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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St. Thomas Aquinas2011 Reprint of 1943 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "St. Thomas Aquinas" is enriched by the author's unique ability to see the world through the saint's eyes, a fresh and animated view that shows us Aquinas...
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One Hundred and One Famous Poems"One Hundred and One Poems" by Roy Cook is a remarkable anthology of American poets. Some are no longer familiar, but their poetry sheds light on an earlier America, one that inhabited a less complicated world. One-third of the 'famous poems' belong to such...
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A New Sublime: Ten Timeless Lessons on the ClassicsBoitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. With their emphasis on the mutability and...
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Anarchism and Other EssaysThis is a 1910 essay collection by Emma Goldman, which outline her anarchist views on a number of subjects, mainly related to women and perceived shortcomings of first wave feminism. There are essays about puritanism, traffic in women, woman suffrage, woman's emancipation, marriage and...
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The Tallgrass Prairie ReaderAuthor: John T. PricePublisher: University of Iowa PressPublished: 06/01/2014Pages: 334Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.14w x 0.91dISBN: 9781609382469About the AuthorJohn Price is the award-winning author of the memoirs Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships (Iowa paperback, 2012), Not Just Any Land: A...
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with Illustrations by Edward Burne-JonesDesigner, social reformer, and writer William Morris (1834 - 96) was a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and a towering figure of Victorian artistic and cultural history. Inspired by the hand presses of the fifteenth century, Morris established the Kelmscott Press to...
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The Bells and Other PoemsWith their evocations of romantic longing and the transience of beauty and life itself, the poems of Edgar Allan Poe have captivated readers around the world. This lavish hardcover volume features the best of Poe's verse, including The Raven, Annabel Lee, To Helen, and...
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Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (Loa #284): The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / TEditors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin present a definitive edition of Albert Murray's collected nonfiction, including his 1971 memoir South to a Very Old Place, inspiration for Imani Perry's South to America. In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took...
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Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and ConsequencesI have no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and...
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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and SpaciousnessThe incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction including Men Explain Things To Me, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness; hailed by the Los Angeles Times as globally...
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Chili Dawgs Always Bark at NightIn Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night, Lewis Grizzard once again confirms his reputation as the "William Faulkner of just plain folks" using colorful storytelling to tackle such Grizzardian subjects as: Fashion: "Don't wear anything that features a picture of a pelican, a pink...
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Pretentiousness: Why It MattersPretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we...
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Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935This third volume of a projected six reinforces Huxley's stature as one of the most acute and informed observers of the social and ideological trends of the years between the world wars. It contains the important collection of essays "Music at Night" as well...
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Walking the Rez Road: Stories, 20th Anniversary EditionCelebrating two decades in publication, this twentieth-anniversary edition of a timeless classic comprises forty stories and poems that feature Luke Warmwater, a Vietnam veteran who survived the war but has trouble surviving the peace.Author: Jim NorthrupPublisher: Fulcrum PublishingPublished: 07/01/2013Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.40h...
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The Jew of MaltaA new critical introduction and very extensive appendices on the major philosophical and political texts of the play make this edition unique on the market. Author: Christopher MarlowePublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 12/02/2011Pages: 290Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60dISBN: 9781554810680About the Author...
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Legends of VancouverThis print-on-demand title is available by request from most booksellers. A much-loved Canadian classic, Pauline Johnson's Legends of Vancouver was first published in 1911 and has been in print ever since. Through her poetic, romantic retelling of these Native legends, Pauline Johnson takes the...
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De CiveDe Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1642, followed by two further Latin editions in 1647 from Amsterdam. The English translation of the work made its first appearance four...
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The Beautiful and the DamnedThe Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York caf society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s....
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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Finalist for the Audie Award in Humor There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to...
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La CaidaLa Ca da es la tercera y ltima novela de este fil sofo, publicada en el a o 1956. Dentro de su obra se puede identificar la l nea existencialista de su pensamiento, asimismo refleja la filosof a de lo absurdo en la sensaci...
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