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The Collected Poems of Sonia Sanchez
The Collected Poems of Sonia Sanchez is a 424-page compilation published by Beacon Press in 2021, gathering her poetry from 1969 through 2019, from haiku to book-length narratives.
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan is a 2005 University of California Press volume gathering all the poetry of the New York School poet, edited by Alice Notley.
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens is a 1954 Knopf volume gathering the poetry of American modernist Wallace Stevens, which won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams is a two-volume New Directions edition covering 1909 to 1962, published in 1986 and 1988, restoring poems to their original sequences.
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998 is a 2003 poetry collection gathering the complete poems of Nikki Giovanni's first seven volumes from 1968 to 1983.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer is the short fiction of the Yiddish Nobel laureate, gathered in a 1982 one-volume edition and a 2004 three-volume Library of America set.
The Collected Verse of A. B. Paterson
The Collected Verse of A. B. Paterson is a 1921 book by Angus and Robertson collecting the bush poetry of Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson from his three earlier collections.
The Collected Verse of Henry Lawson
The Collected Verse of Henry Lawson is a three-volume scholarly edition of the Australian writer's poetry, edited by Colin Roderick and published by Angus and Robertson from 1967 to 1969.
The Collector
The Collector is John Fowles's 1963 debut novel (Jonathan Cape; Little, Brown in the US), in which butterfly collector Frederick Clegg kidnaps art student Miranda Grey; told in dual first-person narration and adapted by William Wyler in 1965.
The Collector of Treasures
The Collector of Treasures is a 1977 short-story collection by Bessie Head, the only one published in her lifetime, whose thirteen Botswana village tales examine the position of women.
The Colonizer and the Colonized
The Colonizer and the Colonized is a 1957 book-length essay by the French-Tunisian writer and sociologist Albert Memmi, a central theoretical statement of the anticolonial movement.
The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse (薄墨のハテ)
The Color of the End: Mission in the Apocalypse (ウスズミの果て, Usuzumi no Hate) is Haruo Iwamune's ongoing post-apocalyptic seinen manga, serialized in Harta since 2022, following survivor Saya's mission to cleanse a depopulated Earth; English release by Yen Press, 2025.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple is Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel about Celie, a Black woman in rural Georgia, told through letters to God and her sister Nettie; it won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award and spawned film and stage adaptations.
The Color Purple (musical)
The Color Purple is a Broadway musical with book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, adapted from Alice Walker's novel and Spielberg's 1985 film; it ran 910 performances from 2005 to 2008, won a 2016 Tony for its revival, and spawned a 2023 film.
The Colorado Kid
The Colorado Kid (2005) is a Stephen King mystery novella written for Hard Case Crime, set on Moose-Lookit Island, Maine, about an unidentified dead man whose case is never solved; it loosely inspired the TV series Haven.
The Colossus of Maroussi
The Colossus of Maroussi is a 1941 travelogue by American writer Henry Miller, based on his 1939 journey through Greece and centered on the Greek writer George Katsimbalis.
The Colour of Magic
The Colour of Magic (1983) is Terry Pratchett's first Discworld novel and first Wizards-series book, a comic fantasy following the inept wizard Rincewind guarding tourist Twoflower; it continues directly into The Light Fantastic.
The Colour Out of Space
The Colour Out of Space is H. P. Lovecraft's March 1927 science fiction horror short story, first published in Amazing Stories, about a meteorite whose indescribable color poisons an Arkham farm; his own favorite.
The Commitments (novel)
The Commitments, Roddy Doyle's 1987 debut novel (self-published, King Farouk), follows Jimmy Rabbitte managing a working-class Dublin soul band in Barrytown; first of the Barrytown Trilogy and basis of the 1991 Alan Parker film.
The Common Reader
The Common Reader is a two-volume collection of critical essays by Virginia Woolf, published by the Hogarth Press in 1925 and 1932, treating writers from Chaucer to Conrad for the ordinary reader.
The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler is a book by the English writer Izaak Walton, first published in London in 1653, which teaches angling through dialogue and verse.
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House, 1994) gathers the poems of her five poetry collections, including On the Pulse of Morning, Still I Rise, and Phenomenal Woman, in one collector's hardcover.
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore is a poetry collection assembled by the poet herself, first published in New York in 1967 and reissued with her final revisions in 1981.
The Conditions of the Renaissance
The Conditions of the Renaissance (شروط النهضة) is a 1949 book by Algerian thinker Malek Bennabi on how a colonized society can achieve civilizational renewal.
The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds (Manṭiq al-Ṭayr, منطق الطیر), also called Speech of the Birds, is a 12th-century Persian Sufi allegorical masnavi of about 4,500 couplets by Attar of Nishapur in which birds cross seven valleys to reach the Simorgh and find thirty birds, si morgh, reflected there.
The Confession of a Child of the Century
The Confession of a Child of the Century (La Confession d'un enfant du siècle) is an autobiographical 1836 novel by the French writer Alfred de Musset.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 novel by William Styron, a fictional first-person account of Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion that won the Pulitzer Prize.
The Conformist (novel)
Il conformista (The Conformist), Alberto Moravia's 1951 novel, follows Marcello Clerici, a repressed homosexual who joins the Fascist secret police and joins a plot to assassinate his exiled former professor in Paris; adapted by Bertolucci in 1970.
The Confusions of Young Törless
The Confusions of Young Törless (Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß) is a 1906 debut novel by the Austrian writer Robert Musil, set in a military boarding school.
The Conservationist
The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer about a wealthy white industrialist whose farm outside Johannesburg cannot withstand Black inhabitants' land claims; it won the Booker Prize.