Classics / Criticism
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Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World
$18.00 Read moreA confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.
In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira- Author: Brum, Eliane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452197
- Language: English
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Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood
$26.95 Add to cartThe intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essay… [more below]
- Author: Davey, Moyra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1583220720
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.99 Add to cart‘One of the greatest love stories in world literature’ Vladimir Nabokov
Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story i- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1784871958
- Language: English
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El Arte de la Guerra
$12.95 Add to cartExpressed in a concise and direct style that renders the message effective and appealing to modern audiences, this Chinese military treatise is just as relevant today as it was more than 2,000 years a… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 8417430563
- Language: Spanish
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Letters from Tove
$19.95 Read moreA virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1517910102
- Language: English
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend
$21.00 Add to cart“John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece.” —The New Yorker
“Doctor Faustus is Mann’s deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods.” –- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375701168
- Language: English
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Japanese Tales
$23.00 Add to cartTwo hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan–tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and dem… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Tyler, Royall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 13 2002
- ISBN10: 0375714510
- Language: English
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Mushroom
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Rich, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1501386581
- Language: English
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North and South
$17.99 Add to cartOne of literature’s greatest romances, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is both an incisive social commentary and an electric portrayal of all-conquering love.
This edition features an afterword b- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1509827943
- Language: English
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The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
$20.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, characters, symbols, and places. Seven essays… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Quick Reference
- Author: Lupack, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 019921509X
- Language: English
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So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth
$21.95 Read moreAn anthology of nonfiction by writers of color that transcends form, So We Can Know is a record of varied and intricate relationships to pregnancy.
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1642598399
- Language: English
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Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction
$19.95 Read moreExploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if … [more below]
- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1645471470
- Language: English
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Where All Good Flappers Go: Essential Stories of the Jazz Age
$18.00 Read more“I believe in the flapper as an artist in her particular field, the art of being – being young, being lovely.” — Zelda Fitzgerald
A sparkling new collection of “flapper fiction” stories featuring the- Series: Essential Stories
- Author: Earle, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 178227930X
- Language: English
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Culpeper’s Complete Herbal: Over 400 Herbs and Their Uses
$12.99 Read moreFrom Artichoke to Rhubarb- Vine to Hawthorn- The Complete Herbal provides the most comprehensive listings of herbs and their uses in existence.
First published over 350 years ago by herbalist and apot- Author: Culpeper, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1789506522
- Language: English
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Interventions 2020
$110.75 Add to cartThe death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the p
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1509549951
- Language: English
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The Optimist’s Daughter
$16.00 Add to cartThis Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 11 1990
- ISBN10: 067972883X
- Language: English
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Kinderland
$16.95 Read moreFrom the author of the award-winning The Censor’s Notebook, a novel about children whose parents have departed for employment in foreign lands, told through the perspective of a young girl who is resp… [more below]
- Author: Corobca, Liliana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1644213273
- Language: English
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The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
$17.00 Read moreA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and t
- Author: Forna, Aminatta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159869
- Language: English
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By the Sea
$30.00 Read moreA masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants’ conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it
On a late November- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 059371654X
- Language: English
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Pinocchio: The Adventures of a Puppet, Doubly Commented Upon and Triply Illustrated
$27.50 Read moreA richly illustrated analysis from one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers.
In Pinocchio, Giorgio Agamben turns his keen philosopher’s eye to the famous nineteenth-century novel by Carlo Collodi- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: June 21 2023
- ISBN10: 180309138X
- Language: English
