Classics / Criticism
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In Search of Lost Time: Within a Budding Grove V. 2 (Revised)
$22.00 Read moreFirst published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhoo… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375752196
- Language: English
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The House of the Seven Gables
$11.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne’s defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cur… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756876
- Language: English
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Villette
$14.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Jane Eyre, a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over–with an introduction by Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry
“Villette Villette Have y- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 037575850X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
$27.43 Add to cartIrreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook–an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race–contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales … [more below]
- Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #2
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0520242459
- Language: English
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Intruder in the Dust
$15.95 Add to cartAt once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching potrait of racila injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in the Dust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 1991
- ISBN10: 0679736514
- Language: English
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Jo’s Boys
$5.95 Read moreBest known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, su… [more below]
- Series: Little Women
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0553214497
- Language: English
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A Passage to India: Introduction by P. N. Furbank
$28.00 Read moreBritain’s three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, a
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679405496
- Language: English
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Canterbury Tales: Introduction by Derek Pearsall
$28.00 Read moreThe precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless ve
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679409890
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
$12.95 Add to cartFor daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for -offenses against morality and religion.- What shocks … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0679736360
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights
$6.99 Add to cartA classic novel set on the solemn moors of northern England, Wuthering Heights is the unforgettable story of Heathcliff and Catherine, whose doomed love torments them in a tempest of madness, vengeanc… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Bronte, Emily
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743487648
- Language: English
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The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
$15.95 Read moreThe social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and this book is perhaps his most poignant and concentrated analysis of the artist’s dilemma.
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 1962
- ISBN10: 0811201155
- Language: English
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Helen in Egypt: Poetry
$22.95 Read moreA fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem…. [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 1974
- ISBN10: 0811205444
- Language: English
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ABC of Reading
$15.95 Read moreThis important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly s… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1186
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218937
- Language: English
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Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
$19.95 Read more“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio C… [more below]
- Author: Cortázar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0811225348
- Language: English
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The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work
$18.00 Read moreFew have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram n Jim nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In th
- Author: Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0983322007
- Language: English
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They Got to You Too
$17.00 Read moreWinner of the Sharjah Int’l Book Fair Best International Fiction Award 2022
Hans van Rooyen is a former police general raised by two women who survived the 1899 South African War. He finds himself bei- Author: Ntshingila, Futhi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717418
- Language: English
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The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City
$25.27 Read more- Author: Van Parys, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 069124796X
- Language: English
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Patricia Highsmith’s Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950
$22.00 Read moreBefore Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and b… [more below]
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092947
- Language: English
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Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels
$17.99 Read moreTake a dashing hero with a heart of gold and a mullet of awesome. Add a heroine with a bustle and the will to kick major butt. Then include enough contrivances to keep them fighting while getting them
- Author: Wendell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1402254490
- Language: English
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The Moonstone
$17.99 Read moreDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high q
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1509850902
- Language: English
