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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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the WorldWe sai1ed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a...
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Beethoven's LettersLudwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), the protagonist of freedom for music, disentangled music from the control of the ruling class. In publishing his music and writing for the rising classes, Beethoven claimed freedom and expressed the emotions of the new rulers, the artists. The Eroica,...
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Sur's Ocean: Classic Hindi Poetry in Translation"John Stratton Hawley miraculously manages to braid the charged erotic and divine qualities of Krishna, the many-named god, while introducing us--with subtle occasional rhyme--to a vividly particularized world of prayers and crocodile earrings, spiritual longing and love-struck bees."--Forrest Gander, winner of the Pulitzer Prize...
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The Portable CurmudgeonMore than 1,000 outrageously irreverent quotations, anecdotes, and interviews on a vast array of subjects, from an illustrious list of world class grouches. "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me."--Alice Roosevelt LongworthAuthor: VariousPublisher: Plume BooksPublished: 10/01/1992Pages: 320Binding Type:...
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An Introduction to Literary StudiesIn this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, looking at: definitions of key terms such as literature and text the genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and film...
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A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of LightA collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women's fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig--edited by Eleanor Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of...
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The Little Norton Reader: 50 Essays from the First 50 Years, with 2016 MLA UpdateThe Little Norton Reader presents 50 essays from the first 50 years of The Norton Reader, classics like the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" along with newer favorites such as "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and "Fun Home." Its small size makes it portable, and...
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Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing about KnittingIn Knitting Pearls, two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Lily King remembers the year her family lived in Italy, and a knitted hat that helped her daughter adjust to her new home. Laura Lippman explores how converting to...
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Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002Six years after the much-heralded publication of Cultural Amnesia, Clive James presents his "prequel"--forty-nine essays that he has selected as the best of his half-century career. Originally appearing as As of This Writing, Cultural Cohesion examines the twisted cultural terrain of the twentieth century...
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Selected Poems of Wallace StevensThe first new selection of this acclaimed poet's work in nearly twenty years--now in paperback--is a rich reminder to poetry readers of his lasting contribution and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us.Author: Wallace StevensPublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 02/08/2011Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Cannon Fire: A Life in PrintMichael Cannon is best known as the author of landmark and popular works of Australian history, including The Land Boomers (1966), and as the founding editor of Historical Records of Victoria. But Cannon, the child and grandchild of important figures in Australian independent journalism,...
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American StudiesAt each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable...
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Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker's award-winning longtime book criticEver since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays...
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The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the ShoshonesAt age 12 Elijah Nicholas Wilson ran away from his family. Fighting off the constraints of his Mormon upbringing he found a new home with a Shoshone Indian tribe. Under their guidance, particularly of the Great Chief Washakie, he learned how to live and...
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What the Dog Saw: And Other AdventuresThe bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker. What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why...
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The Charles Bowden Reader"I will make bold to say that Bowden is America's most alarming writer. Just when you think you've heard it all you learn you haven't in the most pungent manner possible. . . . With The Charles Bowden Reader in hand you get a...
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Evocative Objects: Things We Think WithAutobiographical essays, framed by two interpretive essays by the editor, describe the power of an object to evoke emotion and provoke thought: reflections on a cello, a laptop computer, a 1964 Ford Falcon, an apple, a mummy in a museum, and other "things-to-think-with."For Sherry...
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Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four ActsAlexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique. Its protagonist, Alexander...
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Euripides III: Heracles/The Trojan Women/Iphigenia Among the Taurians/IonEuripides III contains the plays "Heracles," translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Trojan Women," translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Iphigenia among the Taurians," translated by Anne Carson; and "Ion," translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project:...
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Richard II: The Oxford ShakespeareWritten in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced representation of the political conflicts of England's past where character and politics...
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