Classics / Criticism
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Dialogues and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAlain de Botton’s bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy–later made into a six-part TV series–has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offer… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552401
- Language: English
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Children of the Alley
$17.95 Read moreThe tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring na… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0385264739
- Language: English
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Despair
$17.00 Add to cartThe wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime–his own murder. – “A beautiful mystery plot, not to be revealed.” – Newsweek
“Nabokov writes prose … [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: May 14 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723439
- Language: English
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
$17.00 Add to cartTruman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679745645
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
$19.95 Add to cartA collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito–part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy.
Written between April 2012 and Novembe
- Author: Ito, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621920
- Language: English
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Siddhartha
$14.95 Read moreThis classic of twentieth-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha–a tale that has inspired generations of readers. We are invited alon… [more below]
- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library #31
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1611806445
- Language: English
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Catching Fire: A Translation Diary
$15.95 Read moreAn energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.
In Catching Fire, the translation of Diamela Eltit’s Never Did the Fire unfolds in
- Series: Untranslated
- Author: Hahn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1913867250
- Language: English
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
$32.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0374607168
- Language: English
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A Lost Lady
$14.00 Read moreA Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them.
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forres… [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 16 1990
- ISBN10: 0679728872
- Language: English
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Only a Voice: Essays
$29.95 Read moreEssays on politics, power, and culture from one of America’s most eminent critics
In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity’s promise of progress and the sobering reality- Author: Scialabba, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292001
- Language: English
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To the Lighthouse
$28.00 Read moreA collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood
A Penguin Vitae Edition Every summer, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacati- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137573
- Language: English
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Frodo’s Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of the Lord of the Rings
$19.95 Read moreJ. R. R. Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings, has been beloved for generations, selling millions of copies and selling millions more tickets through its award-winning film adaptations. The im… [more below]
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1618906755
- Language: English
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth
$65.00 Add to cartThe range of J. R. R. Tolkien’s talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but als… [more below]
- Author: McIlwaine, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1851244859
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$8.99 Add to cartH.G. Wells’s science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vivid nearly after a century after its appearance, and… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: November 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0553213385
- Language: English
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The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion
$35.00 Add to cartIn The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion internationally acclaimed scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull examine Tolkien’s masterpiece chapter by chapter, offering expert insights into i
- Author: Hammond, Wayne G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618642676
- Language: English
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
$13.95 Add to cartIt is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: “When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.” So begins Ka… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238553
- Language: English
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Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on Tolkien
$29.95 Add to cartA major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship
With the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien’s
- Author: Flieger, Verlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1606350943
- Language: English
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
$11.99 Add to cartWith an Introduction by Angus Calder.
As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First Wor
- Series: Classics of World Literature
- Author: Lawrence, T. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: June 05 1997
- ISBN10: 1853264695
- Language: English
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Fifty-Two Stories
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.
Anton Chekhov l- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0525562389
- Language: English
