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Book of Lies: (With Commentary by the Author)
$18.95 Read moreThis edition of master magician Aleister Crowley’s sly, witty, and instructive collection of paradoxes includes rarely published commentary by the author himself.
Written by the famed English occulti- Author: Crowley, Aleister
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0877285160
- Language: English
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Utopia
$11.99 Add to cart‘To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and hard thing.’
Thomas More’s Utopia presents an account of an idealised fictional society that has fascinated readers s- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 07 2025
- ISBN10: 019886020X
- Language: English
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The Giggle-A-Day Joke Book
$7.99 Add to cartA jokebook written by children in conjunction with Child of Achievement Awards with celebrity jokes from John Major, Gloria Hunniford, Jonny Searle, Matthew Kelly and others.
A new collection of jokes,
- Author: The Child of Achievement(tm) Awards
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0007115911
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie’s writing l… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Plain, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0198863748
- Language: English
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Beowulf
$22.00 Add to cartThe greatest surviving Old English poem rendered into modern prose
Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beow- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: May 30 1957
- ISBN10: 0140440704
- Language: English
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George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she wa- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Atkinson, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0198864329
- Language: English
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Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History
$29.95 Add to cartQueer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources – incl… [more below]
- Author: Goldhill, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1009528068
- Language: English
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Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation
$39.99 Add to cartTaking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-d?m, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholar… [more below]
- Author: Pezzini, Giuseppe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1009479679
- Language: English
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
$21.00 Add to cartWhy are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0812980018
- Language: English
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The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary
$29.95 Add to cartDuring the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen hi… [more below]
- Author: Loveman, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1009554115
- Language: English
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Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
$27.95 Add to cartDo Jane Austen novels truly celebrate–or undermine–romance and happy endings?
How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic,
- Author: Brodey, Inger Sigrun Bredkjær
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448203
- Language: English
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The Vampire: A New History
$18.00 Read moreAn authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene
Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groo- Author: Groom, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0300254830
- Language: English
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Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many
$40.00 Add to cart- Author: Hillman, Thomas P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 160635471X
- Language: English
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On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays
$24.95 Add to cartA new selection of Henry James’s essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay “The Art of Fiction” to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honor? de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and pa… [more below]
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379236
- Language: English
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Seamus Heaney’s Gifts
$39.95 Add to cart“The fact of the matter,” Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, “is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry.” Throughout his c
- Author: Hart, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182567
- Language: English
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Living with Jane Austen
$25.95 Add to cart- Author: Todd, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1009569317
- Language: English
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The Little Book of J.R.R. Tolkien: Wit and Wisdom from the Creator of Middle Earth
$8.95 Add to cartA renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created an entire alter
- Series: Little Books of Literature #11
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1800693745
- Language: English
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The Lion’s Country: C. S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real
$18.95 Add to cartUsing a philosophical lens to more deeply examine, appreciate, and understand C. S. Lewis’s writings
Drawing on C. S. Lewis’s essays, sermons, and fiction, The Lion’s Country offers a comprehensive ex
- Author: Starr, Charlie W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1606354531
- Language: English
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The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
$15.99 Add to cartMillions of readers have been captivated by C. S. Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so appealing? For more than half a century, scholars h… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1414339658
- Language: English
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Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O’Brian, Third Edition
$26.99 Read moreThis indispensable guide to navigating the well-loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated, with new chapters devoted to the final books in the series. Harbors and High Seas includes maps created ex
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0805066144
- Language: English
