Classics / Criticism
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Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary
$22.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of its kind, a brand new illustrated alphabetical dictionary of all the words and meanings students of Shakespeare need to know. Every word h… [more below]
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0192737503
- Language: English
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The Classic Fairy Tales
$23.99 Add to cartThis volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Includin… [more below]
- Author: Opie, Iona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 13 1980
- ISBN10: 0195202198
- Language: English
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Phaedrus
$10.95 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554021
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
$11.00 Read moreIntroduction by A. S. Byatt
Illustrations by John Tenniel
Includes commissioned endnotes
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Ali- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375761381
- Language: English
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
$14.99 Add to cartExamining the psyche–and psychoses–of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power an
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356973
- Language: English
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Great Speeches
$5.00 Add to cartFor someone who claimed he had been educated by littles — a little now and a little then — Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable el… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 20 1991
- ISBN10: 0486268721
- Language: English
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Quicksand
$9.95 Read moreHelga’s mother is white, and her father is black — and absent. Ostracized throughout her lonely childhood for her dark skin, Helga spends her adult life seeking acceptance. Everywhere she goes — the… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Larsen, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451402
- Language: English
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Against Everything: Essays
$19.00 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating- Author: Greif, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1101971746
- Language: English
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A Silence Shared
$16.95 Read more“I was struck straightaway by the singular force of her taut, meditative, sorrowful writing.” — Jhumpa Lahiri
A diamond-sharp, Italian classic about the mysterious relationships between two partisan- Author: Romano, Lalla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1782278206
- Language: English
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Middlemarch
$17.99 Read moreDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high q
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1509857443
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
$24.95 Read moreThe first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick’s illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Elizabeth Hardwick- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1681371545
- Language: English
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Emma
$9.99 Add to cartWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ‘heroine whom no one but myself will much like’, but Emma is irresistible. ‘H
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260282
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
$12.99 Add to cartSelected for The Great American Read, the PBS series celebrating America’s 100 most-loved books.
It’s a warm summer’s afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventu- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621579
- Language: English
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
$40.00 Read moreLetters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection
- Author: Usher, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1838853170
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners
$10.95 Add to cartOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert’s… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535655
- Language: English
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Sister Carrie
$13.95 Add to cartWhen a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dreiser, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539081
- Language: English
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All Passion Spent
$16.00 Read moreIrreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late.
After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane–a former prime- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Sackville-West, Vita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 052543397X
- Language: English
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Folktales from India
$24.00 Add to cartAn enchanting collection of 110 tales, translated from twenty-two different languages, that are by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegorical, mysterious and romantic. Gods disguised as begga… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Ramanujan, A. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0679748326
- Language: English
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Noah’s Arkive
$29.95 Read moreA timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorf- Author: Cohen, Jeffrey J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1517904242
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
$7.99 Read moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students an… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1416500278
- Language: English
