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 Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other EssaysAn unflinching collection of essays that takes on the subjects of Biggie Smalls, Three 6 Mafia, The King Family, and what it takes to be black at the turn of the twenty-first century.Author: William Jelani CobbPublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 03/27/2007Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.40h...
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The Complete Jane Austen CollectionThe perfect gift for any Jane Austen lover for only 29.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of Austen's best and much-loved works. Beautifully packaged in a rigid, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork. Includes:...
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The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia WoolfThis collection brings together Virginia Woolf's personal letters and reflections on a wide array of subjects, including feminism, war, and literature, providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most iconic writers. The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia...
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The Chicago Neighborhood GuidebookPart of Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook is an intimate exploration of the Windy City's history and identity. Required reading--The Chicago TribuneOfficially, Chicago has 77 neighborhoods. Unofficially, though, that number's closer to 200. But what does that mean for the people...
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The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables That Illumine, Delight, and InformPhilip Pullman, author of 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, has remarked that "after nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world." This new collection of Rumi stories fills that need.This fresh prose translation of 105 short teaching stories by...
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The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts: Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goetic Theurgy, Sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy, Also the Rituals of BlackThe Book of Black Magic and of Pacts is Arthur Edward Waite's complete guide to ceremonial magic, exploring arcane folklore, occult rituals, and the history of esoteric practice. Far more than a simple collection of spells, this volume offers a scholarly examination of the...
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The Blessing of Rain and Other PoemsThe poetry in this collection is informed by the memory of ancestors and is motivated as well by my personal struggle to define a vision of life. The poems are arranged loosely into five categories: Ancestors and Memory, Passages, The Natural World, The Spiritual...
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2019The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 presents articles honored by this year's National Magazine Awards, showcasing outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power, and violence, both at home and abroad. The anthology features remarkable reporting, including the story of a...
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The Anatomy of MelancholyThe Anatomy of Melancholy, one of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language.Ostensibly an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states - their causes, symptoms, and cures - the Anatomy is much more: a compendium of memorable utterances on...
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The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and NewIn recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author herself"A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way...
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Tar Hollow Trans: EssaysAuthor: Stacy Jane GroverPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 152Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.60w x 0.42dISBN: 9781985901810About the AuthorGrover, Stacy Jane: - Stacy Jane Grover is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and holds an MA in women's, gender, and sexuality...
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Tagalog Stories for Language Learners: Folktales and Stories in Filipino and English (Free Online Audio)The most enjoyable way to learn about a new culture is through its stories--especially when they're told in two languages! This book introduces 40 stories from the Philippines through bilingual Tagalog and English texts presented on facing pages. Paired with cultural notes, vocabulary lists,...
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Superior Stories"Superior Stories," winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest in fiction, is a series of six short stories which explore the lives of people who live in the northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Keweenaw. Bryan Gruley (award-winning author of...
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Stories from the Edge of the SeaAUTHOR OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD WINNER, PERFUME DREAMS: REFLECTIONS ON THE VIETNAMESE DIASPORA - AUTHOR OF BIRDS OF PARADISE LOST, the widely taught and anthologized debut short story collection - Andrew Lam returns with a literary exploration of love, lust, and loss...
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So Sad Today: Personal EssaysFrom acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes the darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays that Roxane Gay called "sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous." Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of...
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Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time"All points on a circle are always the same distance from the center." These exquisite personal essays trace the orbit of author Samina Najmi as she reflects on events, people, and places that shape her vision of the world. Whether she finds herself in...
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Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and AffrontsBaffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare's most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sections for quick retrieval when a stinging retort is demanded. Become the master of your own villainy...
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Selected Non-FictionsWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism The first comprehensive selection in any language of the non-fiction--much of it appearing here in English for the first time--of "one of literature's most fertile and original minds" (San Francisco Chronicle) A Penguin Classics...
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Safe Space: Who We Were, Who We Are, Who We Want to BeIn Safe Space, the gifted fifth-grade authors of J. Hampton Moore Elementary School in Philadelphia and their teacher, Kelly Ann Coughlin, explore the most important relationship of all-the one we have with ourselves. Through heartfelt stories brimming with honesty, creativity, and surprising wisdom, these...
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Roaring StreamThe Roaring, Stream: A New Zen Reader is a groundbreaking, immensely readable anthology drawn From the vast corpus of Ch'an and Zen Buddhist literature. It offers readers a tour through more than a millennium of writing, presenting one masterpiece after another in chronological progression....
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