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 knygų santraukos
A Far-Flung Life
A shattered man raises his sister's child on an outback sheep station, hiding one ruinous secret.
Istorinė proza
Australija
Grožinė literatūra
Šeima
Suaugusiems
Įtraukiantys
A Far-Flung Life
A shattered man raises his sister's child on an outback sheep station, hiding one ruinous secret.
Istorinė proza
Australija
Grožinė literatūra
Šeima
Suaugusiems
Samarkand
A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.
Istorinė proza
Artimieji Rytai
Literatūra
Istorinė
Grožinė literatūra
Samarkand
A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.
Istorinė proza
Artimieji Rytai
Literatūra
Istorinė
Grožinė literatūra
The Iliad / The Odyssey
We know nothing of Homer. So his epics became a mirror every civilization fills with itself.
Klasika
Literatūra
Istorija
Knygos apie knygas
Mitologija
The Iliad / The Odyssey
We know nothing of Homer. So his epics became a mirror every civilization fills with itself.
Klasika
Literatūra
Istorija
Knygos apie knygas
Mitologija
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are the psyche's purest mirrors; von Franz shows us how to read the glass.
Psichologija
Pasakos
Mitologija
Filosofija
Literary
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are the psyche's purest mirrors; von Franz shows us how to read the glass.
Psichologija
Pasakos
Mitologija
Filosofija
Literary
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
Free will, the Ring's corruption, and the rescue no one earned: philosophers on Middle-earth.
Filosofija
Esė
Knygos apie knygas
Literatūra
Literary
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
Free will, the Ring's corruption, and the rescue no one earned: philosophers on Middle-earth.
Filosofija
Esė
Knygos apie knygas
Literatūra
Literary
The Flea Palace
At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.
Grožinė literatūra
Šiuolaikinė proza
World Literature
Romanai
Miesto
The Flea Palace
At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.
Grožinė literatūra
Šiuolaikinė proza
World Literature
Romanai
Miesto
Twilight and Philosophy
A vampire romance whose real subject is free will, personhood, and the cost of forever.
Filosofija
Vampyrai
Esė
Akademija
Knygos apie knygas
Twilight and Philosophy
A vampire romance whose real subject is free will, personhood, and the cost of forever.
Filosofija
Vampyrai
Esė
Akademija
Knygos apie knygas
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Reading shortcuts that turn road trips into quests, weather into meaning, and meals into symbols.
Knygos apie knygas
Literatūra
Švietimas
Rašymas
Žinynai
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Reading shortcuts that turn road trips into quests, weather into meaning, and meals into symbols.
Knygos apie knygas
Literatūra
Švietimas
Rašymas
Žinynai
A Long Petal of the Sea
A medic marries his brother's pregnant partner to escape Franco's Spain on a rescue ship.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Karas
Ispanija
A Long Petal of the Sea
A medic marries his brother's pregnant partner to escape Franco's Spain on a rescue ship.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Karas
Ispanija
Orientalism
Western knowledge of the East was never innocent: it invented the Orient to justify imperial rule.
Politika
Istorija
Teorija
Filosofija
Sociologija
Orientalism
Western knowledge of the East was never innocent: it invented the Orient to justify imperial rule.
Politika
Istorija
Teorija
Filosofija
Sociologija
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.
Filosofija
Klasika
Menas
Esė
Teorija
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.
Filosofija
Klasika
Menas
Esė
Teorija
The Hands of the Emperor
A bureaucrat invites his lonely god-emperor on holiday, and the mask of divinity begins to slip.
Fantastika
Aukštoji fantastika
Suaugusiems
Queer
Lgbt
The Hands of the Emperor
A bureaucrat invites his lonely god-emperor on holiday, and the mask of divinity begins to slip.
Fantastika
Aukštoji fantastika
Suaugusiems
Queer
Lgbt
Visas Šerlokas Holmsas
Sharing Baker Street, a reclusive genius and a war-weary doctor solve the crimes that baffle London.
Klasika
Detektyvas
Kriminalinis žanras
Detektyvas
Trumpos apsakymai
Visas Šerlokas Holmsas
Sharing Baker Street, a reclusive genius and a war-weary doctor solve the crimes that baffle London.
Klasika
Detektyvas
Kriminalinis žanras
Detektyvas
Trumpos apsakymai
Mandagumo taisyklės
A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Knygų klubas
Niujorkas
Mandagumo taisyklės
A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.
Istorinė proza
Grožinė literatūra
Istorinė
Knygų klubas
Niujorkas
Nobody Knows My Name
Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.
Rasė
Afroamerikiečių
Memuarai
Istorija
Klasika
Nobody Knows My Name
Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.
Rasė
Afroamerikiečių
Memuarai
Istorija
Klasika
The Basketball Diaries
A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.
Memuarai
Autobiografija
Narkotikai
Priklausomybė
Brendimo istorija
The Basketball Diaries
A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.
Memuarai
Autobiografija
Narkotikai
Priklausomybė
Brendimo istorija
Power, Politics and Culture
The scholar who revealed how Western learning became a tool of empire, in his own words.
Politika
Filosofija
Istorija
Culture
Literatūra
Power, Politics and Culture
The scholar who revealed how Western learning became a tool of empire, in his own words.
Politika
Filosofija
Istorija
Culture
Literatūra
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Not reading is a creative strategy, not a failure. A French critic makes the case.
Knygos apie knygas
Filosofija
Esė
Literatūra
Rašymas
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Not reading is a creative strategy, not a failure. A French critic makes the case.
Knygos apie knygas
Filosofija
Esė
Literatūra
Rašymas
Mark Twain
America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.
Biografija
Istorija
Literatūra
Amerikietiška
Rašymas
Mark Twain
America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.
Biografija
Istorija
Literatūra
Amerikietiška
Rašymas
Charles Dickens in Love
Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.
Biografija
Istorija
Literatūra
British
Viktorijos laikų
Charles Dickens in Love
Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.
Biografija
Istorija
Literatūra
British
Viktorijos laikų
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
Rašymas
Esė
Knygos apie knygas
Literatūra
Literary
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
Rašymas
Esė
Knygos apie knygas
Literatūra
Literary
The Facts
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
Memuarai
Autobiografija
Biografija
Literatūra
Amerikietiška
The Facts
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
Memuarai
Autobiografija
Biografija
Literatūra
Amerikietiška
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.
Filosofija
Klasika
Drama
Literatūra
Istorija
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.
Filosofija
Klasika
Drama
Literatūra
Istorija
Ashes of Man
A broken hero returns to an empire as an alien prophet unites the enemy for annihilation.
Mokslinė fantastika
Kosminė opera
Fantastika
Suaugusiems
Karas
Ashes of Man
A broken hero returns to an empire as an alien prophet unites the enemy for annihilation.
Mokslinė fantastika
Kosminė opera
Fantastika
Suaugusiems
Karas
Слушай песню ветра. Пинбол 1973
A fading Japanese summer. Two friends, a bar, and the quiet ache of nowhere to go.
Grožinė literatūra
Japonija
Maginis realizmas
Šiuolaikinė proza
Romanai
Слушай песню ветра. Пинбол 1973
A fading Japanese summer. Two friends, a bar, and the quiet ache of nowhere to go.
Grožinė literatūra
Japonija
Maginis realizmas
Šiuolaikinė proza
Romanai
The Witch's Heart
A witch, burned and reborn, builds a life with Loki until prophecy marks her children for death.
Fantastika
Mitologija
Perpasakojimai
Raganos
Romantika
The Witch's Heart
A witch, burned and reborn, builds a life with Loki until prophecy marks her children for death.
Fantastika
Mitologija
Perpasakojimai
Raganos
Romantika
Gabriel García Márquez
The craft behind the curse: how magical realism, circular time, and prophecy hold Macondo together.
Knygos apie knygas
Literary
Literatūra
Analizė
Klasika
Gabriel García Márquez
The craft behind the curse: how magical realism, circular time, and prophecy hold Macondo together.
Knygos apie knygas
Literary
Literatūra
Analizė
Klasika
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.
Literatūra
Esė
Knygos apie knygas
Rašymas
Klasika
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.
Literatūra
Esė
Knygos apie knygas
Rašymas
Klasika
Los jefes / Los cachorros
A Lima boy survives a dog mauling. His friends' nickname becomes a wound that never heals.
Trumpos apsakymai
Grožinė literatūra
Literatūra
Klasika
Brendimo istorija
Los jefes / Los cachorros
A Lima boy survives a dog mauling. His friends' nickname becomes a wound that never heals.
Trumpos apsakymai
Grožinė literatūra
Literatūra
Klasika
Brendimo istorija
Walt Whitman
A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.
Biografija
Poezija
Literatūra
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Walt Whitman
A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.
Biografija
Poezija
Literatūra
Istorija
Amerikietiška
Best American Essays 2018
The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.
Esė
Antologijos
XXI amžius
Rinkiniai
Rašymas
Best American Essays 2018
The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.
Esė
Antologijos
XXI amžius
Rinkiniai
Rašymas
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.
Knygos apie knygas
Literary
Esė
Literatūra
Rašymas
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.
Knygos apie knygas
Literary
Esė
Literatūra
Rašymas
Mile Marker Zero
1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.
Istorija
Biografija
Kelionės
Muzika
Populiarioji kultūra
Mile Marker Zero
1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.
Istorija
Biografija
Kelionės
Muzika
Populiarioji kultūra
So Long a Letter
Her husband dead, a Senegalese widow writes one long letter, untangling years of love and betrayal.
Klasika
Grožinė literatūra
Feminizmas
Afrika
Women
So Long a Letter
Her husband dead, a Senegalese widow writes one long letter, untangling years of love and betrayal.
Klasika
Grožinė literatūra
Feminizmas
Afrika
Women
Tacitus' Annals
Tacitus turned history into a mirror for tyrants. Here is how to read his darkest masterpiece.
Istorija
Classical
Literary
Knygos apie knygas
Politika
Tacitus' Annals
Tacitus turned history into a mirror for tyrants. Here is how to read his darkest masterpiece.
Istorija
Classical
Literary
Knygos apie knygas
Politika
The Bone People
A mute boy breaks into a hermit's coastal tower, and three solitudes begin to heal.
Grožinė literatūra
Maginis realizmas
Knygų klubas
Šiuolaikinė proza
New Zealand
The Bone People
A mute boy breaks into a hermit's coastal tower, and three solitudes begin to heal.
Grožinė literatūra
Maginis realizmas
Knygų klubas
Šiuolaikinė proza
New Zealand
The New Orientalists
Postmodernism attacked Orientalism. Then, from Nietzsche to Žižek, it built a subtler one.
Filosofija
Religija
Islamas
Literary
Istorija
The New Orientalists
Postmodernism attacked Orientalism. Then, from Nietzsche to Žižek, it built a subtler one.
Filosofija
Religija
Islamas
Literary
Istorija
Anne McCaffrey
How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.
Biografija
Rašymas
Autoriai
Knygos apie knygas
Mokslinė fantastika
Anne McCaffrey
How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.
Biografija
Rašymas
Autoriai
Knygos apie knygas
Mokslinė fantastika
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Nathan Price never narrates: inside the five-woman chorus that indicts a missionary's arrogance.
Knygos apie knygas
Žinynai
Literatūra
Literary
Academics
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Nathan Price never narrates: inside the five-woman chorus that indicts a missionary's arrogance.
Knygos apie knygas
Žinynai
Literatūra
Literary
Academics
American Exceptionalism
How a Puritan theology of chosenness became the alibi for a continent's conquest and distant wars.
Istorija
Jungtinės Valstijos
Politika
Literary
Religija
American Exceptionalism
How a Puritan theology of chosenness became the alibi for a continent's conquest and distant wars.
Istorija
Jungtinės Valstijos
Politika
Literary
Religija
The Inklings
An Oxford circle drank, argued, and read their stories aloud. Out came Narnia and Middle-earth.
Biografija
Istorija
Literatūra
Krikščioniška
Rašymas
The Inklings
An Oxford circle drank, argued, and read their stories aloud. Out came Narnia and Middle-earth.
Biografija
Istorija
Literatūra
Krikščioniška
Rašymas
Reading Genesis
Genesis is not history. It is a sustained argument for God's goodness, centuries in the making.
Religija
Teologija
Bible
Krikščionybė
Tikėjimas
Reading Genesis
Genesis is not history. It is a sustained argument for God's goodness, centuries in the making.
Religija
Teologija
Bible
Krikščionybė
Tikėjimas
Panenka
Nicknamed for a missed penalty, a terminally ill man tries to earn back his daughter's love.
Grožinė literatūra
Šiuolaikinė proza
Airija
Suaugusiems
Romanai
Panenka
Nicknamed for a missed penalty, a terminally ill man tries to earn back his daughter's love.
Grožinė literatūra
Šiuolaikinė proza
Airija
Suaugusiems
Romanai
