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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Where Are You from: Letters to My SonIn this tender collection of letters to his son, Tomás Q. Morín meditates on love, the body, and the future his son will have to face. He writes about the America his son will soon be born into, a country that will constantly question...
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When I Was a Child I Read BooksA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA New York Times BestsellerA New York Magazine Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the Year Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Gilead Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly...
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What Is It Like to be Alive?: Fourteen Attempts at an AnswerIn What is it Like to be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer, prize-winning essayist Chris Arthur looks into life's mirror and offers an account of what can be seen in ordinary things. Each of the book's fourteen essays is an exercise in seeing...
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War in Korea: Marguerite Higgins Reports from the Front LinesWar in Korea, first published in 1951 as War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent, is journalist Marguerite Higgins' account of her experiences with American fighting troops during the Korean war. Illustrated throughout with photographs. From the original dust jacket: Not...
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Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-Than-Human WorldPart nature guide, part self-help column, and all love letter to the more-than-human world, Utter, Earth is an exercise in wonder. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Amy Leach. A light, literary take on an animal book for grown-ups,...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - Young Folks' EditionUncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian...
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The TRAGIC AbyssDr. Louise Cowan, general editor of this collection of eighteen essays on tragedy is the third in a series on literary genre, tragedy, comedy, epic, and lyric, issued by Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture publications. Dr. Glenn Arbery is editor of this volume...
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The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional WritingsAn essential collection of nonfiction essays by the National Book Award winning author of J R and A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's...
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The Penguin Gandhi Reader"With this rich and interesting ensemble of essays, we finally have a handy sourcebook of Gandhi's writings."--The Journal of Asian Studies.Author: Mohandas K. GandhiPublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 03/01/1995Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 7.78h x 5.02w x 0.72dISBN: 9780140236866Audience: Young Adult
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The Notebooks of Sonny RollinsAn illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics--everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism--from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and "jazz's greatest living improviser" (The New York Times). Sonny...
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The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar WildeA nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the white roses tell her that there's...
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The Million Pound Bank NoteThe story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers give the penniless story protagonist, Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note. Henry would not be easily able to exchange that note...
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The Life And Teaching Of JesusAuthor: Edward W. BaumanPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLCPublished: 07/28/2012Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.51dISBN: 9781258450120This title is not returnable
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The James Baldwin CollectionFor the first time in a collector's boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction. With the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a distillation of his...
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The Gospel of St. BartholomewThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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The Elephant of Silence: Essays on Poetics and Cinema"A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it," contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind. By considering poetry, film, and the...
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The Dialectics of LiberationAuthor: David CooperPublisher: VersoPublished: 06/09/2015Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.80dISBN: 9781781688915About the AuthorDavid Cooper (1931-1986) was a South African-born theorist and existential psychiatrist.
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The Church of Milk and Honey: A Year of Collective WisdomTake these words, now, from a few of my fellow travelers as nourishment for each week of the year and know that we are now connected, you and me and all of us, and allow that miracle to come through. Enjoy 52 weeks of...
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Some of My Best Friends: And Other White Lies I've Been ToldA fearless, "funny, poignant, and super-smart" (Ms. magazine) essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions. In this "inspiring, determined work of personal narrative and cultural criticism" (Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives), essayist and award-winning voice...
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Shepherd Psalm"To see a masterpiece of painting on the walls of an art gallery while a throng of conventional sightseers is pressing past is a very different matter to seeing it quietly on the walls of some stately mansion, when there is time to sit...
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