Literary Collections
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic
$12.95 Read moreA compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and more
In the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson’s prose- Series: Library of America
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1598530844
- Language: English
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
$16.95 Read moreExtracts from two of Bell’s most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters
A woman far ahead of her time,
- Author: Bell, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1843915472
- Language: English
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Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures
$14.95 Read moreIn her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, … [more below]
- Author: Goodison, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1912408139
- Language: English
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Limber
$17.95 Read more“What a strange and unexpected treasure chest this is, filled with all manner of quirky revelations, all about the mundane sublime and the ineffable extraordinary. Most extraordinary of all, perhaps,
- Author: Pelster, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1936747758
- Language: English
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Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
$16.95 Read moreJenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood … [more below]
- Author: Erpenbeck, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229327
- Language: English
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Quotes That Will Change Your L
$17.95 Read moreThe right quotation can change your life. That condensed idea–expressed in just a few words or a sentence or two–can shift your thinking, trigger an epiphany, and alter your way of seeing the world.
- Author: Kick, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1590035100
- Language: English
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Select Practical Writings of Robert Traill
$10.00 Read moreRobert Traill (1642-1716) lived to span the ripest period of the Puritan age. Distinguished in the classes of Edinburgh University, Traill early felt the inner constraint to preach Christ. Although he… [more below]
- Series: Puritan Paperbacks #56
- Author: Traill, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 297
- Publish Date: June 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1848718497
- Language: English
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First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100
$21.95 Read more“First and Wildest is an elegant, impassioned, and timely tribute to its remarkable past and present.”
–MICHELLE NIJHUIS
In the summer of 1922, Aldo Leopold traveled on horseback up into the headwate
- Author: Allen, Elizabeth Hightower
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1948814552
- Language: English
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The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba
$17.00 Read moreTeeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel ﾁlvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in L
- Author: Álvarez, Carlos Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450909
- Language: English
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Time for Everything: My Curious Life
$22.00 Read moreIn his previous book, Claremont Boy (Bauhan Publishing 2014), Joe Steinfield shared stories about a variety of subjects–family members and other people in his life, his love of sports, travel, and th
- Author: Steinfield, Joseph D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0872333620
- Language: English
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The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust
$20.00 Read moreHow do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up with parents who survived the most unimaginable horrors of family separation, systematic murder and unending encounters of inhumanity… [more below]
- Author: Benn, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1947951505
- Language: English
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The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980
$25.00 Read moreTwo sisters, an artist and a poet, describe the contours of their lives among New York’s artistic avant-garde through an intimate collection of letters
This collection of the correspondence between art
- Author: Mayer, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 373
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0999505963
- Language: English
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Notes to My Mother-In-Law
$13.95 Read more‘My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.’
It took a while before the family realised that Annie was increasingly (as she would put it) ‘Mutt and Jeff’. So Phylli
- Author: Law, Phyllida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0007338422
- Language: English
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Sunshine State: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay – Finalist for the Southern Book Prize
A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A N
- Author: Gerard, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 006243487X
- Language: English
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Peer Gynt and Brand
$17.00 Read moreA new Penguin edition of Ibsen’s two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill.
These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his rep- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0141197587
- Language: English
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Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward f
$18.00 Read more“As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now.” –Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming
“The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to r- Author: Eric-Udorie, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0143132377
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
$14.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0199753636
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
$27.43 Add to cartIrreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook–an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race–contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales … [more below]
- Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #2
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0520242459
- Language: English
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In Conversation, 2020-2021: Dialogues with Artists, Curators, and Scholars
$30.00 Read moreCollected Zoom transcripts from critical talks held by artists and thinkers during lockdown
Compiling deep-dive conversations originally broadcast live on Zoom during the height of the pandemic, this v
- Author: Byers, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1735230537
- Language: English
