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 Hermetic Marriage: Being a Study in the Philosophy of the Thrice Greatest Hermes2013 Reprint of 1925 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Hermetic Marriage" explains certain alchemical symbols in the nature of all things. Taking the chemistry of human relationships as the basis, this essay describes the true...
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The Man Who Talks with the Flowers-The Intimate Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver2012 reprint of 1939 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor. Much of Carver's fame is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops...
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The Canon: An Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala as the Rule of All ArtsLooking inward and understanding that we are part of a whole, and connected to all things in nature, can lead to an appreciation of the world around us and the natural laws that hold us together. Numbers represent a language from which we may...
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Dog Really Did That?: 101 Stories of Miracles, Mischief and Magical MomentsThe dog really did that? You'll recognize your own dog in this entertaining collection of stories about the surprising, amusing, heartwarming things that our dogs do. From dogs who chew shoes to dogs who mend relationships--from crazy canines who crack us up to intuitive...
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The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the WorldSince publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection...
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When You Learn the AlphabetKendra Allen's first collection of essays--at its core--is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter. These parental...
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Correspondence: 1927-1987Selected letters capturing ongoing conversations between famed mythologist Joseph Campbell and a remarkable group of artists, seekers, filmmakers, novelists, and scholars This brand-new collection of letters features illuminating conversations between Joseph Campbell and a fascinating cast of correspondents, ranging from friends and cowriters to...
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Letters to a Young PoetEvery page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty...
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The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to PynchonOur foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another--how literary traditions are made--and no...
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How a Mountain Was Made: StoriesIn the tradition of Calvino's Italian Folktales, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, turns his attention to his ancestral homeland of Sonoma Mountain in Northern California. In sixteen interconnected original stories, the twin crows Question Woman and Answer Woman take us...
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Journal of a Trapper: In the Rocky Mountains Between 1834 and 1843; Comprising a General Description of the Country, Climate, Rivers, Lakes,This title focuses on major hazards to safety and interruption of production due to plant or processing hazards and how to balance safety concerns with plant performance. This book offers a reference for the engineer and plant or project manager to make decisions affecting...
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Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to KnowledgeA survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men...
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The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with RecipesThe Artists' and Writers' Cookbook is a collection of personal, food-related stories with recipes from 76 contemporary artists and writers. Inspired by a book from 1961, The (original) Artists' & Writers' Cookbook included recipes from the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Marianne Moore,...
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Never in a Hurry: Essays on People and PlacesPotluck suppers with could-be relatives, junkets to exotic locales, and the importance of strangers in our livesIn Never in a Hurry the poet Naomi Shihab Nye resist the American inclination to leave toward places when we barely had time enough to get there. Instead...
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15 Journeys: Warsaw to LondonThese fifteen journeys--fourteen of them within Poland--take six years, 1940-1946. The distances vary. Sometimes they are minimal, as short as a two-stop bus ride in a city, or a twenty-minute walk, and sometimes they are longer--much longer. The traveler is a young girl, who...
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Walking with Nobby: Conversations with Norman O. BrownCultural Writing. Essays. Biography and Memoir. Dale Pendell and retired professor Norman Brown, during walks taken along the coast of California, discuss many concepts and characters, including paganism and world religions, Dionysus, Marx, and Freud, presented here as footnoted conversations. Norman O. Brown (1913-2002)...
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El Kybalion (Spanish) EditionEl Kybali n es un documento del siglo XIX que resume las ense anzas del hermetismo, tambi n conocidos como los siete principios del hermetismo.Author: Hermes TrimegistoPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 04/23/2017Pages: 100Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.21dISBN: 9781545536216Language: SpanishThis title...
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Falkner (English Edition)Author: Mary ShelleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 03/13/2017Pages: 328Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781544289564This title is not returnable
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In the Penal ColonyThe story focuses on the Explorer, who is encountering the brutal machine for the first time. Everything about the machine and its purpose is told to him by the Officer. The Soldier and the Condemned (who is unaware that he has been sentenced to...
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El Principito 1942: Version en españolSaint-Exup ry, ganador de varios de los principales premios literarios de Francia y piloto militar al comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, escribi e ilustr el manuscrito mientras se encontraba exiliado en los Estados Unidos tras la batalla de Francia. Ah ten a la...
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