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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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: Letters of Personal Adventure in 1873A great lady traveller's best known work Isabella Bird was born in 1831 in Cheshire, England became one of a distinguished group of female travellers famous in the nineteenth century-a time when it was considered that a lady's place should be confined to the...
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Brief Interviews with the Romantic PastCould Marie Antoinette's wigs get any higher? Could the anonymous women riding in hot air balloons alone with gentlemen be any more scandalous? Does an Ozark holler hold the mouth to a lost cave with the longest, thickest vein of gold in North America?...
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The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales and Their TellersThis comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and...
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Campo Santo"W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence-humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy. . . . In Campo Santo] Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency, learning and self-revelation. ....
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I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur RimbaudOne of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud's life depend on one main source for information--his...
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The Complete Old English PoemsFrom the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was...
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Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin FranklinAn outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin has long been unavailable yet deserves a place beside his Autobiography as essential reading for everyone interested in history, wit, and invention. Portioned into three sections, Practical Schemes and Suggestions, Diverse Experiments...
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New & Selected EssaysDenise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various--poetics, the imagination, politics, spirituality, other writers--and her approach independent minded and richly complex. Here in a single volume are recent essays exploring new...
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Selected Essays of William Carlos WilliamsThroughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary magazines, wrote prefaces and introductions, and lectured at many universities. This selection represents his finest work in criticism. Much of it concerns...
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Literary Essays of Ezra PoundFor this definitive collection of Pound's Literary Essays, his friend (and English editor) T. S. Eliot chose material from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations (1920), How to Read (1931), Make It New (1934), and Polite Essays (1937). 33 pieces are arranged...
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Nature and WalkingTogether in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 07/01/1994Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 7.91h x 5.02w x 0.48dISBN: 9780807014196Review Citation(s): Library Journal 08/01/1994 pg. 141About...
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Cabin Fever"If Tom Montgomery Fate has not found the secret formula for the deliberate, balanced life, he is a chief disciple of the search."--Chicago Tribune Try to imagine Thoreau married, with a job, three kids, and a minivan. This is the sensibility--serious yet irreverent--that suffuses...
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The Selected Prose of Fernando PessoaThe Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [thoughAuthor: Fernando PessoaPublisher: Grove PressPublished: 07/19/2002Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.54w x 0.94dISBN: 9780802139146
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NKJV, Single-Column Reference Bible, Genuine Leather, Black, Red Letter Edition, Comfort PrintA beautifully crafted New King James Bible in a clear single-column format for an exceptional Bible reading experience.The NKJV Single-Column Reference Bible is constructed with beautiful details, including double ribbons, premium paper, highly readable text, and an elegant binding in a sought-after single column...
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Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Most Outrageous CompetitionBestselling author and ESPN star, Rick Reilly delivers a hilarious, unabashedly fun, and at times, skin-searing tour through some of the world's most amazing and outrageous sports From the physically and mentally taxing sport of chess boxing to the psychological battlefield that is the...
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Sweet Wolverine: a CollectionA collection of vivid examinations of the gristle & marrow of sweet truth and bitter honesty. Authored by the extraordinary talents of such poets. Robert Zenz, Caits Meissner, Jay Nelson, William James, Daniel Patterson, Khari Waits, Christopher Mohar, Sam Sax, Matt Matriaciano, Benjamin Biesek,...
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary JournalismLearn how to be the best journalist you can be with what "could be the world's most readable textbook" (Time Out New York). The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, and Orwell, and...
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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and...
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A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIVA new annotated edition of Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical--this volume reveals the poet's greatest thoughts on the occult. First published in 1925, and then substantially revised by the author in 1937,...
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Hopkins: PoemsThese Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Hopkins contains a full selection of Hopkins's work, including selected verse, prose, and letters, and an index of first lines.Author: Gerard Manley...
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