Literary Collections
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Samuel Johnson: The Major Works
$16.95 Add to cartSamuel Johnson’s literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538336
- Language: English
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A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out
$15.00 Add to cartIn 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested for wearing men’s trousers in public. This act of rebellion was the result of a lifelong devotion to socialist and feminist thought. And thi… [more below]
- Author: Capetillo, Luisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136070
- Language: English
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The Clean House and Other Plays
$22.95 Add to cart“Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. The Clean House shines.”–New Haven Advocate
“The Clean House is not, by any means, a traditiona… [more below]
- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1559362669
- Language: English
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The Groundings with My Brothers
$21.95 Read more“I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together.” – Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney e- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1788731158
- Language: English
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95 Read moreA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0863565247
- Language: English
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The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century
$19.95 Read moreIf a serpent swallows the spittle of a fasting man, it dies. Trees felled in the wrong season breed termites. If eels are drowned in wine, those who drink it get a loathing for liquor.
These and simil… [more below]- Author: White, T. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0486246094
- Language: English
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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
$14.95 Add to cartTales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Sen?ach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dooley, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549850
- Language: English
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The Portable Beat Reader
$24.00 Add to cartBeginning in the late 1940’s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was “beat.” Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the America
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437530
- Language: English
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Micrographia
$22.00 Read moreAs Jennifer Bowering Delisle was on her path through infertility towards motherhood, she was simultaneously losing her own mother to a rare degenerative neurological disease and an approaching medical
- Author: Delisle, Jennifer Bowering
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1774220946
- Language: English
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Kjv, Sovereign Collection Bible, Personal Size, Genuine Leather, Black, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version
$109.99 Add to cartThis beautiful Bible edition honors the legacy of the King James Version Bible in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ. This ed
- Author: Thomas Nelson
- Binding: Leather
- Page Count: 1696
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0785239278
- Language: English
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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
$18.00 Add to cart“A Really Big Lunch showcases Harrison’s enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well . . . His writing is bodily, bawdy, sharp. The more we have of his voice, the
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127665
- Language: English
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Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the author of How the World Moves–the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History
In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a h- Author: Nabokov, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140281592
- Language: English
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Hughes: Poems: Edited by David Roessel
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 23 1999
- ISBN10: 0375405518
- Language: English
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
$29.95 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right-… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 159017321X
- Language: English
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Peter Hujar’s Day
$18.00 Read more“This slim volume is Peter’s sexiest self-portrait. Read it and weep if you didn’t know him. Or read it and weep if you did that we lost him.” -Nan Goldin
On December 18, 1974, the author Linda Rosenkr
- Author: Rosenkrantz, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1639442677
- Language: English
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Selected Cronicas
$16.95 Read more“In 1967, Brazil’s leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #834
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 17 1996
- ISBN10: 811213404
- Language: English
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Breaking Into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text – Revised Edition
$20.95 Add to cartA collection of seven great works of Japanese literature in the original language, along with the English translation and a newly-revised custom dictionary – plus downloadable audio.
Breaking into Jap- Author: Murray, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1568365896
- Language: English
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Father and Son
$14.95 Add to cartEdmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.” Father and Son remains one of English literature… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gosse, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539111
- Language: English
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Yellow Rain: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK- Author: Vang, Mai Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450658
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$6.95 Read moreIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to th… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486422453
- Language: English
