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 Portable Sixties ReaderFrom civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry,...
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Hip LogicThe second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 Terrance Hayes is a...
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Peer Gynt and BrandMasterful versions of Ibsen's two great verse plays by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill These two masterly and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of the irrepressible Peer Gynt--poet, idler, procrastinator, seducer--draw on...
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Greek Fiction: Callirhoe/Daphnis and Chloe/Letters of ChionA collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells of a boy and...
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Buddhist ScripturesA volume of key writings on the Buddha, collected from a variety of languages and traditions While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the...
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Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six ScenesExclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's powerful historical drama about Joan of Arc, which led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic With Saint Joan, which distills many of the ideas...
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The Notes LPRonald Reagan left behind a legacy that America willnever forget. Now, in this one-of-a-kind collection of his most intimatethoughts, his favorite quotations by others, and his own most collectiblejokes, all culled from a newly disclosed set of personal notecards he keptthroughout his life and...
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Aphrodite: A Memoir of the SensesNew York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore. Under the aegis of the Goddess...
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Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, anA brilliant and thought-provoking essay from one of the twentieth century's masters of fiction, Testaments Betrayed is written like a novel: the same characters appear and reappear throughout the nine parts of the book, as do the principal themes that preoccupy the author. Kundera...
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French Phrase Book: 1,500+ Common French Phrases and Vocabulary for Beginners and TravelersAn Easy French Phrase book and dictionary with the most updated common French Phrases + Downloadable Audio! (2022 Edition) Are you looking to jumpstart your study of basic French? Do you want to learn the most common French phrases used in everyday conversation? Are...
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Reimagining Realism: A New Anthology of Late Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century American Short FictionThis innovative collection reinvents the standard American short fiction anthology and offers readers an invigorated, inclusive, and nuanced understanding of American literary history and culture from the Civil War to the end of World War I.Beginning with one of Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches,...
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Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and Their PosterityThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The PagodaThis novel is a landmark in Japanese literature, widely known, read, and beloved. Sometimes known as "The Five-Story Pagoda," it tells the story of Jubei, a carpenter and craftsman, who dreams of building a pagoda for the Abbot of the Kannoji Temple. Despite his...
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H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915H. G. J. Moseley (1887 - 1915), the son and grandson of distinguished English scientists, a favorite student of Rutherford's and a colleague of Bohr's, completed researches of capital importance for atomic physics just before the outbreak of World War I. He was urged...
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Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-SidesPacking Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sidesaddresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plantstudies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. Thebook's main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental, vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and todo that...
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The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and ScienceThis book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. This period is distinctive in the history of responses to the unconscious because it gave rise to a line of thought according to which...
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MedeaONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND ENDURING OF GREEK TRAGEDIESAuthor: EuripidesPublisher: G&D MediaPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 94Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19dISBN: 9781722503857
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Overcast With Sunbreaks: Stories and Poems of OregonThe sequel to the first book in the Oregon Series, Oregon Tears, Overcast with Sunbreaks delivers more short stories, poems and essays about life in Oregon.Many days in Oregon offer residents a choice: Does one choose to see the clouds or the sunbreaks? In...
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Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: The American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810, Volume 6Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown's non-novelistic writings-letters, political pamphlets,...
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Spanish Short Stories for Intermediate Level: Improve Your Spanish Listening and Reading Comprehension Skills10 Spanish Short Stories to Boost Your Reading and Listening ComprehensionReading is one of the best activities you can do to learn new vocabulary and grammar structures. When coupled with audio material to boost your reading comprehension, it becomes an even more fun and...
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