Literary Collections
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Letters from an American Farmer
$14.95 Add to cartWritten by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: “What, then, is the American, this new man?”, as a new nation took shape b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554749
- Language: English
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Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South
$18.00 Add to cartIn this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg muses o… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593310802
- Language: English
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Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
$32.95 Read moreJ. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
J. G. Ballard was a colossal fig- Author: Ballard, J. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048329
- Language: English
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What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt
$26.99 Add to cartInternationally renowned as one of the twentieth century’s foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely private. Though she often acknowledged that the language of poetry–especiall
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324090529
- Language: English
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A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings
$31.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America.
For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been- Author: Noonan, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593854772
- Language: English
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice
$16.95 Read morePoetry. Literary Criticism. A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished practitioners, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO PROSE POETRY is as personal and provocati… [more below]
- Author: McDowell, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0978984889
- Language: English
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If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
$24.99 Add to cart“If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale.”
This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deepl
- Author: Alareer, Refaat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1682196216
- Language: English
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Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022
$40.00 Add to cartThe journals of the Nobel Prize-winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings
For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small- Author: Pamuk, Orhan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593801245
- Language: English
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Life’s Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls
$17.99 Add to cartFast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Conn
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079452
- Language: English
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Intervals
$19.95 Add to cartWhat makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker’s mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. S
- Author: Brooker, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1804270830
- Language: English
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Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
$25.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books
From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and Nati- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538768917
- Language: English
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I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartFrom standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumult
- Author: Mayer, Youngmi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316569232
- Language: English
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The Book Against Death
$16.95 Add to cartThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death.
- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237990
- Language: English
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Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
$16.00 Read moreIn this bestselling tour de force of a culinary manifesto, Great British Bake Off alum and former Guardian columnist Ruby Tandoh will help you fall back in love with food–from a great selection of re… [more below]
- Author: Tandoh, Ruby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593466810
- Language: English
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Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction
$38.00 Read moreAs defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditio
- Series: Integrative Natural History Series, Sponsored by Texas Resea
- Author: Gruesser, John Cullen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430201
- Language: English
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Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us about Our Greatest President
$18.00 Read more“An intimate character portrait and fascinating inquiry into the basis of Lincoln’s energetic, curious mind.”–The Wall Street Journal
WINNER OF THE BARONDESS/LINCOLN AWARD – From the New York Times b- Author: White, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1984855115
- Language: English
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A Private Spy: The Letters of John Le Carré
$0.00 Read moreAn archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving listeners access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time
The never-before-seen correspondance of John le Ca- Author: Le Carré, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0593632745
- Language: English
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Missing Time: Essays
$16.00 Read moreOver the past few years, Ari M. Brostoff has grappled with the intellectual upheavals and political contradictions that surfaced during the Trump era. Missing Time collects five remarkable essays and … [more below]
- Author: Brostoff, Ari M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1953813046
- Language: English
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Spoon River Anthology
$12.00 Read moreIn Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly f
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Masters, Edgar Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 08 1992
- ISBN10: 0486272753
- Language: English
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Walden: Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenbourg
$28.00 Read moreBy virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 11 1993
- ISBN10: 0679418962
- Language: English
