Literary Collections
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Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert
$30.00 Read moreGathered 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 Read moreThe 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 Add to cartAuthor, 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
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Hopkins: Poems
$20.00 Read moreA beautiful, small format hardcover edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of the great stylists in English poetry. AN EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY POCKET POET.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, who was known during his l- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets #0
- Author: Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0679444696
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$22.00 Add to cartRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before hi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0679642323
- Language: English
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An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
$40.00 Read moreNever before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry.
Collected here is a comprehensive representation- Author: Davis, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0674072227
- Language: English
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The Essential Tagore
$30.00 Read moreThe Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.
Marking the- Author: Tagore, Rabindranath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0674417046
- Language: English
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A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
$23.95 Read moreA Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pa
- Author: Alshaer, Atef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863569900
- Language: English
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Hemingway on Fishing
$30.00 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
The first and only collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s writings on America’s great passion–fishing–introduced and edited by Nick Lyons with a foreword by Jack- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1476716412
- Language: English
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Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
$125.00 Read moreFerdowsi’s classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes an… [more below]
- Author: Ferdowsi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1631494465
- Language: English
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Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Irrealis mood- Author: Aciman, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829283
- Language: English
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition
$24.95 Read moreA revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life.
UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1681375834
- Language: English
