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 Shape of a PocketFrom Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a collection of essays that explores the relationship of art and artists and includes examinations of the work of Brancusi, Degas, Michelangelo, and Frida Kahlo, among others. The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A...
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The Sweet ScienceA.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. The Sweet Science depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence,...
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Dying to Self: A Golden DialogueA complete resetting of the text of the William Law / Andrew Murray classic. This is not an OCR or a photocopy. It has been entirely re-typed and re-set. Aside from a short "Note to the Reader" no other editing has been performed.Author: William...
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Paris Review Interviews, IVFor more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age. This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including Philip Roth, Ezra Pound, Haruki Murakami, Marilynne Robinson, Stephen Sondheim, E. B....
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Abraham Lincoln, His Speeches and WritingsThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces--the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation--but hundreds of lesser-known gems. Alfred Kazin has written...
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Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the DiasporaSurrealism as a movement has always resisted the efforts of critics to confine it to any static definition--surrealists themselves have always preferred to speak of it in terms of dynamics, dialectics, goals, and struggles. Accordingly, surrealist groups have always encouraged and exemplified the widest...
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My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou ReedHardcover, 304 pages 6 9 in. 15.24 22.86 cm. During his first major sit-down with the music press in 1977, between claiming all his songs were about guilt and revenge, Elvis Costello casually remarked, "I don't really listen to Lou Reed's records, but I...
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The Trojan War, New Edition: The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the PhrygianImagine accounts of the Trojan War from those who actually fought there, long before Homer wrote The Iliad. Dictys's A Journal of the Trojan War and Dares's The Fall of Troy: A History tell in gritty detail the bloody siege of the fabled, doomed...
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We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected EssaysSpanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate...
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The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present DayHere at last is a single volume that reveals the bright thread of gay literature throughout the Western tradition. With hundreds of works by authors ranging from Ovid to James Baldwin, from Plato to Oscar Wilde, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature presents a...
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Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949(starred review) Somerville makes an impressive book debut with a life of novelist, journalist, and intrepid war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), told through a captivating selection of her letters to friends, family, husbands, and lovers. The volume is enriched by Somerville's biographical narrative and...
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One More Time: The Best of Mike RoykoWith the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, the best journalist of his time. Culled from 7500 columns and spanning four decades, from his early days...
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Complete LettersIn these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the career and interests of a senator...
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The SonnetsThe complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--in English and SpanishThis landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. More intimate and...
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Civil WarA magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic.Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulence in Rome. His Civil War portrays two of the most colorful and powerful figures of the age-Julius Caesar and...
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Selected LettersA rare glimpse into the mind of a brilliant young poet through his beautifully written letters These extraordinary letters give the fullest and most poignant record we have of John Keats's aspirations as a poet, his life as a literary man about town, his...
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On Love"A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us,"--Amazon.com.Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 02/02/2016Pages:...
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The Valadon Drama: the Life of Suzanne ValadonSuzanne Valadon, born in 1865 of an erratic mother and an anonymous father, was by the very circumstances of birth destined to live an unconventional life. Her volatile nature, her sensuality found fallow ground in the surging, twisted streets of Montmartre, where her mother,...
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Pineapple Town: HawaiiThis 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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Fourteen Hills Vol. 28The San Francisco State University ReviewFOURTEEN HILLS VOL. 28 features contributions from Sean Cho A., Ashleigh A. Allen, Valeria Amirkhanyan, Guilherme Bergamini, John Blair, Ciaran Cooper, Angie Cruz, A. A. deFreese, Jacques Denault, Art Por Díaz, Megan Erickson, Kate Gardiner, Mary Henn, Saúl Hernández,...
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