24/1971Pages: 179Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.56h...
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