Classics / Criticism
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Flame Trees in May
$16.95 Read moreIn her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst, memory loss-from a perspective belonging singularly to a n
- Series: Mexican Literature
- Author: Marrufo, Karla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974648
- Language: English
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The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales
$15.95 Read moreOne of Turkey’s most celebrated writers explores themes of violence, otherness, and exile through a thrilling hybrid of poetry and prose that paints a vivid picture of Turkey’s conflict-torn lands.
In- Author: Edgü, Ferit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376768
- Language: English
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Well-Kept Ruins
$21.00 Read moreA genre-defying book from one of France’s most well-known philosopher-writers.
In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabr?k. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westp- Series: French List
- Author: Cixous, Hélène
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090596
- Language: English
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
$16.00 Read moreEach working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. I… [more below]
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140144188
- Language: English
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The Complete Saki
$25.00 Add to cartThe complete works of one of England’s greatest Edwardian writers
Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England’s ‘Golden Afternoon’ – the slow and peaceful years before the First World War.- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Saki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: May 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0141180781
- Language: English
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The Cross
$16.00 Read more“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate
A Penguin Classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to creat- Series: Kristin Lavransdatter (Penguin)
- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0141182350
- Language: English
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Daisy Miller and an International Episode
$11.95 Read more“An inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence”
This unique edition reunites two tales which James intended to be complementary –“Daisy Miller” and “An International Episode.” Young Daisy Mill- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0199639884
- Language: English
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Swann in Love
$11.95 Add to cartSwann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198744897
- Language: English
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Castle Rackrent
$13.95 Add to cartWith her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innov… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Edgeworth, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537550
- Language: English
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
$10.95 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe’s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. It is a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540470
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome & Summer
$14.00 Read moreA pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton
Thought Edith Wharton is best know- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757287
- Language: English
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Interior States: Essays
$18.00 Read moreWinner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction
“Meghan O’Gieblyn’s deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting c- Author: O’Gieblyn, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0525562702
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park: Introduction by Peter Conrad
$32.00 Read moreAt the center of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is Fanny Price, the classic “poor cousin” who has been brought to live with the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fann
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: June 02 1992
- ISBN10: 0679412697
- Language: English
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The Gift
$16.00 Add to cartConsidered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. – An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Ch… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 1991
- ISBN10: 0679727256
- 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
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The First Man
$0.00 Read moreThe unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0141185236
- Language: English
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Hombres No Son Islas, Los
$20.95 Read moreBased on John Donne’s famous meditation, Nuccio Ordine expands his “ideal library” by inviting us to read–and reread–more selected pages of universal literature. Convinced that a brilliant quote can… [more below]
- Author: Ordine, Nuccio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 8419036129
- Language: Spanish
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If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display
$22.95 Read moreEssays, stories and poems on the interior lives of bookstores.
Nick Thran’s volume of essays, stories and poems is a quietly powerful meditation on a life of reading, writing and bookselling. Thran, w
- Author: Thran, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0889714487
- Language: English
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Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life
$24.95 Read moreMillions of Suns is an open invitation for all writers to create something new. Each chapter features a pair of essays-in-dialogue between two working artists, Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner … [more below]
- Series: Writers on Writing
- Author: Dixon, M. C. Benner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0472056476
- Language: English
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Celtic Wisdom
$5.95 Read more”Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight . . .” — J. R. R. Tolkien. Woven into the legacy of the ancient Celts is a sense of the extraordinary, as well as love, laughter, spirituality,… [more below]
- Author: Peter Pauper Press, Inc
- Binding:
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1441317309
- Language: English
