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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Billie Holiday: Jazz SingerBillie Holiday: Jazz Singer by Meredith Coleman McGee is a full-length biography from birth through the 30-year musical career of the late Great Lady Day, who became the defining voice in jazz in Harlem, New York in 1933. By the end of that decade,...
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Battle LeadershipBattle Leadership is a military leadership guidebook written by Adolph Von Schell, a German army officer who served during World War I. The book is a comprehensive guide to effective leadership in battle, covering topics such as training, discipline, communication, and decision-making. Schell draws...
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Amsterdam TalesPaul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs, and anecdotes centering on Amsterdam from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first century, which gives unique insight into the history and culture of the city. The tales within range from Rembrandt to the Jewish...
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Amazing Courage: Letters to My Father on Conquering Fear through FaithWhat does it take to find hope in the face of life's darkest moments?Amazing Courage is the fearlessly honest account of lawyer and former atheist Kyle Zunker's effort to save his father from esophageal cancer. With the raw and unedited letters Kyle wrote to...
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Aligning the Glacier's Ghost: Essays on Solitude and LandscapeRooted in Western Montana, the essays of Aligning the Glacier's Ghost navigate how sense of place intertwines with sense of self, filling geographical and personal in-betweens of identity and illness, memory and story, and intimacy and solitude. This stunning and evocative debut gives shape...
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Alan Leo's Astrology for AllAlan Leo's Astrology for All is a comprehensive guide to the principles and practices of astrology, written by the renowned British astrologer, Alan Leo. The book is designed to be accessible to readers of all levels of experience, from beginners to advanced practitioners. It...
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You're Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and MoviesWriter, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about--hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art, love, and a better haircut. When it comes to shame, Desiree Akhavan knows what she's talking about--whether it's...
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The Right Way to Do Wrong: An Expose of Successful CriminalsThe legendary Harry Houdini started the tradition of magicians debunking charlatans and revealing secrets of the trade that continues today through the likes Penn and Teller or James "The Amazing" Randi. But Houdini went even further here, in this delightful 1906 novelty: he revealed...
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The Lady's Crochet Book, Third Series (1877)The Lady's Crochet Book, Third Series is a book written by Elvina Mary Corbould and published in 1877. This book is a comprehensive guide to crochet patterns and techniques for women. It contains detailed instructions for crocheting various items such as clothing, accessories, and...
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The Heart of Things: On Memory and LamentA moving and personal anthology from the Sunday Times bestseller, encompassing melancholy, morality, mortality and moreRichard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace...
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The Entremés for Performance: Translations of One-Act Plays from Golden Age SpainThis bilingual anthology brings together a collection of Spanish entremeses, the comic interludes that were performed between the acts of a comedia. Penned by authors such as Lope de Rueda, Cervantes, Calderón, Quevedo, and Quiñones de Benavente, many of these plays appear here for...
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That's Mr. Faggot to You: Further Trials from My Queer LifeThat's Mr. Faggot to You continues Ford's exploration of contemporary gay life. He does not shy away from personal revelations--he recalls his own traumatic high school experiences but recognizes that, years later, he's happier and, more importantly, a great deal more attractive than his...
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Talk StoriesJamaica Kincaid's collected writings for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" record her first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she...
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Spires and Gargoyles: Early Writings, 1909-1919Author: F. Scott FitzgeraldPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/15/2022Pages: 310Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70dISBN: 9781009279741This title is not returnable
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Sir Charles Grandison 4 Volume SetThe History of Sir Charles Grandison was the most important English courtship novel before Austen, hugely influencing the comedy of manners genre. This edition of Richardson's final novel provides comprehensive general and textual introductions, indispensable for literary scholars of the period, along with extensive...
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Selected Poems: Dual-Language EditionFor most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes the nineteenth century's most celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was know foremost as a poet-indeed the greatest...
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Scientific hat Finishing and Renovating; a Complete and Profusely Illustrated Course of Instruction, Enabling the Novice to Acquire the art of FinishiThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Romeo and JulietFor this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new introduction. It draws on recent research in theatre to set Romeo and Juliet in its mid-1590s context, making connections with other plays by Shakespeare and other literature of...
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Rome in Crisis: Nine Lives in Plutarch: Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Sertorius, Lucullus, Younger Cato, Brutus, Antony, Galba, OBringing together nine biographies from Plutarch's Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and conqueror of Eastern kingdoms, to Otho (32-69 AD), a reckless young noble who consorted with the...
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Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and AgingIn Old Enough, twenty-one women artists and writers write about the experience of aging. Gay, straight, unmarried, partnered, widowed, Black, white, Latinx, retired, and working, these women are not squeamish about the challenges of growing older, including ageism, health concerns, and loss. And they...
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