Literary Collections
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreGraywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles Baxter
As much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiri- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1555975089
- Language: English
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Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreBold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read–in any genre–from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy’s career will surely have noticed- Author: Percy, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1555977596
- Language: English
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Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeAcclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its
- Author: Biss, Eula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1555978231
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962 (Loa #226): Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories
$35.00 Read moreBefore winning international fame with Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his bri… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1598531506
- Language: English
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Native American Wisdom: A Spiritual Tradition at One with Nature
$18.95 Read moreAn inspiring anthology of prose, poetry and ancestral wisdom from members of 40 Native American tribes, organized alphabetically from Anishinaabeg to Zuni
Although there are major differences in the l- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1786781395
- Language: English
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Selected Letters of Abigail and John Adams
$5.00 Read more“America’s first power couple,” John and Abigail Adams enjoyed a relationship of mutual respect and affection. Their exchange of more than 1,000 letters — from their 1762 courtship to the end of John… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Adams, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486841707
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$4.95 Add to cartThis prose rendering of a poem from the late fourteenth century (or earlier) recounts an adventure undertaken by King Arthur’s famous nephew, Sir Gawain. Brave and chivalrous, faithful to his word and… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Weston, Jessie L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 53
- Publish Date: August 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0486431916
- Language: English
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Walden and Other Writings
$5.95 Add to cartWith their call for “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity “, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in al… [more below]
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 055321246X
- Language: English
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Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
$16.00 Read moreBeloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet.
Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan- Author: Coyote, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0771004303
- Language: English
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Everyday Emerson: A Year of Wisdom
$19.99 Read moreDaily inspiration from American philosopher and transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson
Featuring excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays, poems, and lectures, Everyday Emerson offers 365 snippets of- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250828791
- Language: English
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
$30.00 Read moreIn this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on ev… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 038554748X
- Language: English
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The Comedies
$16.95 Add to cart‘I thought you’d do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son’s having an affair.’
Terence’s comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from cl… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0199556032
- Language: English
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Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartA son’s poignant letter to his father–from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. – “One of the great confessions of literatur… [more below]
- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0805212663
- Language: English
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You Can’t Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk about Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
$14.99 Read moreWhat happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus probes the experience of thirteen leading authors of books for … [more below]
- Author: Marcus, Leonard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1536232971
- Language: English
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From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer
$18.95 Read moreLuis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire … [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1609809726
- Language: English
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To Be a Trans Man: Our Stories of Transition, Acceptance and Joy
$21.95 Read moreMen in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely different. It’s difficult to feel as if you fail at being a man when you know there isn’t a singular ‘ri
- Author: Woodger, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1787759601
- Language: English
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100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
$19.00 Read more100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl.
This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child c- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535671
- Language: English
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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
$24.95 Read moreDuring the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminen… [more below]
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1324090804
- Language: English
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Desire and Fate
$24.00 Add to cartAt a time when political writing and cultural criticism have come to be dominated by an insipid and unthinking moralism, David Rieff’s essays offer a bracing antidote. The writings collected in Desire… [more below]
- Author: Rieff, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1912475383
- Language: English
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Song and Self: A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performance
$22.00 Read moreAward-winning singer Ian Bostridge examines iconic works of Western classical music to reflect on the relationship between performer and audience.
Like so many performers, renowned tenor Ian Bostridg- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Author: Bostridge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022680948X
- Language: English
