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 Waste BooksGerman scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what...
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Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other EssaysSelected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays span the whole of Hall's career, from...
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Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial NovelsThis volume makes available for the first time in English two of the most important novels of Japanese colonialism: Yuasa Katsuei's Kannani and Document of Flames. Born in Japan in 1910 and raised in Korea, Yuasa was an eyewitness to the ravages of the...
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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave TradeIn 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful...
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Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena: Includes New Essays Published for the First TimeIn classic Dixie storytelling fashion, with a rare blend of literary elegance and plainspoken humor, the inimitably charming, staunchly Southern Julia Reed wends her way below the Mason-Dixon line and observes many phenomena from politics, religion, and women to weather, guns, and what she...
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The Stars in Our Pockets: Getting Lost and Sometimes Found in the Digital AgeWhat shapes our sense of place, our sense of time, and our memory? How is technology changing the way we make sense of the world and of ourselves? Our screens offer us connection, especially now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there...
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Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome"A comprehensive anthology, carefully researched, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome has the considerable merit of making available in English translation authors who have never been translated at all, or whose work can be found only by professional scholars."-Mary Lefkowitz, coeditor of Women's...
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Don't Vote It Just Encourages the BastardsPut the country's big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks which are the Senate and the House. Having had a lot of fun with what politicians do,...
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A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We LoveA patriotic anthology similar in format to THE BEST-LOVED POEMS OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS, which will include poems, song lyrics, speeches, and other appropriate documents.Author: Caroline Kennedy-SchlossbergPublisher: Hyperion BooksPublished: 05/07/2003Pages: 688Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.05lbsSize: 7.30h x 10.10w x 1.70dISBN: 9780786869183Review Citation(s): Booklist 02/15/2003 pg....
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My New Orleans: Ballads to the Big Easy by Her Sons, Daughters, and LoversFrom famous writers and personalities who call the city home, whether by birth or simply love, these pieces written in the wake of Hurricane Katrina serve as a timeless tribute to New Orleans. Sentimental, joyful, and witty, these essays by celebrated writers, entertainers, chefs,...
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Lost in Track ChangesCate Kennedy, Ryan O'Neill, Fiona Capp, Robert Hoge, and Krissy Kneen take the personal and intimate craft of memoir and turn it over to the cut-and-paste transformation of remix culture, combined with a hint of old-fashioned parlour games.Edited by Simon Groth, Lost in Track...
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Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in LettersAn expression of an extraordinary poet's life story in her own words, this book shows Anne Sexton as she really was in private, as she wrote about herself to family, friends, fellow poets, and students. Anne's daughter Linda Gray Sexton and her close confidant...
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Chronicles of ChaosChronicles of Chaos, Rev. Justin Criado's first book of collected writings, leads readers on a mind-bending journey of heavy metal, midnight meanderings and doom-laden dread, as the stories paint a morbid picture of a decaying world full of everyday monsters and freaks.Author: Justin CriadoPublisher:...
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Selected LettersOne of England's most popular novelists, Jane Austen wrote about life amid the gentry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In her fiction, Austen analyzed and satirized her world, particularly the expectations and duties of women in an unequal society. She was...
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Just What the Doctor Disordered: Early Writings & Cartoons of Dr. SeussBefore his worldwide fame as a bestselling children's author, Theodor Seuss Geisel was a prolific writer and cartoonist for humor magazines of the early twentieth century. The creator of Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who, and other...
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Favorite American PoemsThis carefully compiled large print edition.offers a broad cross-section of beloved American verse, ranging from the earliest works in the genre by Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century poetry of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Selections include The Children's Hour and...
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Tartuffe and Other PlaysThe Ridiculous Precieuses * The School for Husbands * The School for Wives * The Critique of the School for Wives * The Versailles Impromptu * Tartuffe * Don Juan This memorable collection gathers the plays of the great social satirist and playwright Moli...
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The OdysseyThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries. Four maps, created especially for this translation. Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and others. Also included are...
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Selected Essays of John BergerThe writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger-poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist-has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of...
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The Changing Light at SandoverA welcome return to paperback: James Merrill's most famous and celebrated work.Author: James MerrillPublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 08/02/2011Pages: 640Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.40dISBN: 9780375711749About the AuthorJames Merrill was the author of thirteen books of poems as well as plays, novels,...
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