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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My Neglected GodsWe all have our rituals and talismans to protect us from the unknown, but will we admit what they are? Tarot cards, speeding cars, several saints, and old dogs make appearances in Joanne Nelson's new collection of prose and poetry. She unravels the secular...
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The Weidners in Wartime: Letters of Daily Survival and Heroism Under Nazi RuleThe Weidners in Wartime is the intimate story, told in their own words, of a family separated by war. Despite the dangers of writing under the inspection of censors, their letters paint a vivid portrait of decent human beings fighting valiantly to maintain their...
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Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and PoemsShow Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved--and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The...
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A Year and a Day: An Experiment in EssaysA compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany of daily life--movies and art, friends and family--over the course of a single year....
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In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]"Embark on a literary journey of unparalleled depth and beauty with Marcel Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time.' Across seven mesmerizing volumes, Proust intricately weaves together memory, love, and the passage of time into a tapestry of human experience. Delve into the captivating prose...
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty EssaysForty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth century. Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music and sculpture, modernist poets and...
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A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working WomanKessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyoneAuthor: Ida Pruitt, Ning Lao T'Ai-T'AiPublisher: Kessinger PublishingPublished: 09/10/2010Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 6.00h x 9.02w x 0.55dISBN: 9781163186909This title is not returnable
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The Mill of the FlossTom and Maggie Tulliver are two kids growing up at Dorlcote Mill, which has been in their family for generations. The kids have a lot of extended family living nearby, and their aunts and uncles frequently come by to argue amongst themselves and to...
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The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume II - Between the Acts, Mrs. Dalloway, & OrlandoAdeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the...
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Masculine, Feminine, Neuter and Other Writings on LiteratureA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained...
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To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and TransformationTwenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli Murray The religious thought and activism that shaped the late twentieth century is typically described in terms of Black men from the major Black denominations, a depiction that fails to account for the...
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The Negro In Our History (1922)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R. C.THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Mysteries of the Rosie Cross, by Rosicrucian Brothers . To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564596982.Author: Rosicrucian BrothersPublisher: Kessinger PublishingPublished: 09/10/2010Pages: 34Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 7.52h x 9.25w x 0.07dISBN: 9781162869506This title is...
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Love as a Way of KnowingBetween 1944 and 1963 the author was born into and grew up in the literal and violent Jim Crow culture and spirit within the Mississippi Delta. In all matters of life and death within this Jim Crow world, white males were its interpreters of...
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I'll Show Myself Out Lib/E: Essays on Midlife and MotherhoodThe eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling debut You'll Grow Out of It.Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of...
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How to Draw a NovelFrom the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don't Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and former publisher Martín SolaresIn this finely wrought collection of essays, Martín Solares...
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Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and PerformanceCaribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance examines the Caribbean popular - an idea that has been an important and contested terrain for exploring the dynamic and oftentimes subversive cultural expressions of the region. The Caribbean popular arts, whether embodied in the hybrid musical...
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Mes Conversations Avec ClaudeClaude était éminemment habile à converser. Car il écoutait. Il écoutait attentivement et pesamment. Il jaugeait les paroles qu'il entendait, et réfléchissait longuement avant de hasarder une réponse. Si longuement que le narrateur en est perplexe, au début. De toute évidence, il n'était pas...
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Meditations: (with Introduction, Appendix, Notes and Glossary)The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is a life-changing book. Among others, it contains the following reflections: "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find...
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The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of PowerOne of the most influential evangelical Christian speakers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, R. A. Torrey traveled the world to bring the word of Christ to audiences. In this inspirational work, first published in 1924, Torrey reveals the secrets to tapping...
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