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 Abraham LincolnCelebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our...
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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian ReaderClarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha...
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Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation"A terrific, original, and important work....Fitzpatrick provides a stunningly fresh look at the impact of JFK's assassination on the American people."--Doris Kearns GoodwinFor Letters to Jackie, noted historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick combed through literally thousands of condolence messages...
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The Ghost SoldiersIn this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. Tate′s surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American...
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain...
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Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public ShameHumiliation is not, of course, unique to writers. However, the world of letters does seem to offer a near-perfect micro-climate for embarrassment and shame. There is something about the conjunction of high-mindedness and low income that is inherently comic; something about the very idea...
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All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark CoolidgeAll This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic...
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A Long way from Hyderabad: Diary of a Young Muslim Woman in 1930s BritainA young Muslim woman, Muhammadi Begum, arrived on English shores from the princely state of Hyderabad in the early 1930s. Her sharp intelligence had won her a scholarship to attend Oxford University, making her one of just a few Indian Muslim women to receive...
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation"One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and searching restlessness, and at its best, delves deep into the recesses of the...
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Canon/Archive: Studies in Quantitative FormalismAuthor: Franco MorettiPublisher: N+1 BooksPublished: 10/01/2017Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsISBN: 9780997031874
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The Requirements of the Sufi Path: A Defense of the Mystical TraditionSufism through the eyes of a legal scholar In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khaldūn applies his analytical powers to Sufism, which he deems a bona fide form of Islamic piety. Ibn Khaldūn is widely...
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The Twice-Given Gift & Other WritingsStories help us connect. Yes, they take us out of our comfort zone - out of our own world - and allow us to see things through other people's eyes. But they also open us up to the values and feelings we share as...
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The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿabbāsid Poetics in Abū Al-ʿalāʾ Al-Maʿarrī's Saq̊Author: Stetkevych Suzanne P.Publisher: BrillPublished: 10/27/2022Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004499270This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Seventy Years Worth of Travels: Snippets From a Colourful and Interesting LifeThis is a travel memoir, snippets of the authors life and travel adventures. Seventy Years Worth of Travel.TUNISIA, 1969: "I can still remember the scent of the jasmine as we walked along the dusty road. I was hooked. Travel was my new passion."FIJI ISLANDS,...
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En busca de los ladrones del fuegoDesde la mitología griega, y con el mito de Prometeo honrado por robar el fuego de los dioses para entregarlo a los humanos, tenemos en este elemento el símbolo de la sabiduría, el conocimiento, lo que nutre el deseo de saber. La poeta y...
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Ah, WildernessAh, Wilderness! is a sharp departure from the gritty reality of the author's renowned dramas. Taking place over the July 4th weekend of 1906 in an idyllic Connecticut town, it offers a tender, retrospective portrait of small town family values, teenage growing pains, and...
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Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An AnthologyThis anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy's philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive,...
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Modern Brazilian Short StoriesThe seventeen stories in this anthology have been carefully chosen to provide a wide, representative range of recent and contemporary Brazilian themes and styles. The scenes vary from a nearly abandoned village or a ranch in the northeastern backlands to the streets of Rio...
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OIn O, artist and writer Tammy Nguyen returns to Vietnam to visit the caves of the Phong Nha Karst. This journey into the Karst's windcarved teeth resounds with the traditional songs of Nguyen's guides, whose melodies produce the OOOOOOOO that echoes through narratives woven...
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Capsule Stories Spring 2022 Edition: Into the LightFeaturing poetry and prose, Capsule Stories Spring 2022 Edition explores the theme Into the Light. Read bright and sunny writings that shine a light on growth and new possibilities after a long, dark winter. These stories and poems tell of leaving bad relationships, of...
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