Literary Collections - General

Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French...

Unhoodwinked is a novel authored by Ms. Mahdoran Moyyerri who is living in Iran. This novel discusses the social issues of Iran over the last 35 years. Resistance of women to gender inequalities is an important part of this novel.Author: Mahdoran MoayyerriISBN-10: 1983980951ISBN-13: 9781983980954Publisher:...

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much so in the latter...

Thoughts and Ideas is a book of poems and short essays where the author, P.J. Victor, decided to open up and share with us his beliefs. As the title indicates, they are his thoughts and ideas of the day when he wrote that particular...

The book is a roman à thèse, or a novel with a thesis -- which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities. The general reader whose attention has not been specially drawn to the subject...

In this novel, the characters of Plantagenet Palliser, his wife Lady Glencora and their uncle the ailing Duke of Omnium are in the background. The plot centres on Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace and is soon left...

Uncertainty, fear, prayer and curiosity - transparent elements of the 2020 world pandemic. Coupled with racial unrest and a future of economic upheaval, this work by 13 North Carolina writers is a two-month snapshot - raw, transparent, yet full of hope.Author: North Carolina Writers...

This nostalgic collection of poems is a reminiscent episode of peoples lives. Both factual and fictional circumstances flow through the written verses of Janice N. Chapman's poetry. This book belongs in everyone's collection! Give family and friends a copy of it as a gift....

Balu & Company are the events that take place in the life of Balu and growing up in a little town in India. It shows us simple realities of life and the joys of growing up in a close knit community.Author: Geetha NarayananISBN-10: 1974043037ISBN-13:...

"A baby cheetah appears on your porch and asks for a sandwich."WriteOn Joliet members attacked this prompt with gusto and produced the most varied and imaginative pieces ever found in a single anthology.The stories, essays, and poems on these pages address free range diners,...

In Winthrow and Salvage, Randall Freisinger shifts his always engaging voice to a minor key to focus on aging and loss, on our place in the universal entropy. There is much here about human fallibility, suffering, and sorrow, always examined with insight and empathy....

Author: Barbara Ellen SorensenISBN-10: 1949229157ISBN-13: 9781949229158Publisher: Kelsay BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2018Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

Adrian Ernesto Cepeda's first poetry collection Flashes and Verses...Becoming Attractions uniquely waxes lyrical on such pop cultural icons as Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holliday, Muhammad Ali and David Bowie. He also crafts the most dynamic ekphrastic poems inspired by photos and artwork by Helmut Newton,...

Barking Sycamores: Year Two continues an ongoing tradition of collecting literature and artwork by neurodivergent creatives published in the online journal, and sharing this body of work with the world in an annual anthology. Year Two includes poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, hybrid genre...

2016 was our third year as an active writers group and was our most ambitious one so far. In March, we offered a "Writing Romance" workshop and a "Getting Published" seminar in May. In September, we published a new book - Our Traditions: A...

A new edition of the classic biographical study of the commander in chief of the military forces of the Confederate States Army, Robert Edward Lee. Meticulously researched and prepared with access to official documents and the subject's personal notes, the author-himself a senior ranking...

'The Celtic Twilight' can read simply as an anthropological compilation of beliefs and superstitions, a fascinating, entertaining and sometimes hilarious journey through the dreamlike world of Irish faery and folklore, as related to Yeats by the peasants of County Sligo at the end of...

'Hunting Snipes +four' is a collection of five great novellas, an award winning anthology, that transports a reader's imagination to worlds non découvert- an Indian raid in West Texas in 1867, encounters with the ghost of Cole Porter, Iowa during the 2020 pandemic, southern...

A twenty-first century trickster, Ken Jones, in "Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters," makes music from the rubbish left after our rebellions against culture and epistemology. His pastiches are full of justice and play. And song. And that's more than enough. Alan Ainsworth, Chair, English,...

Author: Duane L. HerrmannISBN-10: 1879448211ISBN-13: 9781879448216Publisher: Buffalo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2019Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.24d

Straight is the first in Michael O'Leary's trilogy, Dreamlander Express. It is the story of Paul Calvert who returns to his hometown, Auckland, after being away in 'dreamland' for several years. He discovers that all the things he knew about the family he grew...

Barry Lyndon is Thackeray's first novel, already displaying the sharp characterisation and vigorous satire that were to make his later novels so successful.Author: William Makepeace ThackerayISBN-10: 1847188117ISBN-13: 9781847188113Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2008Pages: 259Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.70w x 0.60d

The Belton Estate appears a conventional enough story of romantic decision between social standing and worth of character. Its subplot concerning a divorced woman, however, shows Trollope's progressive tolerance of unconventional social behaviour.Author: Anthony TrollopeISBN-10: 1847186777ISBN-13: 9781847186775Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2008Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Here's a book that will appeal to all well-read individuals, at many levels, for many reasons. For starters, as an anthology it is a collection of texts--both fiction and non-fiction-that are just plain engaging, intrinsically so, whoever the author. No wonder, since they are...

Here's a book that will appeal to all well-read individuals, at many levels, for many reasons. For starters, as an anthology it is a collection of texts--both fiction and non-fiction-that are just plain engaging, intrinsically so, whoever the author. No wonder, since they are...

Over the course of a year, Paul Busst wrote a very short story every day based on a set of self-defined rules. From the traditional to the surreal, this collection of 365 bitesize stories will enthral readers of all tastes. Dip in and out...

Facets brings to you a varied collection of poetry written by Keith E Sparks Jr. Beginning with aspects of love lost, found, or unrequited, and bringing them alive in a unique manner that can wind is way through darkness as well as light. Highlighting...

The dead can't sing your praise.The songs you would like to hear.We grieve here as you fade like shadows. Acclaimed poet Shahab Ahmed returns with another diverse collection of poems. Shahab looks at many aspects of the modern world and how that mixes with...

Written over a period of thirty or so years, from 1985 to 2015, the poems, prose, photographs, philosophy and more: the coming together of many diverse 'flavours and fillings', seek to focus on the myriad events, trials, tribulations, terrors and triumphs, minor and major,...

Maria Stuart, described as Schiller's most perfect play, is a finely balanced, inventive account of the last day of the captive Queen of Scotland, caught up in a great contest for the throne of England after the death of Henry VIII and over the...

The Fuse Box gathers essays from the writing community to shine fresh light on the creative process. Editors Emily Perkins and Chris Price have invited some of our best writers to share their strategies for staying plugged in and switched on. From the instigating...

This book of poetry collection speaks to my quest for love and belonging. In my formative years I confined myself to a place of lack, negating the abundance of the power existed within me. It may be argued that in some point in our...

Australia's master storyteller takes us all around the country, uncovering tales of unsolved crimes, early exploration and military exploits, fascinating natural phenomena and iconic destinations. Wherever you go in Australia, you'll stumble across traces of ancient settlement, remnants of exploration, yarns from the roaring...

Those who are regular readers -- or those who are addicted to books -- may have their own favorite titles from years or decades past and they often go back to re-read their favorites. George Orwell said that there was never a year went...

When Love Was explores memories that haunt our bodies, our muscles, our bones, our breath, and our blood. Memories that cling to our souls. The fragmented narrative follows two characters, an unnamed man, who carries the pain of his past experiences and the pain...

The Jungle Book de Rudyard Kipling es una colección de historias, publicadas entre 1893 y 1894, donde la aventura, el exotismo y la amistad child temas centrales. Mowgli, el "hombre cachorro", la pantera negra Bagheera y Baloo, un oso majestuoso y amable, child los...

Look well within thyself. From thine fullness of joy doeth spring the lamp of Love kindled with the burning fire of light, and the Lamp of life kindled with the burning fire of sunrise. From thine fullness of joy doeth spring the joy Singing...

The book is real and doesn't try to hide itself. Casually waiting in the wings to pop up and and say 'here I am'. The front covering represents the water of life and the back represents the bread of life in motion. Both referring...

This book is dedicated to everyone who has experienced emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical pain. This book is also dedicated to lyricists and writers across the globe. I hope that this book will lift you higher, transform your minds, and most of all touch...

"The mesmerizing tale you are about to read is full of insights, tips and tricks how to land in the best universities around the globe, i.e. in France, Brazil, and Mexico without parents' financial help, student credits, or budget but using only your head...

Kenya went to the polls on December 27, 2007. The incumbent president was declared the winner. The opposition protested the results. They took to the streets bringing all businesses to a standstill. Violence broke out in major Towns in Kenya. In western Kenya where...

Ernest Hemingway won both the Pulitzer and the Nobel Prizes. Four of his books are considered Classics of American Literature. He wrote over seventy short stories and some are still taught in college. For decades literary scholars and biographers have written about his work....

We all have an idea of family and not necessarily the same idea. Sometimes family means just our relatives. But sometimes family means even more. Inside these pages you will find stories involving friends, family and . . . others. Turn back the cover...

PORTUGUÊS: Em alto mar feito palco de poemas metafóricos não acidentalmente inspirados em seus elementos mais recorrentes; a água, o vento e a brisa, a calmaria e a tempestade, a chuva, a noite e o dia, a manhã e o pôr do sol. Quantas...

Take a trip with the from El Salvador to East L.A. and finally to Texas in this premiere collection of poems by a man who escaped the fate of many in the barrios of La Lucha and turned those experiences into poetry. This book...

Andrew Lang, FBA was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.Author: Andrew...

Central Texas Writers Society's first anthology of local contributed works and beyond.Author: Nicole Marie MettsISBN-10: 1721561633ISBN-13: 9781721561636Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2018Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.10d

Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by its occupants, Nance and her criminal boyfriend, Tom Dorgan, are pulling a con when the book begins. The results of...

Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening the volume is "The Piazza," a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. "Benito Cereno" -- a subversive satire...

Poetics is one of Aristotle's greatest works; the philosopher's grand and insightful essay on art and its purposes. Why must a story have a beginning, a middle, and an end? How can we define tragedy, and what is the artistic purpose of it? Is...