Literary Collections
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The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Appetites: Why Women Want comes this unforgettable collection spanning fifteen years of observations on modern culture and women’s lives. Car… [more below]
- Author: Knapp, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1582433143
- Language: English
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Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the political to the aesthetic, Nobel Lectures collects the words of a quarter century of literature laureates, offering a glimpse into the inspirations, motivations, and passionately held belief… [more below]
- Author: The New Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1595584099
- Language: English
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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
$19.95 Read moreWhat Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison’s writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 160473017X
- Language: English
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Oh, to Be a Painter!
$15.00 Read moreThe twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.
Despite wide interest- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1644230585
- Language: English
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The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
$18.95 Read moreEssays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time.
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth H- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376237
- Language: English
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Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
$27.99 Read moreThe Emmy-nominated host of Netflix’s Queer Eye follows up his New York Times-bestselling memoir, Over The Top, with this collection of thought-provoking essays on grief and healing, cannabis reform, L
- Author: Van Ness, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0063082268
- Language: English
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They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets
$25.00 Read moreAt a time when institutional policies have sought to silence, marginalize, deport, or otherwise erase the existences of women of color, our poets have never been less silent. This anthology aims to sp
- Author: Kitano, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: June 03 2022
- ISBN10: 099750403X
- Language: English
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American Political Speeches
$16.00 Add to cartA selection of speeches by the most inspiring and persuasive orators in American history
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and–above all–essential reads from American political- Series: Penguin Civic Classics
- Author: Golway, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121952
- Language: English
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To Go Into the Words
$34.95 Read moreTo Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of poets such as William Bronk, Helen A
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0472039415
- Language: English
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Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
$30.00 Add to cartGathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section … [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0375711767
- Language: English
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Little Labors
$16.95 Add to cartSei Shonagon’s Pillow Book–a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen’s new book–contains a list of “Things That Make One Nervous.” And wouldn’t the blessed event top almost anyone’s list?
Little Labors is
- Author: Galchen, Rivka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0811225585
- Language: English
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Great Liberty
$14.95 Read moreA previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelist
In 1941, Julien Gracq, newly released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, wrote a series of prose poems that
- Author: Gracq, Julien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 193966389X
- Language: English
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Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
$34.99 Read moreThe definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong.
‘What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.
What do people talk most about? A Coronation.
What is- Author: Strong, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0008550069
- Language: English
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Satyajit Ray Miscellany: On Life, Cinema, People & Much More
$19.95 Read moreSatyajit Ray (1921-1992), one of the doyens of world cinema, gave a unique aesthetic expression to Indian cinema, music, art and literature. His writings, especially, autobiographical works, thoughts … [more below]
- Series: The Penguin Ray Library
- Author: Satyajit, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0143448994
- Language: English
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Forward from This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008
$17.00 Add to cartSince 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts’ writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper c… [more below]
- Author: Pitts Jr, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 349
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 1932841326
- Language: English
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Wedding Readings and Poems
$14.99 Read moreOffering indispensable ideas for wedding readings, Wedding Readings and Poems is also the perfect gift to celebrate an engagement and to share happy memories with guests.
Part of the Macmillan Collect- Author: Brown, Becky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1529052599
- Language: English
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Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-1958
$16.00 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize winner’s most influential and enduring lectures and speeches, newly translated by Quintin Hoare, in what is the first English language publication of this collection.
Albert Camus (19- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0525567232
- Language: English
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Pagan Portals – Baba Yaga, Slavic Earth Goddess
$12.95 Add to cart‘I’ve felt for a long time that there must be more in the call to Baba Yaga’s cottage than the fairytales tell us. Natalia Clarke has drawn on her Siberian heritage and personal insights in this power
- Author: Clarke, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1789048788
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
$20.00 Read moreThis definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama
Defined by waves of idealism- Author: MacArthur, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0241982308
- Language: English
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
$7.00 Read moreAuthor, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive c… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0486498824
- Language: English
