Classics / Criticism
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Parzival: A Romance of the Middle Ages
$16.00 Read more- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Von Eschenbach, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 12 1961
- ISBN10: 0394701887
- Language: English
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Are Women Human?
$13.99 Read moreIntroduction by Mary McDermott Shideler
One of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to b- Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 75
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0802829961
- Language: English
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The Collected Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
$9.99 Read moreWith an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.
Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellingt
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Mansfield, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 1840222654
- Language: English
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
$14.99 Read moreAn emotionally stirring story, Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is rightfully considered to be one of the finest novels ever written.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of st- Series: Monsters and Misfits
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621617
- Language: English
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Index Cards: Selected Essays
$17.95 Read moreIn these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter–with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book–and links that subjec… [more below]
- Author: Davey, Moyra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229513
- Language: English
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The Reivers
$18.00 Add to cartOne of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741925
- Language: English
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Niki
$18.99 Read moreA resilient Greek woman recounts her and her family’s extraordinary story at the end of her life, marked by the great historical events of the twentieth century.
Born in 1938, Niki, the daughter of th- Author: Chomenidis, Christos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1635421977
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles
$19.95 Read moreThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain’s journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts… [more below]
- Series: Notebook
- Author: de Vito, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1579129978
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
$9.99 Read moreWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce’s Dubliners and
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260061
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
$8.95 Add to cartHardy’s last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure caused much outrage when it was published in 1895. Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953702X
- Language: English
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The Three Musketeers: Introduction by Allan Massie
$35.00 Add to cartAlexandre Dumas’s most famous tale– and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time– in a handsome hardcover volume.
This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in Fran- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0307594998
- Language: English
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The Vagabond
$12.95 Read moreFrom the author of Gigi comes this tale of 33-year-old Renée Néré, recently divorced and seeking a new life as a vaudeville performer. Maxime, a wealthy playboy, tempts her from the path of indepen… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0486475859
- Language: English
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One of Ours
$14.95 Add to cartWilla Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier.
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the younge- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0679737448
- Language: English
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Zofloya: Or the Moor
$15.95 Add to cartFew venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.’ This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dacre, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549737
- Language: English
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The Death of the Heart
$17.00 Add to cartThe Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen’s best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals her… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0385720173
- Language: English
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Magazine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy –- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394959
- Language: English
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Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham
$29.95 Read moreA micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love-hate relationship with New York City.
By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Love- Author: Goodwin, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504418
- Language: English
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On Being Ill: With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen
$16.00 Add to cartWith magnificent language, Virginia Woolf explores the ways that illness transforms our perceptions
This new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mothe… [more below]
- Series: Paris Press
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1930464134
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
