Classics / Criticism
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The Tale of Genji
$8.00 Add to cartCompleted in the early 11th century, The Tale of Genji is considered the supreme masterpiece of Japanese prose literature, and one of the world’s earliest novels. A work of great length, it comprises … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Murasaki, Lady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0486414159
- Language: English
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Shadows We Carry
$17.95 Read moreIn this sequel to the award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, the Lubinski twins struggle with their roles as women and coming to terms with their family’s Holocaust legacy at the same ti… [more below]
- Author: Ain, Meryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1684632005
- Language: English
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A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape
$27.95 Add to cart“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously e
- Author: Eubanks, W. Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1604699582
- Language: English
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The Odyssey & the Iliad Complete
$30.00 Add to cartA gorgeous collector’s edition of The Greatest Epics in Western Literature, now in the Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy and Epic Tales series.
Two great epics of Western Culture are combined here into one v- Series: Gothic Fantasy
- Author: Makrinos, Antony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1839649666
- Language: English
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Desire and Fate
$24.00 Add to cartAt a time when political writing and cultural criticism have come to be dominated by an insipid and unthinking moralism, David Rieff’s essays offer a bracing antidote. The writings collected in Desire… [more below]
- Author: Rieff, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1912475383
- Language: English
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All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body
$19.95 Add to cartWith women’s anger, empowerment, and the critical importance of intersectional feminism taking center stage in much of the dialogue happening in feminist spaces right now, an anthology like this has n
- Author: Burlison, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 162963705X
- Language: English
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The Cheapest Nights
$18.00 Read moreFrom the “genius of the short story,” a collection illuminating the lives of the Egyptian lower class by one of the most important and innovative voices of Egyptian literature
A Penguin Classic One of- Author: Idris, Yusuf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0143133985
- Language: English
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Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children’s Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls
$24.99 Add to cart“Ms. Perkins personal anec-dotes are a delight.” –Wall Street Journal
The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spar
- Author: Perkins, Mitali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1506469108
- Language: English
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Great Short Stories by American Women
$8.00 Read moreEmbracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stor… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Ward, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0486287769
- Language: English
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This Side of Paradise
$9.99 Read moreAmory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, is convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future. The reader follows Amory as he falls in love with Isabelle Borg?, a wealthy young debutante; a cruel an
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172329
- Language: English
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Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
$27.95 Read moreExamines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps
Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and e- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 080701592X
- Language: English
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Exemplary Stories
$12.95 Add to cartMore popular in their day than Don Quxixote, Cervantes’s Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, the Exemplary Stories defy the conventi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Decervantes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555001
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton
$18.95 Add to cartTu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton’s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in Americ… [more below]
- Author: Fu, Tu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 081122838X
- Language: English
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Second Star: And Other Reasons for Lingering
$18.00 Read moreA #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life’s smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windows
A still life- Author: Delerm, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861547
- Language: English
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La Batarde
$18.95 Add to cartAn obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La B?arde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own i
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Leduc, Violette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974575
- Language: English
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The Jungle Books
$11.00 Add to cartThe story of the man-cub Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, guided by his mentors Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and the ancient python Kaa, and who confronts his arch-en
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0141196653
- Language: English
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Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories
$20.00 Add to cartAnthony Trollope’s heartwarming tales of Christmas, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift.
Christmas at Thompson Hall collects the best Christmas tales of Anthony Tro- Series: Penguin Christmas Classics #5
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0143122479
- Language: English
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
$8.94 Add to cartBilly Budd is among the greatest of Melville’s works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538913
- Language: English
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The Pleasure of the Text
$17.00 Add to cartWhat is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute “perhaps for the first time in the hi
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374521603
- Language: English
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Death of Virgil
$21.00 Add to cartBegun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, this extraordinary and profound novel is widely regarded as one of the great works of 20th-century modernism. A work that is part … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Broch, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0679755489
- Language: English
