Literary Collections

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented childr...

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experie...

From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one o...

This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years o...

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. Whites stroll around Manhattan remains the quinte...

From the #1 national bestseller comes the definitive audio treasury of great moral takes ...

Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features 80 Americans—from...

Noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days chr...

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Think...

Unleashing the Power of Creativity: A "This I Believe" Essay by Bill GatesBased on the NP...

From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, co...

Includes classical illustrations and paintings of the poets.A selection of the very best ...

Professor of Classics Victor Davis Hanson contemplates the continuity of generations in "...

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color … Since ...

"The true stories I've written in this book are my living nightmares. My greatest hope is...

The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the ...

A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of peop...

This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recor...

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century. They vary ...

This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in ...

This program is read by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Flia...

Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy Roosevelt was an American statesman, p...

Andrew Sullivan reflects on what some of America's most fundamental values mean to him in...

Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the nineteenth/twentieth...

A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of accl...

Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbookan eccentric etiquette guide f...

Eliminate the impossible, Sherlock Holmes said, and whatever is left must be the solution...

Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, during his secon...

Two books by the greatest translator of Chinese poetry, Arthur Waley (1889-1966)Arthur Wa...

When I Was a Child: A "When I Was a Child I read Books" Essat by Marilynne RobinsonMarily...

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead ...

Is it evil not to be sure? is a collection of entries from Lena Dunham's diary--or what s...

Five stories from influential women writers of the nineteenth century and the first decad...

The Gettysburg Address, delivered by Lincoln on November 19, 1863 in the aftermath of a n...

Emerson's discourse on the laws of compensation, takes on the notion that one who has mon...

At the turn of the century, the short story form gained enormous popularity. As readers l...

'Inspirational poetry' written by bernice willis

This anthology edited by the American writer, philosopher, and patron of the arts Alain L...

Authored by the most influential Indian President yet, this book delves into the obstacle...

The absorbing story of how one of the greatest directors of our time began his film-makin...

Musician Loudon Wainwright III explains that the joy in writing a song comes from the mys...

Public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator William F. Buckley, Jr...

Deidre Sullivan describes the lessons she learned from her father's advice to "Always Go ...

Frederic Reamer finds his belief in justice tested every time he faces criminals and vict...

John W. Fountain reflects on the importance of fathers, both biological and divine, in "T...

Animal expert Temple Grandin describes the benefits of the concrete thinking that accompa...

I was barely a month into my freshman year at the University of Miami, working at the stu...

Mankind can rule itself without the force of top-down authority, and freedom is more than...

From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln – here are some of history&...

First published in 1849, this essay argues that individuals have rights and duties in rel...