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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Gem Cutting: A Lapidary's Manual, 2nd EditionA hobby backed by centuries of tradition, amateur gem cutting remains popular today. Once a completely unskilled beginner himself, Captain John Sinkankas never forgot his struggles in learning how to cut and polish gemstones without the benefit of an instructor. With his own experience...
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A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural"This book is broad and leisurely and important. Something like the river itself on which Wendell Berry lives. It is full of wide and flowing thoughts and one thing leads to another in the manner that nature intended―or used to. The language ranges from...
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Getting Through to People2014 Reprint of 1963 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Packed with dozens of amusing anecdotes and sample conversations, "Getting Through to People" shows you: how to get others - even naturally shy or secretive people -...
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Life Is Consciousness2011 Reprint of 1940 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Short Sermon 23 pages] given by Fox in 1940. According to Fox, "When you want to solve your problems or change your life, you can see at...
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Pity the Reader: On Writing with StyleThe art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers co-written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course...
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Elena Ferrante's Key Words"I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent."--ELENA FERRANTE, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng Huo...
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The Complete Works of Plato, Volume IICollected here in two volumes are the complete works of Plato, in the classic translation by Benjamin Jowett. One of the most influential thinkers of Ancient Greece or any other era, Plato formed the basis of Western philosophy. Mostly written in the form of...
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Toxemia Explained: The True Interpretation of the Cause of DiseaseFrom time immemorial man has looked for a savior; and, when not looking for a savior, he is looking for a cure. He believes in paternalism. He is looking to get something for nothing, not knowing that the highest price we ever pay for...
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Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings: A Library of America Paperback ClassicThe most essential writings of America's heroic Civil War president, complete with detailed notes, a chronology of Lincoln's life and political career, and an introduction by the novelist Gore Vidal Ranging from finely honed legal argument to wry and some sometimes savage humor to...
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The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli, Political Science, History & Theory, Literary Collections, Philosophy"Machiavellianism" is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The Prince.The Catholic Church banned The Prince. Humanists also viewed the book negatively. As a treatise, its primary intellectual contribution to the history of political...
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Letters to Annie: A Grandmother's Dreams of Fairy Tale Princesses, Princes, & Happily Ever AfterWhat do we love about fairy tales? How do they, along with Narnian and other fantasy stories, speak to us at any age? In the fictional voice of a grandmother writing to her granddaughter over the first twenty-five years of her life, Letters to...
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Had I Known: Collected EssaysWinner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker). A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara...
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Essays in HumanismThe great thinker reflects on such topics as nuclear weapons, world poverty, and international affairs in this Wall Street Journal bestseller. Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly prescient topics scientist Albert Einstein discusses in...
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Peeking Under My SkirtFrom intimate peeks at marriage to ruminations on candlelight, to an expose of the mayhem surrounding the annual extended family beach trip, Peeking is both lyrical and light-hearted.Author: Stephanie HuntPublisher: Booksurge PublishingPublished: 01/16/2002Pages: 106Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.22dISBN: 9781591093510About the...
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Crazy for VincentDiary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love.In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila,...
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In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, New EditionBaudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political simulations.Published one year after Forget Foucault, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (1978) may be the most important sociopolitical manifesto of the twentieth century: it calls for nothing less...
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This Is Not a NovelDavid Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating" and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace, Ann Beattie and Zadie Smith. Markson created his own personal genre....
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Brother of the Third Degree: Esoteric Novel About Secret Societies, Higher Initiation, and Final EnlightenmentThis a classic occult novel from the late 19th century that touches upon such themes as karma, reincarnation, secret societies, meditation, yoga, Saint Germain, conspiracies, and much more. It is a page turner and quite an enjoyable romp through all things esoteric and theosophical....
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Temple of Texts: EssaysWinner of the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, "A Temple of Texts" is the latest critical collection from one of America's greatest essayists and novelists. Here, William H. Gass pays homage to the readerly side of the literary experience by turning his...
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Further Cuttings-- Paperback original.-- First U.S. edition. British publication by Hart-Davis, McGibbon Ltd ('76).-- A companion to The Best of Myles, Further Cuttings culls more scathing selections from Cruiskeen Lawn, Flann O'Brien's column in the Irish Times written under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen.-- This...
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