Classics / Criticism
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The Complete Brontë Collection
$39.99 Read moreThe perfect gift for any Bront Sisters lover for only 19.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Bront Sisters’ best and much-loved works. Beautifu… [more below]
- Series: Wordsworth Box Sets
- Author: Bront?, Anne
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 2608
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1840227907
- Language: English
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A Preface to Paradise Lost
$26.00 Add to cartC. S. Lewis’s illuminating reflections on Milton’s Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis’s own.
In Preface to Paradise Lost, the Christian apo
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0063222132
- Language: English
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Burmese Days
$12.00 Read moreIn the Burmese provincial town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat co
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1847498809
- Language: English
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Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
$23.00 Read moreA collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis
In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has be- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858828
- Language: English
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Where the Muses Still Haunt: The Second Reading
$26.00 Read more“Re-reading is one of life’s joys,” Anne Drury Hall reminds us. Not simply from the sweetness of remembering or because of the way a book can be like an old friend, but because returning to a great bo… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Anne Drury
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1587315394
- Language: English
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The Beautiful and Damned
$12.99 Read moreTwenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch appears to have it all: a Harvard education, an apartment in New York City, memberships at all of the best clubs, and a generous trust fund to draw from. Sure, his g… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172272
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$11.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the c- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753206
- Language: English
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Miss Lonelyhearts
$12.95 Add to cartPraised by great writers from Flannery O’Conner to Jonathan Lethem, Miss Lonelyhearts is an American classic. A newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column in the depths of the Great Depress… [more below]
- Author: West, Nathanael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0811220931
- Language: English
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A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist
$24.95 Read moreCompleting Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells
- Author: Wells, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1350365505
- Language: English
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January
$18.00 Read more“Hair-raisingly good . . . the plot explodes.” – Lily Meyer, The New York Review of Books
“Elegant and forceful – I couldn’t put it down.” – Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X ** ONE of THE NEW- Author: Gallardo, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861644
- Language: English
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreGraywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles Baxter
As much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiri- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1555975089
- Language: English
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Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreBold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read–in any genre–from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy’s career will surely have noticed- Author: Percy, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1555977596
- Language: English
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Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeAcclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its
- Author: Biss, Eula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1555978231
- Language: English
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Aesop’s Fables
$14.99 Add to cartThis timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop’s fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike.
Aesop’s Fables is part of the Macmill- Author: Aesop
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1509844368
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962 (Loa #226): Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories
$35.00 Read moreBefore winning international fame with Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his bri… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1598531506
- Language: English
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Selected Letters of Abigail and John Adams
$5.00 Read more“America’s first power couple,” John and Abigail Adams enjoyed a relationship of mutual respect and affection. Their exchange of more than 1,000 letters — from their 1762 courtship to the end of John… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Adams, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486841707
- Language: English
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Is Mother Dead
$26.95 Read moreLonglisted for the International Booker Prize
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Hjorth, Vigdis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1839764317
- Language: English
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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
$18.00 Read moreThe New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism
- Author: Scott, A. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109979
- Language: English
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The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
$26.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O’Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry.
This authoritative and acc- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0385491182
- Language: English
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The Book of Embraces
$16.95 Add to cartEduardo Galeano’s is considered a passionate literary voice. In The Book of Embraces, he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, iron… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308553
- Language: English
