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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Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the CaribbeanEssays on Latinx and Caribbean identity and on globalization by renowned women writers, including Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the voices of sixteen acclaimed writer-activists for a one-of-a-kind collection. Through poetry...
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Winter of Artifice: Three NovelettesSwallow Press first published Winter of Artifice in 1945, following two vastly different versions from other presses. The book opens with a film star, Stella, studying her own, but alien, image on the screen. It ends in the Manhattan office of a psychoanalyst-the Voice-who,...
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Survivance: Narratives of Native PresenceThe concept and idea of survivance has revolutionized our understanding of the lives, creative impulses, literary practices, and histories of the Native peoples of North America. Engendered and articulated by the Anishinaabe critic and writer Gerald Vizenor, survivance throws into relief the dynamic, inventive,...
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Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian LifeSayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society. An Israeli-Palestinian who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing in Hebrew with the hope of...
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Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal WrightYoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko Tawada entitled 'Portrait of a Tongue' 'Portr t einer...
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Beginning postcolonialism: Second editionPostcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish...
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Flyover Country: PoemsA new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as "memorable" (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review) and "impressive" (Chicago Tribune) Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land,...
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Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three PlaysFilled with languid aristocrats trading witticisms as they wait for martinis, this collection of three Noel Coward plays encapsulates the qualities that made him one of the most popular playwrights of the 1930s and '40s and one of the great personalities of the century....
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Selected Poems of Rita DoveHere in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's...
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and ReviewsAuthor: Eudora WeltyPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 08/29/1990Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.76dISBN: 9780679730040About the AuthorOne of America's most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909. . She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College...
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Fires: Essays, Poems, StoriesMore than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories--later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love--are particularly notable in that between the first and the final...
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey NowWisdom from a remarkable writer who captured America's heart on Inauguration Day. Angelou tells how spirit and spirituality move and shape her life and how she celebrates the spirit of her people, talks about family, discusses how people have gone astray and how they...
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The Art of the SonnetFew poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante...
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Reflections on Exile and Other EssaysWith their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983,...
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Cinderella Sweeping UpLife is a moving, changing thing which insists we be flexible. Thankfully, we are given endless opportunities to grow and move forward when old opinions, attitudes and ambitions no longer suit who we are today. A rich and abundant history of intellectuals and artists...
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Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous TimesRadical Hope is a collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a...
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Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and OceaniaHailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has...
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Stochastic ProcessesWell-written and accessible, this classic introduction to stochastic processes and related mathematics is appropriate for advanced undergraduate students of mathematics with a knowledge of calculus and continuous probability theory. The treatment offers examples of the wide variety of empirical phenomena for which stochastic processes...
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Classic American Short StoriesExcellent examples of American fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, these stories have been chosen for their timeless relevance and enduring popularity. Arranged in chronological order, they include Herman Melville's Bartleby and The Egg by Sherwood Anderson, as well as works by Bret...
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Plato: The Man and His WorkOne of the greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato instigated groundbreaking inquiries into morality, ethics, and the quest for happiness that continue to inform and influence philosophical discussion today. In this outstanding work of scholarship, a renowned expert on Plato presents a scrupulously...
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