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 Oxford Handbook of British Romantic ProseThe Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and...
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The Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial TravellerThe Uncommercial Traveller is a remarkable display of creative journalism from Dickens's final decade, balancing Sketches by Boz at the beginning of his career. The 37 short papers, which first appeared in his weekly journal All The Year Round, offer sensitive and penetrating perspectives...
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The Log of a CowboyAndy Adams' "The Log of a Cowboy" is a fascinating read that immerses readers into the life of the 19th-century cowboy. Produced in 1903, Andy Adam's novel provides a vivid account of cowboys' lives through their struggles and achievements on their journey from Texas...
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The Code of Hammurabi: Two renowned translationsThis singular edition uniquely combines translations by both Leonard William King and Robert Francis Harper, offering readers a comprehensive perspective and enriched interpretation of the ancient text. The Code of Hammurabi stands as one of the earliest and most comprehensive legal codes in human...
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The Autobiography of a Papago WomanThe Autobiography of a Papago Woman is a non-fiction book written by Ruth Underhill. The book is based on the life of a Papago woman named Maria Chona, who lived in the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States. The book provides a detailed...
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That Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle WestThat Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle West, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation...
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That Printer of Udell'sAuthor: Harold Bell WrightPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 12/11/2016Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.53dISBN: 9781541048751This title is not returnable
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Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy LoverA fun, sophisticated illustrated collection of essays that catalogs the simple and not so simple pleasures of the eclectic world of candy from the award-winning author of After the Eclipse. With illustrations by Forsyth Harmon.A taxonomy of sweetness, a rhapsody of artificial flavors, and...
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Son Of Tears: A Novel Of The Life Of St. Augustine""Son of Tears: A Novel of the Life of St. Augustine"" is a historical fiction novel written by Henry Coray. The book tells the story of St. Augustine, one of the most influential Christian thinkers and theologians of all time, from his childhood in...
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Six Yuan PlaysAlthough their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other released from the straight-jacket...
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Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands"...Red Rock Stories converges upon a vision for a relationship with the living land which is both ancient and urgent, a healing vision where the land and the people are linked by mutual responsibility."--ROBIN WALL KIMMERERRed Rock Stories conveys spiritual and cultural values of...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major ProseUpon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971-2013) was hailed as a major achievement of scholarship and textual editing. Drawing from the ten volumes of the Collected Works, Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson have gathered some of Emerson's most memorable...
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Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their ChildrenThis elegantly designed volume of personal letters from famous Americans illuminates the rich history of some of this country's most storied families.Author: Dorie McCullough LawsonPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 04/22/2008Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.92h x 5.28w x 0.72dISBN: 9780767909044About the AuthorDorie McCullough Lawson...
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Over to You: Letters Between a Father and SonCompelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond. Written between 2015-16, with 53 color images...
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On the MountainPoetry by Alan Archer Stephens written in the early 2000s. Poetry features San Francisco Bay Area life and locations, including Carmel, Marin County, and Berkeley. The book includes a section of translations by Horace, Tu Fu, Wang Wei, Li Po, Su Tung-P'o, and Lu...
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Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender,This compassionate, constructive volume by renowned author Joy Ladin collects eleven essays written between 2008, on the cusp of what Time called America's "transgender tipping point," and 2021, as anti-trans laws began metastasizing around America. Dr. Ladin, the first openly transgender employee of an...
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the WorldFrom the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster's Wife and other novels comes a collection of essays written during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the author sheltered in place in his tiny Vermont town, he observed and documented neighbors helping neighbors, the joys of...
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New Inventions and the Latest InnovationsSatirical yet prophetical advertisements for imaginary new products, influential to Marcel Duchamp and Francis PicabiaOriginally published in book form in 1916, this volume of French author Gaston de Pawlowski's (1874-1933) writings, New Inventions and the Latest Innovations, collects the humorist's fictional columns mocking his...
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Matthew Thornton Of New Hampshire: A Patriot Of The American Revolution (1903)""Matthew Thornton of New Hampshire: A Patriot of the American Revolution"" is a historical biography written by Charles Thornton Adams and originally published in 1903. The book tells the story of Matthew Thornton, a prominent figure in the American Revolution and one of the...
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Letters from Prague: 1939-1941Their discovery of a box of letters to America sent from relatives in Prague led two sisters to compile this extraordinary collection. Raya Schapiro and Helga Weinberg found the letters among their mother's effects after her death in 1990. They were written by their...
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