Classics / Criticism
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Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing
$36.95 Read moreFire and Ink is a powerful and impassioned anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays that confront some of the most pressing social issues of our day. Designed to inspire and inform, this co… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Frances Payne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0816527938
- Language: English
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
$27.95 Add to cartAn indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded
Samuel R. Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 081956883X
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
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Granta 164: Last Notes
$19.99 Read moreGranta’s summer issue will be themed around sound, music, silence and war. From established voices to debut novelists, Britain’s most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new writing from
- Author: Rausing, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1909889571
- Language: English
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The Looking Glass and Other Stories: New Translation of This Unique Edition of Thirty-Four Other Short Stories by Chekhov, Some of Them Never Translat
$12.00 Read moreIt is New Year’s Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as th
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1847499015
- Language: English
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
$16.95 Read moreWhat to read next is every book lover’s greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterate… [more below]
- Author: Pearl, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 1570613818
- Language: English
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
$24.00 Read moreWith new illustrations and a brilliant original introduction by New Yorker writer and author of My Life in Middlemarch Rebecca Mead, the Restless Classics edition of Middlemarch presents George Eliot’
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1632063069
- Language: English
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
$27.00 Read moreNamed a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Revi
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450623
- Language: English
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Yesterday
$14.95 Add to cartIn the city of San Agust? de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing ro… [more below]
- Author: Emar, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231577
- Language: English
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The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection
$29.95 Read moreAn authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary.
Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama a- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271823
- Language: English
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Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress
$15.95 Add to cartCecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney’s unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Burney, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955238X
- Language: English
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$12.00 Read moreSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN‘S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN‘S JACK O’CONNELL
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence’s German- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758003
- Language: English
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The Antiquary
$15.95 Add to cartThe Antiquary, Scott’s personal favorite among his novels, is characteristically wry and urbane. A mysterious young man calling himself ‘Lovel’ travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seaside t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555710
- Language: English
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Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, the Bear
$16.95 Read more“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” –William Faulkner
These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0307946754
- Language: English
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The Sea-Wolf
$9.00 Read moreHailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental confl
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 1999
- ISBN10: 0486411087
- Language: English
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
$13.00 Add to cartEdited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rog t,” and “The Purloined Letter”
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented th… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 23 2006
- ISBN10: 0679643427
- Language: English
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Nicholas Nickleby: Introduction by John Carey
$36.00 Read moreCharles Dickens had an understanding of mid-Victorian society second to none, and genius and energy massive enough to make the absurdities and terrors of that society come alive on the page. Nicholas
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 914
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0679423079
- Language: English
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The Parasite: Volume 1
$19.95 Read moreInfluential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pe
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #1
- Author: Serres, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0816648816
- Language: English
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Apples on a Windowsill
$20.95 Read moreApples on a Windowsill is a series of meditations on still life, photography, beauty, and marriage. Full of personal reflections, charming anecdotes, and the history behind the art of still lifes, thi
- Author: Lemay, Shawna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1990293662
- Language: English
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Novela de Ajedrez
$11.95 Read moreWith no capacity for any other intellectual activity, Mirko Czentovicz revealed himself as a world champion chess genius. But, on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires, he is presented with an eni… [more below]
- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 8495359456
- Language: Spanish
