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The Enchanted April
$11.95 Read more‘To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small medieval castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let For the month of April, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.’
Four very different wome- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198859090
- Language: English
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Well-Kept Ruins
$21.00 Read moreA genre-defying book from one of France’s most well-known philosopher-writers.
In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabr?k. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westp- Series: French List
- Author: Cixous, Hélène
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090596
- Language: English
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
$16.00 Read moreA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of- Author: Row, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978320
- Language: English
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The Thief and the Dogs
$16.00 Read moreNaguib Mahfouz’s haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in priso
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0385264623
- Language: English
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Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on Tolkien
$29.95 Add to cartA major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship
With the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien’s
- Author: Flieger, Verlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1606350943
- Language: English
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Interventions 2020
$110.75 Add to cartThe death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the p
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1509549951
- Language: English
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The Mir? Worm and the Mysteries of Writing
$20.00 Add to cartOne of America’s most honored and respected essayists, Sven Birkerts, returns with a riveting new collection. In The Mir? Worm and the Mysteries of Writing, Birkerts reflects on fundamental questions
- Author: Birkerts, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990405004
- Language: English
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The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante
$21.95 Add to cartOne of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our time has seen…his interpretation of the role of Beatrice is a subtle and individual one. Charles Williams was one of the finest-no
- Author: Williams, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0976402548
- Language: English
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
$18.00 Add to cartA year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision-and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories … [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022605487X
- Language: English
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This Side of Paradise
$11.95 Add to cart‘The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.’
Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from in- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0198848110
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction
$24.95 Add to cartThe Writers Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction offers a refreshing approach to the craft of fiction writing. It takes a single page from forty contemporary novels and short stories, identifies techni… [more below]
- Author: Noll, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0998518417
- Language: English
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Robota
$24.95 Read moreA captivating tale of action, romance, and betrayal, Robota features breathtaking illustrations that add a cinematic scope to every page. Orson Scott Card, author of the award-winning bestseller Ender… [more below]
- Author: Chiang, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 16 2016
- ISBN10: 048680495X
- Language: English
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The Book of Lists: Horror: An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson
$15.99 Add to cartThe phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating infobits about simply everything Now the latest edition
- Author: Wallace, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0061537268
- Language: English
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Zona de Obras
$26.95 Read moreWhy, for what and how does a journalist write? What is his vocation made of and what gives it meaning in these times? Works Zone brings together columns, conferences and essays that the Argentinean Le… [more below]
- Author: Guerriero, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 8433926276
- Language: Spanish
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Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the inn… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Keymer, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0198725957
- Language: English
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Speaking of Wagner: Talking to Audiences about the Ring of the Nibelung
$29.95 Add to cartSpeaking of Wagner compiles in a new and highly accessible format celebrated author, lecturer, and Metropolitan Opera commentator William Berger’s collection of talks and presentations about Richard W
- Author: Berger, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1680530976
- Language: English
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Tender Points
$16.95 Add to cartTender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores sexual violence, chronic pain, and patriarchy through lived… [more below]
- Author: Berkowitz, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1643620282
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$39.95 Add to cartThe Complete Poems contains every poem that John Crowe Ransom wrote, including his three books–Poems About God, Chills and Fever, and Two Gentlemen in Bonds–as well as the additional poems that app
- Author: Ransom, John Crowe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0807171743
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJames Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short stories… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Maccabe, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0192894471
- Language: English
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Around the World in 80 Books
$30.00 Add to cartA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them
*Featured in the Chicago Tri… [more below]- Author: Damrosch, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593299884
- Language: English
