Classics / Criticism
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Great Expectations
$15.99 Read moreOne of Charles Dickens’s most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and is unexpectedly given the opportuni
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1509825363
- Language: English
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The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900
$24.00 Read moreHistorian Jeremy Black is comprehensive, as ever, but in his treatment of the British Gothic novel his greatest service is the preservation of the detail–namely, the human impetus behind art that is … [more below]
- Series: The Weight of Words
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1587310090
- Language: English
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
$17.99 Read more‘A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal’ Daily Mail
When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours i- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Brontë, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1784870757
- Language: English
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Don Quixote
$9.99 Add to cartTranslated by P. A. Motteux
With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork
Cervantes’ tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles w
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: De Cervantes, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260363
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson
$19.00 Add to cartAn essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde about the liberating and unique combin… [more below]
- Author: Noel-Tod, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0141984562
- Language: English
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Thank You for Not Reading
$15.95 Add to cartThank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promo… [more below]
- Author: Ugresic, Dubravka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1948830450
- Language: English
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Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021
$23.95 Read more2022 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting e- Author: Indiana, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211629
- Language: English
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The Woman in White
$7.99 Read moreHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual natur
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0008542201
- Language: English
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Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy
$16.95 Read moreRepublished by Bamboo Leaf Press, this new modern edition includes a foreword by Richard Rosen, the renowned yoga teacher and writer. The printing is of the highest quality and has a stitch-binding th
- Author: Ramacharaka, Yogi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0997414839
- Language: English
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Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
$17.99 Add to cart“An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate–and most importantly–a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability.” —Doug
- Author: Cumming, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0062435795
- Language: English
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Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife
$17.00 Add to cart“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate
Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create
A Penguin Classic- Series: Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy
- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141181281
- Language: English
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Washington Square
$9.00 Add to cartHenry James’s classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics.
When timid and plain Catherin- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Horne, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0141441364
- Language: English
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The Bright Side of Life
$13.95 Add to cartOrphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198753616
- Language: English
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James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study
$15.95 Add to cart- Author: Gilbert, Stuart
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 12 1955
- ISBN10: 0394700139
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness: And Selections from the Congo Diary
$12.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 037575377X
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$7.00 Add to cartJane Austen’s last completed novel, a brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage to follow our hearts
Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried–by all accounts a spinster- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757295
- Language: English
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Shakespeare After All
$29.00 Add to cartA brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.
Draw- Author: Garber, Marjorie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: September 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0385722141
- Language: English
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The Analects of Confucius
$15.95 Read moreIn this terse, brilliant translation, Simon Leys restores the human dimension to Confucius. He emerges a full-blooded character with a passion for politics and a devotion to the ideals of a civilizati… [more below]
- Author: Confucius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0393316998
- Language: English
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
$16.00 Add to cartFrom “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)–nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss–and formed the basis for the … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 14 1993
- ISBN10: 0679748644
- Language: English
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Twenty Square Feet of Skin
$22.95 Read more“A pensive inquiry, often breathtakingly beautiful and relatable, into how and where and with whom we fit.” –Kirkus
The essays in Twenty Square Feet of Skin tell their stories through the body-encase- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Baxter, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258689
- Language: English
