Literary
Literary works linger long after the last page, weaving together rich language, complex characters, and ideas that stretch across history, philosophy, and the human condition. Here you'll find everything from ancient epics and timeless plays to sweeping historical narratives and thoughtful guides that illuminate how great writing works its quiet magic.
Literary Kirjayhteenvedot
A Far-Flung Life
A shattered man raises his sister's child on an outback sheep station, hiding one ruinous secret.
Historiallinen fiktio
Australia
Kaunokirjallisuus
Perhe
Aikuiset
Immersiiviset
A Far-Flung Life
A shattered man raises his sister's child on an outback sheep station, hiding one ruinous secret.
Historiallinen fiktio
Australia
Kaunokirjallisuus
Perhe
Aikuiset
Samarkand
A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.
Historiallinen fiktio
Lähi-itä
Kirjallisuus
Historiallinen
Kaunokirjallisuus
Samarkand
A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.
Historiallinen fiktio
Lähi-itä
Kirjallisuus
Historiallinen
Kaunokirjallisuus
The Iliad / The Odyssey
We know nothing of Homer. So his epics became a mirror every civilization fills with itself.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Historia
Kirjoja kirjoista
Mytologia
The Iliad / The Odyssey
We know nothing of Homer. So his epics became a mirror every civilization fills with itself.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Historia
Kirjoja kirjoista
Mytologia
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
Free will, the Ring's corruption, and the rescue no one earned: philosophers on Middle-earth.
Filosofia
Esseet
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kirjallisuus
Literary
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
Free will, the Ring's corruption, and the rescue no one earned: philosophers on Middle-earth.
Filosofia
Esseet
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kirjallisuus
Literary
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are the psyche's purest mirrors; von Franz shows us how to read the glass.
Psykologia
Sadut
Mytologia
Filosofia
Literary
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are the psyche's purest mirrors; von Franz shows us how to read the glass.
Psykologia
Sadut
Mytologia
Filosofia
Literary
The Flea Palace
At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Nykykirjallisuus
World Literature
Romaanit
Urbaani
The Flea Palace
At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Nykykirjallisuus
World Literature
Romaanit
Urbaani
Twilight and Philosophy
A vampire romance whose real subject is free will, personhood, and the cost of forever.
Filosofia
Vampyyrit
Esseet
Akateeminen maailma
Kirjoja kirjoista
Twilight and Philosophy
A vampire romance whose real subject is free will, personhood, and the cost of forever.
Filosofia
Vampyyrit
Esseet
Akateeminen maailma
Kirjoja kirjoista
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Reading shortcuts that turn road trips into quests, weather into meaning, and meals into symbols.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kirjallisuus
Kasvatus
Kirjoittaminen
Tietokirjat
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Reading shortcuts that turn road trips into quests, weather into meaning, and meals into symbols.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kirjallisuus
Kasvatus
Kirjoittaminen
Tietokirjat
Orientalism
Western knowledge of the East was never innocent: it invented the Orient to justify imperial rule.
Politiikka
Historia
Teoria
Filosofia
Sosiologia
Orientalism
Western knowledge of the East was never innocent: it invented the Orient to justify imperial rule.
Politiikka
Historia
Teoria
Filosofia
Sosiologia
A Long Petal of the Sea
A medic marries his brother's pregnant partner to escape Franco's Spain on a rescue ship.
Historiallinen fiktio
Kaunokirjallisuus
Historiallinen
Sota
Espanja
A Long Petal of the Sea
A medic marries his brother's pregnant partner to escape Franco's Spain on a rescue ship.
Historiallinen fiktio
Kaunokirjallisuus
Historiallinen
Sota
Espanja
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.
Filosofia
Klassikot
Taide
Esseet
Teoria
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.
Filosofia
Klassikot
Taide
Esseet
Teoria
The Hands of the Emperor
A bureaucrat invites his lonely god-emperor on holiday, and the mask of divinity begins to slip.
Fantasia
High Fantasy
Aikuiset
Queer
Lgbt
The Hands of the Emperor
A bureaucrat invites his lonely god-emperor on holiday, and the mask of divinity begins to slip.
Fantasia
High Fantasy
Aikuiset
Queer
Lgbt
Koottu Sherlock Holmes
Sharing Baker Street, a reclusive genius and a war-weary doctor solve the crimes that baffle London.
Klassikot
Mysteeri
Rikos
Dekkari
Novellit
Koottu Sherlock Holmes
Sharing Baker Street, a reclusive genius and a war-weary doctor solve the crimes that baffle London.
Klassikot
Mysteeri
Rikos
Dekkari
Novellit
Käytöksen säännöt
A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.
Historiallinen fiktio
Kaunokirjallisuus
Historiallinen
Lukupiiri
New York
Käytöksen säännöt
A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.
Historiallinen fiktio
Kaunokirjallisuus
Historiallinen
Lukupiiri
New York
Nobody Knows My Name
Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.
Rotu
Afroamerikkalainen
Muistelmat
Historia
Klassikot
Nobody Knows My Name
Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.
Rotu
Afroamerikkalainen
Muistelmat
Historia
Klassikot
The Basketball Diaries
A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.
Muistelmat
Omaelämäkerta
Huumeet
Riippuvuus
Kasvutarina
The Basketball Diaries
A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.
Muistelmat
Omaelämäkerta
Huumeet
Riippuvuus
Kasvutarina
Power, Politics and Culture
The scholar who revealed how Western learning became a tool of empire, in his own words.
Politiikka
Filosofia
Historia
Culture
Kirjallisuus
Power, Politics and Culture
The scholar who revealed how Western learning became a tool of empire, in his own words.
Politiikka
Filosofia
Historia
Culture
Kirjallisuus
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Not reading is a creative strategy, not a failure. A French critic makes the case.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Filosofia
Esseet
Kirjallisuus
Kirjoittaminen
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Not reading is a creative strategy, not a failure. A French critic makes the case.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Filosofia
Esseet
Kirjallisuus
Kirjoittaminen
Mark Twain
America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.
Elämäkerrat
Historia
Kirjallisuus
Amerikkalainen
Kirjoittaminen
Mark Twain
America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.
Elämäkerrat
Historia
Kirjallisuus
Amerikkalainen
Kirjoittaminen
Charles Dickens in Love
Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.
Elämäkerrat
Historia
Kirjallisuus
British
Viktoriaaninen
Charles Dickens in Love
Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.
Elämäkerrat
Historia
Kirjallisuus
British
Viktoriaaninen
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
Kirjoittaminen
Esseet
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kirjallisuus
Literary
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
Kirjoittaminen
Esseet
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kirjallisuus
Literary
The Facts
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
Muistelmat
Omaelämäkerta
Elämäkerrat
Kirjallisuus
Amerikkalainen
The Facts
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
Muistelmat
Omaelämäkerta
Elämäkerrat
Kirjallisuus
Amerikkalainen
Why Bob Dylan Matters
A classicist reveals the ancient texts hidden inside Bob Dylan's most famous lyrics.
Musiikki
Elämäkerrat
Kirjallisuus
Runous
Klassikot
Why Bob Dylan Matters
A classicist reveals the ancient texts hidden inside Bob Dylan's most famous lyrics.
Musiikki
Elämäkerrat
Kirjallisuus
Runous
Klassikot
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.
Filosofia
Klassikot
Draama
Kirjallisuus
Historia
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.
Filosofia
Klassikot
Draama
Kirjallisuus
Historia
Ashes of Man
A broken hero returns to an empire as an alien prophet unites the enemy for annihilation.
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Avaruusooppera
Fantasia
Aikuiset
Sota
Ashes of Man
A broken hero returns to an empire as an alien prophet unites the enemy for annihilation.
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Avaruusooppera
Fantasia
Aikuiset
Sota
Слушай песню ветра. Пинбол 1973
A fading Japanese summer. Two friends, a bar, and the quiet ache of nowhere to go.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Japani
Maaginen realismi
Nykykirjallisuus
Romaanit
Слушай песню ветра. Пинбол 1973
A fading Japanese summer. Two friends, a bar, and the quiet ache of nowhere to go.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Japani
Maaginen realismi
Nykykirjallisuus
Romaanit
The Witch's Heart
A witch, burned and reborn, builds a life with Loki until prophecy marks her children for death.
Fantasia
Mytologia
Uudelleenkerronnat
Noidat
Romantiikka
The Witch's Heart
A witch, burned and reborn, builds a life with Loki until prophecy marks her children for death.
Fantasia
Mytologia
Uudelleenkerronnat
Noidat
Romantiikka
Gabriel García Márquez
The craft behind the curse: how magical realism, circular time, and prophecy hold Macondo together.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Literary
Kirjallisuus
Analyysi
Klassikot
Gabriel García Márquez
The craft behind the curse: how magical realism, circular time, and prophecy hold Macondo together.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Literary
Kirjallisuus
Analyysi
Klassikot
Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro
Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.
Kirjallisuus
Esseet
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kirjoittaminen
Klassikot
Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro
Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.
Kirjallisuus
Esseet
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kirjoittaminen
Klassikot
Los jefes / Los cachorros
A Lima boy survives a dog mauling. His friends' nickname becomes a wound that never heals.
Novellit
Kaunokirjallisuus
Kirjallisuus
Klassikot
Kasvutarina
Los jefes / Los cachorros
A Lima boy survives a dog mauling. His friends' nickname becomes a wound that never heals.
Novellit
Kaunokirjallisuus
Kirjallisuus
Klassikot
Kasvutarina
Walt Whitman
A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.
Elämäkerrat
Runous
Kirjallisuus
Historia
Amerikkalainen
Walt Whitman
A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.
Elämäkerrat
Runous
Kirjallisuus
Historia
Amerikkalainen
Best American Essays 2018
The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.
Esseet
Antologiat
2000-luku
Kokoelmat
Kirjoittaminen
Best American Essays 2018
The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.
Esseet
Antologiat
2000-luku
Kokoelmat
Kirjoittaminen
An Ideal Husband
A blackmailer holds a politician's secret sin and demands a corrupt vote in return for silence.
Näytelmät
Klassikot
Draama
Huumori
Teatteri
An Ideal Husband
A blackmailer holds a politician's secret sin and demands a corrupt vote in return for silence.
Näytelmät
Klassikot
Draama
Huumori
Teatteri
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Literary
Esseet
Kirjallisuus
Kirjoittaminen
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Literary
Esseet
Kirjallisuus
Kirjoittaminen
Mile Marker Zero
1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.
Historia
Elämäkerrat
Matkailu
Musiikki
Popkulttuuri
Mile Marker Zero
1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.
Historia
Elämäkerrat
Matkailu
Musiikki
Popkulttuuri
So Long a Letter
Her husband dead, a Senegalese widow writes one long letter, untangling years of love and betrayal.
Klassikot
Kaunokirjallisuus
Feminismi
Afrikka
Women
So Long a Letter
Her husband dead, a Senegalese widow writes one long letter, untangling years of love and betrayal.
Klassikot
Kaunokirjallisuus
Feminismi
Afrikka
Women
Tacitus' Annals
Tacitus turned history into a mirror for tyrants. Here is how to read his darkest masterpiece.
Historia
Classical
Literary
Kirjoja kirjoista
Politiikka
Tacitus' Annals
Tacitus turned history into a mirror for tyrants. Here is how to read his darkest masterpiece.
Historia
Classical
Literary
Kirjoja kirjoista
Politiikka
The Bone People
A mute boy breaks into a hermit's coastal tower, and three solitudes begin to heal.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Maaginen realismi
Lukupiiri
Nykykirjallisuus
New Zealand
The Bone People
A mute boy breaks into a hermit's coastal tower, and three solitudes begin to heal.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Maaginen realismi
Lukupiiri
Nykykirjallisuus
New Zealand
Why Poetry
The case for reading poems exactly as they are: literally, without hunting for hidden meanings.
Runous
Kirjoittaminen
Esseet
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kieli
Why Poetry
The case for reading poems exactly as they are: literally, without hunting for hidden meanings.
Runous
Kirjoittaminen
Esseet
Kirjoja kirjoista
Kieli
Anne McCaffrey
How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.
Elämäkerrat
Kirjoittaminen
Kirjailijat
Kirjoja kirjoista
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Anne McCaffrey
How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.
Elämäkerrat
Kirjoittaminen
Kirjailijat
Kirjoja kirjoista
Tieteiskirjallisuus
American Exceptionalism
How a Puritan theology of chosenness became the alibi for a continent's conquest and distant wars.
Historia
Yhdysvallat
Politiikka
Literary
Uskonto
American Exceptionalism
How a Puritan theology of chosenness became the alibi for a continent's conquest and distant wars.
Historia
Yhdysvallat
Politiikka
Literary
Uskonto
The Inklings
An Oxford circle drank, argued, and read their stories aloud. Out came Narnia and Middle-earth.
Elämäkerrat
Historia
Kirjallisuus
Kristillinen
Kirjoittaminen
The Inklings
An Oxford circle drank, argued, and read their stories aloud. Out came Narnia and Middle-earth.
Elämäkerrat
Historia
Kirjallisuus
Kristillinen
Kirjoittaminen
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Nathan Price never narrates: inside the five-woman chorus that indicts a missionary's arrogance.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Tietokirjat
Kirjallisuus
Literary
Academics
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Nathan Price never narrates: inside the five-woman chorus that indicts a missionary's arrogance.
Kirjoja kirjoista
Tietokirjat
Kirjallisuus
Literary
Academics
Panenka
Nicknamed for a missed penalty, a terminally ill man tries to earn back his daughter's love.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Nykykirjallisuus
Irlanti
Aikuiset
Romaanit
Panenka
Nicknamed for a missed penalty, a terminally ill man tries to earn back his daughter's love.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Nykykirjallisuus
Irlanti
Aikuiset
Romaanit
