Books & Reading
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Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us?
$19.95 Add to cart“Witty and heartfelt essays, shaken and stirred.”
—Kirkus Reviews“Mason’s sharp interpretations make a persuasive case that great literature’s complexity and ambiguity can, at its best, produce empath
- Author: Mason, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881729
- Language: English
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The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators
$31.95 Add to cartUpon publication, Anita Silvey’s comprehensive survey of contemporary children’s literature, Children’s Books and Their Creators, garnered unanimous praise from librarians, educators, and specialists
- Author: Silvey, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0618190821
- Language: English
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The House of Being
$18.00 Add to cartAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey
“Searching and intimate, this impres- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0300265921
- Language: English
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Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South
$30.99 Add to cartFlannery O’Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the definitive edition of American authors. Fifty years a… [more below]
- Author: Wood, Ralph C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0802829996
- Language: English
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For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More
$19.99 Read moreWhich famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What was Truman Capote … [more below]
- Author: Tarrant, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1510741577
- Language: English
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The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature
$25.99 Add to cartA revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism
The World Broke in- Author: Goldstein, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182506
- Language: English
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Studies in Classic American Literature (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$9.95 Add to cartIn Studies in American Literature, D. H. Lawrence’s brilliance as both a writer and a critic shimmers with energy and originality. His thought-provoking look at canonized American literature is a bra… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1959891855
- Language: English
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A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile’s Compendium
$16.99 Add to cartThis is a book of book lists. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden’s bookshelf to the books most frequently left in hotels, from pri… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0712352252
- Language: English
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The Life of Images: Selected Prose
$18.99 Add to cart“Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, Simic] retains an outsider’s perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary–all excellent qualities for an essayist. There
- Author: Simic, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062364731
- Language: English
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Great Books
$29.99 Add to cartTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the litera… [more below]
- Author: Denby, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 25 1997
- ISBN10: 0684835339
- Language: English
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Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
$20.99 Add to cartA funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television’s favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY’s hit series Paw
- Author: Romney, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062412329
- 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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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
$21.00 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 1990
- ISBN10: 0679730044
- Language: English
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
$19.99 Add to cartIs a book the same book–or a reader the same reader–the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
The editor of Reread- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530548
- Language: English
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
$15.99 Add to cart“Nina Sankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature–to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves.” –Thrity Umrigar, author of The Sp
- Author: Sankovitch, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0061999857
- Language: English
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The Book
$19.95 Add to cartThe book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.
What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to ent
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Borsuk, Amaranth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535416
- Language: English
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Lectures on Russian Literature
$18.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on… [more below]
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027763
- Language: English
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Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
$20.00 Read moreNewly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century–including many texts never previously in print–by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally b… [more below]
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593133196
- Language: English
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Ear Training: Literary Essays
$29.95 Add to cart“These pieces reflect Pritchard’s abiding joy in literature, especially poetry … Included here are insightful appreciations of Anthony Trollope, Anthony Powell, and a sublime reading of Philip Larki… [more below]
- Author: Pritchard, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881826
- Language: English
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Feel Free: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Sinc- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 014311025X
- Language: English
