Classics / Criticism
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Un B?rbaro En Par?s: Textos Sobre La Cultura Francesa / A Barbarian in Paris. Wr Itings about French Culture
$19.95 Read moreEL LIBRO QUE CELEBRA LA ENTRADA DEL PREMIO NOBEL MARIO VARGAS LLOSA EN LA ACADEMIA FRANCESA
«La literatura francesa fue la mejor y sigue siéndolo. La más osada, la más libre, […] la que se … [more below]- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073826214
- Language: Spanish
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Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the political to the aesthetic, Nobel Lectures collects the words of a quarter century of literature laureates, offering a glimpse into the inspirations, motivations, and passionately held belief… [more below]
- Author: The New Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1595584099
- Language: English
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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
$19.95 Read moreWhat Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison’s writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 160473017X
- Language: English
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Imaginary Lives
$16.95 Read more“The art of the biographer consists specifically in choice. He is not meant to worry about speaking truth; he must create human characteristics amidst the chaos.”–Marcel Schwob
Imaginary Lives remains
- Author: Schwob, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1939663342
- Language: English
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The Pickwick Papers: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)
$16.00 Read moreThe quintessentially English Don Quixote, here presented in a new edition based on the authoritative text and accompanied by notes and extra material to help the modern reader.
A rich and varied arra- Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1847498310
- Language: English
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A Passage to India
$22.00 Add to cartThe richest and most ambitious novel by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, this masterpiece counts the human cost of British-occupied India, a society afflicted by imperialism and r… [more below]
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593241568
- Language: English
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The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
$18.95 Read moreEssays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time.
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth H- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376237
- Language: English
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Hermione
$19.95 Read moreThis autobiographical novel by the Imagist poet H. D. (1886-1961) is a rare and hallucinatory treasure. In writing HERmione, H. D. returned to a year in her life that was “peculiarly blighted.” She wa… [more below]
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0811222098
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$7.99 Read moreHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
‘The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.’
When Basil Hallward paints the portrait of young, handsome Dor
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0008329478
- Language: English
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Ruth
$12.00 Add to cartRuth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her comfort… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140434305
- Language: English
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Further Up & Further in: Understanding Narnia
$19.95 Read moreFurther Up & Further In: Understanding Narnia by acclaimed Catholic author Joseph Pearce invites readers to return with the eyes of an adult to C. S. Lewis’s magical land entered through that most imp… [more below]
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1505130794
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
$10.00 Read more- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757325
- Language: English
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Tales of the Jazz Age: Stories
$11.00 Add to cartEvoking the Jazz-Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer’s most famous and celebrated stories. In “The
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0307476375
- Language: English
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To Go Into the Words
$34.95 Read moreTo Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of poets such as William Bronk, Helen A
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0472039415
- Language: English
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The Necklace and Other Short Stories
$6.00 Read moreThe French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed character studies and brief but moving dramas well suited to the genre.
The nine stories in this colle… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Maupassant, Guy De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0486270645
- Language: English
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Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
$16.00 Add to cartMann’s bestselling work of fiction now appears in a trade paperback format with a striking new jacket. Sales of the classic have totaled over 800,000 copies and average 42,000 copies a year.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: March 13 1989
- ISBN10: 0679722068
- Language: English
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Little Labors
$16.95 Add to cartSei Shonagon’s Pillow Book–a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen’s new book–contains a list of “Things That Make One Nervous.” And wouldn’t the blessed event top almost anyone’s list?
Little Labors is
- Author: Galchen, Rivka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0811225585
- Language: English
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The Samurai
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1613, four low-ranking Japanese samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico to bargain for trading rights with the West in exchange for a Catholic crusade through Japan. Their ard… [more below]
- Author: Endo, Shusaku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0811227901
- Language: English
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Georgette Heyer’s Regency World
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period
“Detailed, informative, impressively researched. A Heyer lover writing for Heyer fans.” —Times Lite
- Author: Kloester, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1402241364
- Language: English
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Satyajit Ray Miscellany: On Life, Cinema, People & Much More
$19.95 Read moreSatyajit Ray (1921-1992), one of the doyens of world cinema, gave a unique aesthetic expression to Indian cinema, music, art and literature. His writings, especially, autobiographical works, thoughts … [more below]
- Series: The Penguin Ray Library
- Author: Satyajit, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0143448994
- Language: English
