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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Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was...
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Zither & AutobiographyA reflective, eclectic mixture of poetry and prose.Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of...
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Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour KrimIn 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. James Baldwin called Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer an "extraordinary volume." Saul...
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Bob Seger's House and Other StoriesBob Seger's House and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by some of Michigan's most well-known fiction writers. This collection of twenty-two short stories serves as a celebration not only of the tenth anniversary of the Made in Michigan Writers Series...
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Sustainability: A Love StoryIn Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have Internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway-who eats cows, drives...
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Mind of an Outlaw: Selected EssaysNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize...
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New York Diaries: 1609 to 2009New York is a city like no other. Through the centuries, she's been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered--all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture. Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast,...
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Menander: The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, the Girl from Samos, the ShieldThe Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. The translations in this...
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The Selected Letters of William Carlos WilliamsSpanning fifty-four years, this collection record the creative growth of one of the twentieth century's most influential and versatile writers.Author: William Carlos WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 02/17/1985Pages: 346Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 7.97h x 5.20w x 0.95dISBN: 9780811209342About the AuthorWilliams, William Carlos: - Besides...
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Interviews with William Carlos Williams"Not after the establishment, but speaking straight ahead." This is how William Carlos Williams referred to his own forthrightness as well as his practice of using only American speech patterns in his poems. In Interviews with William Carlos Williams, Linda Wagner of the English...
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Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It"We need poetry as we need love and company," according to Miller Williams. Making a Poem speaks to us all -- those of us trying to write a first poem, those who have published volumes of poetry, and anyone who cares how the world...
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End of the Novel of LoveOffers powerful insight into the portrayal of romantic love by Jean Rhys, Clover Adams, Christina Stead, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, and others.Author: Vivian GornickPublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 10/01/1998Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.26h x 5.50w x 0.53dISBN: 9780807062234Review Citation(s): New York...
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Writers on Writing: More Collected Essays from the New York TimesGlimpses into writers and the circumstances that shape them . . . Valuable gleanings.-Kirkus Reviews In a second volume of original essays drawn from the long-running New York Times column, Writers on Writing brings together another group of contemporary literature's finest voices to muse...
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Potentialities: Collected EssaysThis book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and...
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Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of PlaceFor some, a sense of place is about travel, about plunging oneself into new settings. For others, it is about being-and knowing-home. This book is a collection of essays, memoirs, nature writing, and travel narratives that document the impact this sense of place has...
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Synthesizing Gravity: Selected ProseThe first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan's probings into aesthetics, poetics, and...
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Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs ReaderWith the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs's remarkable career,...
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Wilde Writings: Contextual ConditionsOpening with an introduction by Joseph Bristow and featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and ground-breaking volume ushers the field of Oscar Wilde studies into the twenty-first century. The contributors focus on...
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Finding a Form: Towards a Response Contagion Theory of Persuasion"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein . . . the avant garde . . . the demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize...
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Nrsv, Catholic Bible, Journal Edition, Cloth Over Board, Gray, Comfort Print: Holy BibleThe full Catholic canon with wide margins allow for plenty of journaling and note-taking space making this a perfect Bible to study and engage with Scripture.Pope Francis has said of the Bible, "Take it, carry it with you and read it every day: It...
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