Books & Reading
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Crit- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222040
- Language: English
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Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
$20.00 Read moreTerry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated fro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270445
- Language: English
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El Fuego de la Imaginación: Libros, Escenarios, Pantallas Y Museos. Obra Periodí Stica 1 / The Fire of Imagination. Journalistic Works 1
$24.95 Read moreLA CULTURA, PROTAGONISTA DEL PRIMER VOLUMEN DE LA OBRA PERIODÍSTICA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
«No hay cultura genuina sin pluralidad de ideas y sin crítica
Durante más- Series: Obra Periodística
- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 6073823584
- Language: Spanish
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
$19.95 Read more“For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing on writing from the course of her career, this bo… [more below]
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765097
- Language: English
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On Reading
$29.95 Add to cartAndr Kert sz (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium’s history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works…. [more below]
- Author: Kertész, André
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393066568
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Add to cartThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction – From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: “This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Ho… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345807170
- Language: English
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Annotation
$15.95 Read moreAn introduction to annotation as a genre–a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication–and its significance in scholarship and everyday life.
Annotation–the addition of a note to a t- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kalir, Remi H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0262539926
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
$28.99 Add to cartThe classic guide, now available in a hardcover edition–a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make yo
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0062696858
- Language: English
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On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
$40.00 Read moreA sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book histor- Author: Holsinger, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260210
- Language: English
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Reading the Stars: Astrology for Book Lovers
$19.99 Read moreAn original and entertaining mash-up of literature and astrology for book lovers and star watchers alike.
Astrology continues to be a popular trend–people are looking to the stars, the moon, and the- Author: Book Riot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 141975887X
- Language: English
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The Library at Night
$19.95 Read moreA celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, i- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0300151306
- Language: English
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Twelve Great Books: Going Deeper Into Classic Literature
$17.95 Read moreTap into the wealth and health of Christian civilization with the help of literary critic Joseph Pearce.
After learning the true meaning of the word “civilization”–a society rooted in truth–the reade
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1621645738
- Language: English
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A Preface to Paradise Lost
$26.00 Add to cartC. S. Lewis’s illuminating reflections on Milton’s Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis’s own.
In Preface to Paradise Lost, the Christian apo
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0063222132
- Language: English
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Where the Muses Still Haunt: The Second Reading
$26.00 Read more“Re-reading is one of life’s joys,” Anne Drury Hall reminds us. Not simply from the sweetness of remembering or because of the way a book can be like an old friend, but because returning to a great bo… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Anne Drury
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1587315394
- Language: English
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Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreBold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read–in any genre–from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy’s career will surely have noticed- Author: Percy, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1555977596
- Language: English
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments “A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live.” —The Washington Post Book World
In this wise and irresistibl- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 1400032601
- Language: English
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Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
$16.99 Read moreWhen you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle’s delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?
If … [more below]
- Author: Clarkson, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1496425804
- Language: English
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Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children’s Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls
$24.99 Add to cart“Ms. Perkins personal anec-dotes are a delight.” –Wall Street Journal
The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spar
- Author: Perkins, Mitali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1506469108
- Language: English
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
$32.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0374607168
- Language: English
