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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Letter to my FatherThis letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered. 'In his preface he...
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In Defense Of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. ChestertonEssayist G.K. Chesterton was a master. However, reading his essays is more than just an exercise in studying literature at its best; it is also a chance to come across universal truths that still ring true today.Chesterton's essays are only problematic in that there...
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Held: Essays in BelongingFrom award-winning author Kathryn Nuernberger, Held is a collection of essays about mutualisms, mutual aid, and ways of being together in a time of climate crisis. Here is a collection about living in and with the consequences of terrible mistakes--Held contemplates our collective experiences...
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Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every DayFrom the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just outside it; designed to help you find joy every day. "Delight in food, in eating, in cooking, in serving, in recognizing our luck when...
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Dumb Luck and the Kindness of StrangersWitty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, "America's best fishing writer" (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of "legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on community, culture, the natural...
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Die Verwandlung / The Metamorphosis: Bilingual Edition German - English Side By Side Translation Parallel Text Novel For Advanced Language Learning LeThis version of the novella has been accommodated for German learners.The original German version of the story has been aligned side-by-side with the official English translation by Ian Johnston.German is printed on the left page, and English on the right page.The parallel text version...
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Bible Belt Blues: Collected EssaysLike most progressive Southerners, Hal Crowther is decidedly angry about current social and political events, but few writers are more able than he to articulate the problems, the issues, and even the bitter humor of our present situation.Hal Crowther is a writer who has...
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A River Dream: The Writing and Art of Russell Chatham's Clark City PressAn anthology and tribute to a unique independent publisher, Clark City Press. In 1987, the painter and author and fly fisherman Russell Chatham, renowned for his stunning landscape paintings and his appetite for life, decided to take control of his own career by creating...
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Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880-1882"Anton Chekhov: Earliest Stories offers the first comprehensive translation in English... And it is supremely juvenile in the best way." --The GuardianThis volume comprises a complete annotated translaton of Anton Chekhov's fifty eight earliest stories, arranged in chronological order. Written between 1880 and 1882,...
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A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 1)H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are two of the titans of weird fiction of their era. Dominating the pages of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, they have gained worldwide followings for their compelling writings and also for the very different...
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Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025"A. S. Hamrah's writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel less lonely." --Elif Batuman"Unerring" (Bookforum), "hilarious" (Dana Spiotta), "our age's most irreplaceable critic" (Guernica), "a genius" (Kenyon Review), A. S....
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After HenryNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Didion's "reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature.... She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking covers ground from...
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A Black Story May Contain Sensitive ContentIn a q&a after a reading I gave at George Mason University in the spring of 2023, I paraphrased a conversation I had with my brother earlier that year. We were on the stoop of his home in Bed-Stuy, talking about technology, about AI...
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Very Collected PoemsOver sixty years of poems celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry. Gathering a lifetime of poetry, Ron Padgett's Very Collected Poems is the ultimate record of the Pulitzer Prize finalist's oeuvre--newly updated since the sold-out first...
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Eternal Current Events: Early WritingsThe first English translation of Chris Marker's early writings on film, religion, philosophy, politics, and art. Before making his first films in the 1950s, Chris Marker was a regular contributor to the Paris-based magazine Esprit from 1946 to 1952. Unbound by genre or form,...
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The Complete PlaysThe complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine,...
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'ConnorWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award "I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix...
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Ron Carlson Writes a Story: Tips from a Master of the Craft"A master of the short story" discusses every aspect of the writing process, from story structure to staying focused, in this candid essay collection (Booklist). Ron Carlson's short stories have been featured in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere, while his numerous collections...
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and WritingA NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail)Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among...
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Disorganisation & SexNever does the patient seem more ill than when they try to order associations into a logical tale. Classical analysis sees this in terms of a repudiation of sexuality: an attempt to avoid speaking from a place of desire. But why should psychoanalysis reduce...
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