Classics / Criticism
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What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
$75.00 Read moreOn the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land‘s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Lan- Author: Rasula, Jed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 069122577X
- Language: English
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
$22.00 Read moreA bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS … [more below]- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593134656
- Language: English
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Fasti
$11.95 Add to cart“Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.”
Ovid’s poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day-by-day a… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0192824112
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
$11.95 Add to cart“Miss Fancy Day; as neat a little figure of fun as ever I see, and just husband-high.”
One of the most popular of Hardy’s novels, Under the Greenwood Tree is a delightful and humorous depiction of lif- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0199697205
- Language: English
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
$11.95 Read moreElfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of hi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538492
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome
$10.00 Read moreEdith Wharton’s most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village.
This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0307949532
- Language: English
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A Room with a View
$8.00 Read moreIn common with much of his other writing, this work by the eminent English novelist and essayist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) displays an unusually perceptive view of British society in the early 20th ce… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 12 1995
- ISBN10: 0486284670
- Language: English
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Correspondence
$16.50 Add to cartPaul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg … [more below]
- Series: German List
- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0857426427
- Language: English
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Poems of Arab Andalusia
$15.95 Add to cartThese poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa’id, who wanted poems “whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose l
- Author: Franzen, Cola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0872862429
- Language: Spanish
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
$17.00 Read moreA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constan- Series: French List
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092742
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Crit- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222040
- Language: English
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$9.99 Read moreHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0008609810
- Language: English
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His Last Bow (a Sherlock Holmes Mystery)
$11.99 Read moreA gorgeous edition of the classic short collection featuring Sherlock Holmes, the perfect gift for readers and collectors.
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1804175625
- Language: English
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Riambel
$17.99 Add to cartFifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family.
Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that- Author: Hein, Priya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1911648497
- Language: English
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Wine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inex- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bernhard, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383612
- Language: English
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I Have No Regrets: Diaries, 1955-1963
$24.50 Read moreFrank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann’s collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany.
With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts o- Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature
- Author: Reimann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091800
- Language: English
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Dreaming in Color
$16.00 Read moreAn Own Voices story written by a Queer South African author, this coming-of-age/coming-of-queer story looks at navigating the confusion that is intimacy, sex, and identity.
In her debut novel, Dreamin- Author: Ximba, Uvile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717965
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish Edition)
$18.95 Add to cartLa historia de un sombr o y aterrador futuro
Guy Montag pertenece a una extra a brigada de bomberos. Su misi n, parad jicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libr- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1644730537
- Language: Spanish
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Gothic Short Stories
$9.99 Read moreSelected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literatu
- Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
- Author: Blair, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 1840224258
- Language: English
