Classics / Criticism
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Walden and Other Writings
$5.95 Add to cartWith their call for “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity “, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in al… [more below]
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 055321246X
- Language: English
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The Luzhin Defense
$18.00 Read moreNabokov’s third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness.
As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen–an enigma to his parents and an object- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 1990
- ISBN10: 0679727221
- Language: English
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The Confessions of Nat Turner: Pulitzer Prize Winner
$19.00 Add to cartThe story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016)
In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained r- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Styron, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 1992
- ISBN10: 0679736638
- Language: English
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Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
$16.00 Read moreBeloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet.
Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan- Author: Coyote, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0771004303
- Language: English
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, Heretics, Blatchford Controversies Volume 1
$21.95 Add to cartContains three of Chesterton’s most influential works. In Heretics, Chesterton sets forth one of the most telling critiques of contemporary religious notions ever. The Blatchford Controversies are the… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: February 13 1986
- ISBN10: 0898700795
- Language: English
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100 Selected Poems: John Keats
$15.99 Read moreOne of the most notable romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats had a poetic career lasting less than a decade. And in this short time, he produced some of the greatest verses of a
- Series: 100 Selected Poems
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 9389178479
- Language: English
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Sin Novedad En El Frente
$27.95 Read moreConverted by millions of readers, generation after generation, into the great anti-war classic, All Quiet on the Front is a work of brutal denunciation where Remarque reflects part of his experiences … [more below]
- Author: Remarque, Erich Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 8419179949
- Language: Spanish
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A Tale of One January
$12.00 Read morePoland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march. Each is from a different background and a different country, but all have endured the horrors of imprisonment in Auschwitz.
- Author: Maltz, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0714550620
- Language: English
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers
$24.95 Read moreRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s–a decade unnervingly similar to our own
In the Company of Radical Wom
- Author: Hennessy, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1517914906
- Language: English
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Why Argument Matters
$20.00 Read moreHailed by the New York Times as a book that “examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence”
“An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Siegel, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271077
- Language: English
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
$30.00 Read moreIn this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on ev… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 038554748X
- Language: English
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The Last of the Mohicans
$6.95 Read moreJames Fenimore Cooper’s classic American story of life on the frontier during the French and Indian War.
The Last of the Mohicans, one of the world’s great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birt… [more below]- Series: Leatherstocking Tales
- Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0451417860
- Language: English
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
$25.00 Read more“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” –NPR
In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specu
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1940696615
- Language: English
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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843
$25.00 Read moreOne of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.
What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091150
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$19.00 Read moreThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces “In
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374521360
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$10.95 Add to cartSir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two ancient C… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Harrison, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540160
- Language: English
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The Thief and the Dogs
$16.00 Read moreNaguib Mahfouz’s haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in priso
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0385264623
- Language: English
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From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer
$18.95 Read moreLuis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire … [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1609809726
- Language: English
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Anthem
$4.99 Read moreEquality 7-2521 finds himself out of step with the collectivist society of the future, and discovers a means to freedom in Ayn Rand’s fable of the individual in conflict with society.
First published
- Series: Mint Editions
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1513264591
- Language: English
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100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
$19.00 Read more100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl.
This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child c- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535671
- Language: English
