Classics / Criticism
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The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse
$25.00 Read moreA wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry–itself written entirely in verse
“Reading this book, you get to know poetry from the inside, without the alienating or distr- Author: Newlyn, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0300251912
- Language: English
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Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
$16.95 Add to cartJenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood … [more below]
- Author: Erpenbeck, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229327
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
$55.00 Add to cartThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had–in the words of
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0674057929
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Seasons Edition–Spring)
$34.99 Read moreA fine exclusive edition of one of literature’s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. No more than
- Series: Seasons Edition
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0785239758
- Language: English
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Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick
$36.00 Read moreAlthough Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing–or even a novel of the sea. Yet Puli… [more below]
- Author: King, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2021
- ISBN10: 022678987X
- Language: English
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El Extranjero / The Stranger
$19.95 Read more«Hoy, mam? ha muerto. O tal vez ayer, no s?.
Publicada originalmente en 1942, El extranjero es la primera novela de Albert Camus y una de sus obras m?s emblem?ticas. Ahora con nueva traducci?n- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 8439737939
- Language: Spanish
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Emma
$10.99 Read moreDive into a world of romance, village life, and even a little silliness in Jane Austen’s timeless novel.
Despite the fact that Jane Austen set out to write a story with a heroine whom she said that “- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0785840028
- Language: English
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Literature for a Changing Planet
$31.58 Read moreWhy we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe
Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddl- Series: Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture #1
- Author: Puchner, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691213755
- Language: English
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The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba
$17.00 Read moreTeeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel ﾁlvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in L
- Author: Álvarez, Carlos Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450909
- Language: English
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The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980
$25.00 Read moreTwo sisters, an artist and a poet, describe the contours of their lives among New York’s artistic avant-garde through an intimate collection of letters
This collection of the correspondence between art
- Author: Mayer, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 373
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0999505963
- Language: English
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Great Expectations
$12.99 Read moreComplete and unabridged, this elegantly designed hardcover edition of Great Expectations features vibrant endpapers, an introduction by Grace Moore, and a timeline of the life and times of Charles Dic
- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0785841709
- Language: English
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Notes to My Mother-In-Law
$13.95 Read more‘My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.’
It took a while before the family realised that Annie was increasingly (as she would put it) ‘Mutt and Jeff’. So Phylli
- Author: Law, Phyllida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0007338422
- Language: English
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Sunshine State: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay – Finalist for the Southern Book Prize
A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A N
- Author: Gerard, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 006243487X
- Language: English
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Swann’s Way
$30.00 Read moreIt all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Drop Caps
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124692
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$11.95 Add to cartUnder Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552371
- Language: English
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Science Fiction
$12.99 Add to cartFrankenstein, The Time Machine, Star Trek, Dune, 1984, Blade Runner–science fiction has been explained as a combination of romance, science, and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Seed, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0199557454
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
$14.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0199753636
- Language: English
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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
$19.00 Read moreTheodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass de
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0374515980
- Language: English
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The Dwarf
$18.00 Read more“I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his
- Author: Lagerkvist, Par
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 1958
- ISBN10: 0374521352
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
