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 Best American Science and Nature Writing"The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intellect and uplift the spirit."--Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor...
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Wallflower at the OrgyA bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pasttimes--from one of the most creative minds of our time. "Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything."--The New York Times From her Academy Award-nominated screenplays...
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Euripides: MedeaThis edition presents Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, in ancient Greek, with commentary designed for university Greek classes, from second-year Greek upward. It helps students experience a classic drama as they work through the process of careful translation and...
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The Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and NotesThe Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. Well before the advent of writing in Greece, they were performed by traveling bards at religious events, competitions, banquets, and festivals. These thirty-four...
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The Selected Poetry of Yehuda AmichaiYehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by...
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Selected Short StoriesIt is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as of the full-length novel. This original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts...
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Selected Essays/Essais Choisis: A Dual-Language BookOne of the great French Renaissance thinkers, sixteenth-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was remarkably modern in his views. His writings--brilliant forerunners of the modern essay--reflect his thoughts and opinions on poetry, philosophy, theology, law, literature, education, and world exploration. Highly readable works written...
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Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of PsychotherapyThe publication of Creatures of a Day is reason to celebrate. -- Steven Pinker In this stunning collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles -- as well as his own -- to come to terms with the two great...
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Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonA classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of nineteenth-century America.Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Signet BookPublished: 06/07/2011Pages: 576Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 6.79h x 4.26w x 1.23dISBN: 9780451531865Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson, the son of a...
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Attention: Dispatches from a Land of DistractionA wide-ranging, rule-bending collection of nonfiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus "Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life."--Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED...
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SummerThe grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses...
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A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest WritingsEdited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books--the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on...
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Russia's Lost Literature of the AbsurdThese bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before in any language.Author: Daniel...
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial: A Drama in Two ActsThe novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life--and mutiny--on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in...
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Tales, Poems, and Other WritingsFrom short masterpieces like "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Billy Budd" to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem "Clarel," Melville's stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology-the first of its kind in fifty years-gathers...
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God's SilenceIn this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha's Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God's Silence with "East Boston, 1996," a powerful long...
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Amor / LoveAtr vete a amar. Si hay alguien capaz de describir con maestr a, personalidad y humor la naturaleza caprichosa del amor, es Isabel Allende. Esta recopilaci n de escenas de amor, seleccionadas de entre sus libros, es una invitaci n a sumergirse en la...
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American Practical NavigatorThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Cleopatra's NoseA New York Times Notable Book of 2007Cleopatra's Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles, representing twenty years of Judith Thurman's writing, particularly her fascination with human vanity, femininity, and women's work--a term that, in her definition, encompasses haute couture, literature, and...
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern ThoughtIn this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing Calvinism and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive puritan stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists,...
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