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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The HistoriesIn The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous year of the Four Emperors'--AD 69--when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. W.H....
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The Collected Poems: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)For the centennial of Swann's Way the most complete volume of Proust's poetry ever assembled, in a gorgeous deluxe edition As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the...
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Early Socratic DialoguesRich in drama and humour, the Early Socratic Dialogues include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of...
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Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished PoemsA timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the...
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The Life of Images"Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, Simic] retains an outsider's perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary--all excellent qualities for an essayist. There's ample warmth and charm here." --New York Times Book Review In addition to being one of America's most...
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Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip MandelstamOsip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundreds--a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and a political non-conformist who earned the enmity of Stalin and his totalitarian regime. With Stolen...
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Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He's taken sf to places it's never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He's reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the international thriller (Reamde), and...
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An Extraordinary Theory of ObjectsIt's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July--with a touch of Joan Didion--in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young American girl's coming of age in Paris. As an adolescent in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava found an unconventional way to deal with...
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The Passenger: BarcelonaFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.IN THIS VOLUME: Lovestruck in Barcelona by Enrique Vila-Matas - Supermanza 503 by Gabi Martinez - The Great Barcelona Novel by Miqui Otero - plus: the complex legacy of...
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The Art of MagicT. Nelson Downs-the "king of coins" was not only America's most popular and famous coin manipulator, but a talented magician specializing in sleight-of-hand involving objects as varied as cards, eggs, balls, and a host of other objects. This book is not written for the...
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Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the WorldA confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been...
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Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57Author: Chips ChannonPublisher: Hutchinson RadiusPublished: 01/01/2023Pages: 896Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.82lbsISBN: 9781529151725
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U.P. Reader -- Volume #6: Bringing Upper Michigan Literature to the WorldMichigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future. Since 2017, the U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their voices that embraces...
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The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded: The Art and Meaning of Telling StoriesIn The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories are made and used, Jackson examines how stories...
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George MacDonaldUna antología de 365 días de lecturas de uno de los escritores más influyentes de todos los tiempos, George MacDonald, recopilada por el propio C. S. LewisEsta colección, compilada por el propio Lewis, presenta escritos de MacDonald, considerado como uno de los mejores escritores...
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Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, ReceptionHerodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, the book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select...
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Broke the Bread, Spilled the TeaWhat do you do when your identity directly contradicts your faith?The Christian Church has long been one of the most influential institutions in society. Self-proclaimed as God's representatives on earth, it is ironic to see how a faith of love and inclusion has been...
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Sex Secrets: Postcards from the BedEver wondered what we get up to behind closed doors? This anonymous collection of postcards will show you, in glorious technicolour detail.Following on from her bestselling Lockdown Secrets, queen of postcards Eleanor Tattersfield turns her attention to the sex lives of the nation. This...
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The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant: A Bilingual Edition Volume 98The extraordinary story of a seventeenth-century French midwife and her treatise on childbirth. In 1671, Marie Baudoin (1625-1700), head midwife and governor of the Hôtel-Dieu of Clermont-Ferrand, sent a treatise on the art of childbirth to her powerful Parisian patron, Dr. Vallant. The story...
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The Underground RailroadWilliam Still (1821-1902) was an African-American abolitionist, businessman, writer, historian, civil rights activist. He was also a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses created in the United States during the early to the mid-19th century for use...
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