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Literature/Essays/Letters/Anthologies

• M. H. Abrams - Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
• Diane Ackerman - The Book of Love
• Dohra Ahmad, editor - Rotten English: A Literary Anthology
• Robert Alter - The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
• A. Alvarez - The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
• Simon Armitage - The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic
• Hans Christian Anderson - The Annotated Hans Christian Anderson
• Simon Armitage, Translator - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Isaac Babel - The Complete Works of Isaac Babel: Edited by Nathalie Babel Translated by Peter Constantine Introduction by Cynthia Ozick
• Matthew Battles - Library: An Unquiet History
• L. Frank Baum - The Annotated Wizard of Oz: A Centennial Edition
• Thomas Beller - Before and After: Stories from New York
• Thomas Beller - How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood
• Andre Bernard - Madame Bovary, C'est Moi: The Great Characters of Literature and Where They Came From
• Andre Bernard - Now All We Need Is a Title
• Roy Blount - Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor
• Eavan Boland - Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
• Charles Bowen - Desierto
• Anthony Brandt - The Pushcart Book of Essays
• Melvin Jules Bukiet - Neurotica
• Melvin Jules Bukiet - Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
• Anthony Burgess - Re Joyce
• Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Annotated Secret Garden
• Anne Burt, editor - My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family
• Susan Cahill - Wise Women: An Anthology of Spirituality
• Rafael Campo - The Desire to Heal
• Lewis Carroll - The Annotated Alice
• Lewis Carroll - The Annotated Hunting of the Snark
• Jules Chametzky - Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology
• Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar, editors - Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
• Andrew Dalby - Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic
• Meri Nana-Ama Danquah - Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
• Guy Davenport and James Laughlin - Selected Letters
• Jodi Daynard - The Place Within
• Charles Dickens - The Annotated Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol in Prose
• Michael Dirda - Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education
• Michael Dirda - An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
• Katie Donovan - Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Adolescent
• Ross W. Duffin - Shakespeare's Songbook
• Stephen Dunn - Riffs and Reciprocities
• Joseph Epstein - Life Sentences
• Joseph Epstein - The Norton Book of Personal Essays
• William Faulkner - Mosquitoes
• William Faulkner - Soldier’s Pay
• William Faulkner - Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918–1925
• Judith Fetterley - American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology
• Jerzy Ficowski - Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, a Biographical Portrait
• Robert Finch - Nature Writing
• Noel Riley Fitch - Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
• Shelby Foote - The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
• Ford Madox Ford - Return to Yesterday
• Tom Frank - Commodify Your Dissent
• Eduardo Galeano - The Book of Embraces
• Eduardo Galeano - Walking Words
• Henry Louis Gates - The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
• Peter Gay - Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
• A. Bartlett Giamatti - Play of Double Senses: Spenser's Faerie Queene
• Sandra M. Gilbert - Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
• Archie Givens - Strong Souls Singing
• John Gould - Maine's Golden Road: A Memoir
• Don Graham, Editor - Lone Star Literature: A Texas Anthology
• Lee Gutkind, editor - The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1
• Lee Gutkind, editor - The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2
• Husain Haddawy, translator - Sindbad: And Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
• Husain Haddawy, translator - The Arabian Nights
• Patricia Hampl - I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
• Joy Harjo - Reinventing the Enemy's Language
• Gilbert A. Harrison, Editor - The Critic as Artist: Essays on Books 1920–1970
• Carolyn G. Heilbrun - Writing a Woman’s Life
• Bill Henderson - Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Second Thoughts on the Electronic Revolution
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Book of Short Stories
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XIX: Best of the Small Presses (1995 Edition)
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XX: Best of the Small Presses (1996 Edition)
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XXI: Best of the Small Presses (1997 edition)
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XXII: Best of the Small Presses (1998 edition)
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XXIII: Best of the Small Presses (1999 edition)
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XXIV: The Best of the Small Presses (2000 Edition)
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses (2001 Edition)
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses (2002 Edition)
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses (2003 Edition)
• Bill Henderson - The Pushcart Prize XXVIII: Best of the Small Presses (2004 Edition)
• Bill Henderson, Editor, With The Pushcart Prize Editors - The Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses (2005 Edition)
• Bill Henderson - Pushcart's Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections
• Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, Editors - The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology
• Homer - The Iliad
• Pam Houston - A Little More About Me
• Richard Hugo - The Triggering Town
• Clive James - As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002
• Clive James - Cultural Amnesia
• Teresa Jordan - The Stories That Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write About the West
• Helen Keller - The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic
• Adam Kirsch - The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
• Adam Kirsch - The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets
• Judith Kitchen - In Brief
• Judith Kitchen In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
• Judith Kitchen - Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction
• Bernard Knox - The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections on the Classics
• Jan Kott - Shakespeare Our Contemporary
• Brad Leithauser - The Norton Book of Ghost Stories
• Miguel Leon-Portilla - In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature, Pre-Columbian to the Present
• Polly Longsworth - The World of Emily Dickinson
• Selected Satires of Lucian
• Thomas Lynch - Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
• Thomas Lynch - The Undertaking
• Nelson Mandela, editor - Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
• Dannie M. Martin - Committing Journalism: The Prison Journals of Red Hog
• William McKeen - Rock and Roll is Here to Stay: An Anthology
• Joan Murray - The Pushcart Book of Poetry
• Joachim Neugroschel, editor and translator - The Golem: A New Translation of the Classic Play and Selected Short Stories
• Joachim Neugroschel - No Star Too Beautiful: An Anthology of Yiddish Stories 1382 to the Present
• Gloria Norris - The Seasons of Women: An Anthology
• Ovid - Metamorphoses: A New Translation by Charles Martin
• Joseph Parisi - Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters
• Robert Pinsky - Americans' Favorite Poems
• Robert Pinsky - An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology
• Robert Pinsky - Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology
• Marco Polo - The Travels of Marco Polo
• Alexandr Pushkin - The Complete Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin
• Kathleen Ragan - Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
• Kathleen Ragan, Editor - Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World
• Jahan Ramazani - The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Third Edition
• Adrienne Rich - Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
• Adrienne Rich - Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
• Adrienne Rich - On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966–1978
• Adrienne Rich - What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
• Rainer Maria Rilke - Diaries of a Young Poet
• Muriel Rukeyser - A Muriel Rukeyser Reader
• May Sarton - Dear Juliette
• May Sarton - May Sarton: Collected Letters
• May Sarton - May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1955–1995
• Robert Shapard - Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories
• Roger Shattuck - Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts
• Roger Shattuck - Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - "We Never Make Mistakes": Two Short Novels
• Stendahl - The Red and the Black
• Gertrude Stein - Fernhurst, Q.E.D. and Other Early Writings
• Gertrude Stein - Gertrude Stein's America
• Gertrude Stein - Paris France
• Jerome Stern - Radios
• Sybil S. Steinberg - Writing for Your Life #2
• Sybil S. Steinberg - Writing for Your Life #3
• Sybil S. Steinberg - Writing for Your Life #4
• Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Ellen Sussman, editor - Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave
• Maria Tatar - The Annotated Brothers Grimm
• Maria Tatar - The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
• Henry David Thoreau - Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript
• Henry David Thoreau - Letters to a Spiritual Seeker: A Nation's Struggle for Freedom
• James Thomas and Robert Shapard, editors - Flash Forward Fiction: 80 Very Short Stories
• Peter Turchi - The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work
• Erica Wagner - Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters
• George Wickes - Henry Miller and James Laughlin: Selected Letters
• Edmund Wilson - Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
• J. Peder Zane - Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading