Literary Collections
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Just What the Doctor Disordered: Early Writings & Cartoons of Dr. Seuss
$14.95 Add to cartBefore his worldwide fame as a bestselling children’s author, Theodor Seuss Geisel was a prolific writer and cartoonist for humor magazines of the early twentieth century. The creator of Green Eggs an… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
- Author: Dr Seuss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: December 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0486498468
- Language: English
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Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$24.00 Read moreThe first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters'” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Provides an occasion to revisit- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271131
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting
$17.99 Read moreJane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able… [more below]
- Series: Read and Reflect with the Classics
- Author: Prior, Karen Swallow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1462796680
- Language: English
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The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia
$25.00 Read moreA compendium of quotes and riffs by P.J. O’Rourke on
subjects ranging from government (“Giving money and power to politicians is
like giving car keys and whiskey to teenage boys”) to fishing (“a sport
in… [more below]- Author: O’Rourke, P. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160646
- Language: English
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South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South
$29.95 Read moreThis anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the … [more below]
- Author: Aryal, Khem K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1680032968
- Language: English
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The Nobel Lecture
$17.99 Read morePublished for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan.
On October 13, 2016, Bob Dylan was a- Author: Dylan, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1501189409
- Language: English
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The Second Body
$18.00 Read moreEvery living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also to be embedded in a worldwide network of ecosystems. Whe… [more below]
- Author: Hildyard, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1910695475
- Language: English
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Just Us: An American Conversation
$30.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation–Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increas- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1644450216
- Language: English
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Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
$17.99 Add to cart“The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knitters. They share their knitting triumphs and disasters as well as their life triumphs and disasters..
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 039334987X
- Language: English
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The Thorny Grace of It: And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics
$14.95 Add to cartBest-selling and award-winning essayist Brian Doyle knows that the heartbeat of Catholicism is found not in papal decrees and pageantry, but in the parish halls, potluck dinners, and the believing com… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0829439064
- Language: English
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CHI Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings
$21.95 Read moreIn Chi Boy, Keenan Norris melds memoir, cultural criticism, and literary biography to indelibly depict Chicago–from the Great Migration to the present day–as both a cradle of black intellect, art, a… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Norris, Keenan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258530
- Language: English
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Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
$21.99 Read moreA new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood.
Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commenta
- Author: Lewis, Jenifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 006307964X
- Language: English
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This Is Not a Novel and Other Novels
$19.95 Add to cartDavid Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called “hypnotic,” “stunning,” and “exhilarating” and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallac… [more below]
- Author: Markson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027143
- Language: English
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Seneca: Selected Letters
$13.95 Add to cartSeneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca’s personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Sto… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199533210
- Language: English
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Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
$19.95 Read more“A powerful celebration of poets…Lit lovers will be dazzled.”
Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for b
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0807012726
- Language: English
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Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
$16.95 Read more“This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you alre
- Author: Diamond, Morty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 1933149566
- Language: English
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The Complete Brontë Collection
$39.99 Read moreThe perfect gift for any Bront Sisters lover for only 19.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Bront Sisters’ best and much-loved works. Beautifu… [more below]
- Series: Wordsworth Box Sets
- Author: Bront?, Anne
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 2608
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1840227907
- Language: English
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On Animals
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.- Author: Orlean, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1982181532
- Language: English
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Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
$23.00 Read moreA collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis
In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has be- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858828
- Language: English
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Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
$36.00 Add to cartFragments is an event–an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe
- Author: Monroe, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533784
- Language: English
