Classics / Criticism
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The Fat Boy Chronicles
$9.95 Read moreIt’s bad enough being the new kid, but as a freshman, Jimmy finds school less enjoyable than many of his classmates. Standing 5’5″ and weighing 187 pounds, he’s subjected to a daily barrage of taunts … [more below]
- Author: Lang, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1585365432
- Language: English
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Tolkien: Treasures
$20.00 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. From J. R. R. Tolkien’s childhood in the Midlands and his experience of the First World… [more below]
- Author: McIlwaine, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1851244964
- Language: English
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Dawn Powell Novels, 1944-1962: My Home is Far Away, the Locusts Have No King, the Wicked Pavilion, the Golden Spur
$35.00 Read moreAmerican literature has known few writers capable of the comic lan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell’s work was out of prin… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #2
- Author: Powell, Dawn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 969
- Publish Date: September 10 2001
- ISBN10: 1931082022
- Language: English
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Forward from This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008
$17.00 Add to cartSince 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts’ writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper c… [more below]
- Author: Pitts Jr, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 349
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 1932841326
- Language: English
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The Best of Jules Verne 5 Volume Set
$39.99 Read moreWordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price.
Jules Verne was a French author best known for his adventure no
- Series: Best of
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1824
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1848702221
- Language: English
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Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-1958
$16.00 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize winner’s most influential and enduring lectures and speeches, newly translated by Quintin Hoare, in what is the first English language publication of this collection.
Albert Camus (19- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0525567232
- Language: English
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Recipe
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instruct- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bloom, Lynn Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1501367102
- Language: English
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Ti Amo
$18.00 Read moreA penetrating study of passion, suffering, and loss from one of Norway’s most tenacious writers: National Book Award Finalist and PEN translation prize winner Hanne rstavik
Celebrated throughout the- Author: Orstavik, Hanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 195386144X
- Language: English
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Sewer
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
What can underground pipes tell us about human eating habits and the spread or containment of- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hester, Jessica Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 150137950X
- Language: English
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
$12.99 Read more– Deluxe foiled and embossed cover, with gilded edges.
Little tre
– Gift editions of much-loved classics.
– Accessible and timeless unabridged text.
– Features a glossary of Victorian and Literary terms.- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Brontë, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1839649674
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
$20.00 Read moreThis definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama
Defined by waves of idealism- Author: MacArthur, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0241982308
- Language: English
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
$16.95 Add to cartEmpire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boehmer, Elleke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555591
- Language: English
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Dom Casmurro
$19.00 Read moreFirst published in 1900, Dom Casmurro, widely considered Machado de Assis’s greatest novel and a classic of Brazilian literature, is a brilliant retelling of the classic adultery tale–a sad and darkl
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: de Assis, Machado
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0374523037
- Language: English
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
$7.00 Read moreAuthor, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive c… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0486498824
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$18.00 Add to cartRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before hi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0679642323
- Language: English
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The Essential Tagore
$30.00 Read moreThe Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.
Marking the- Author: Tagore, Rabindranath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0674417046
- Language: English
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Stephen Hero
$17.95 Add to cartIt was originally rejected on grounds of indecency–so the story goes– by twenty publishers, whereupon Joyce threw the manuscript in the fire, but Mrs. Joyce rescued several unburnt portions.
Althoug… [more below]
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 17 1963
- ISBN10: 0811200744
- Language: English
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How German Is It
$17.95 Add to cartThe question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish’s novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the p… [more below]
- Author: Abish, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: November 17 1980
- ISBN10: 0811207765
- Language: English
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A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
$23.95 Add to cartA Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pa
- Author: Alshaer, Atef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863569900
- Language: English
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Hemingway on Fishing
$30.00 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
The first and only collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s writings on America’s great passion–fishing–introduced and edited by Nick Lyons with a foreword by Jack- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1476716412
- Language: English
