Classics / Criticism
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Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, the Codex, Melancholy, Lucretiun, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias
$18.00 Read more“I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt’s idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous an
- Series: Department of Critical Thought
- Author: Robertson, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 31 2012
- ISBN10: 1897388896
- Language: English
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Optic Subwoof
$20.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction
Winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Dougla… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1950268675
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
$13.00 Add to cartMansfield Park is the complex and controversial novel starring Fanny Price, the heroine through which the world-renowned author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility views the social mores … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307386880
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
$10.00 Add to cartA haunting study of guilt and lost love
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he mana- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0141439785
- Language: English
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On the Natural History of Destruction
$21.00 Add to cartDuring World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died–a figure twice that of all America… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0375756574
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
$22.00 Read moreCompiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968263
- Language: English
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Una Habitación Propia
$7.95 Read moreLa contribución de una de las mejores narradoras del siglo XX al feminismo.
En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier
- Author: Virginia, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 607074392X
- Language: Spanish
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The Torrents of Spring
$6.00 Read more“The Torrents of Spring reveals Mr. Hemingway’s gift for high-spirited nonsense. Whatever its effect on literary foibles, it contributes to that thoughtful gayety that true wit should inspire.” —The … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851435
- Language: English
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Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
$37.95 Read moreSome comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious w… [more below]
- Author: Whitted, Qiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1978825013
- Language: English
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Se Está Haciendo Tarde (Final En La Laguna) / It’s Getting Late (End in the Lagoon)
$15.95 Read more«La buena literatura perturba, y perdura, como lo prueba esta enorme novela, so?ada y escrita entre las paredes de una celda, y que ahora est? por cumplir 50 a?os. –Fernanda Melchor
Escrita c- Author: AgustÃn, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 6073820763
- Language: Spanish
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Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word
$14.99 Add to cartGet on Stage and Perfect Your Performance
Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, “I could do this,” but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic–or worse, you climbed up on stage and stru
- Series: Poetry Speaks Experience
- Author: Smith, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1402218990
- Language: English
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
$42.00 Add to cartIn fin-de-si cle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a strikin… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Hustvedt, Asti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1096
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890951072
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$9.99 Read moreIntroduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it th
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260002
- Language: English
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Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception
$29.95 Read moreAn infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East.
In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal heat of the de- Author: Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1733628169
- Language: English
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Astra Magazine, Filth: Issue Two
$19.00 Read moreAstra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world.
Astra Magazine connects readers and writer… [more below]- Author: Spiegelman, Nadja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1662619014
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$11.95 Add to cartCousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553947
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$9.94 Add to cartOne of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0198702647
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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The Wanting Seed
$16.99 Read moreTristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalist… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback Fiction
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 393315088
- Language: English
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The Quarter: Stories
$14.95 Read moreMeet the people of Cairo’s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambl… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863563759
- Language: English
