Classics / Criticism
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Soldiers’ Pay
$18.00 Add to cartWilliam Faulkner’s first novel is one of the most compelling works of American fiction to emerge from the First World War.
A wounded veteran’s homecoming is at the center of Faulkner’s first novel. Ba- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0593470966
- Language: English
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I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
$26.99 Read moreAn instant New York Times bestseller, I’ll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You’ll Grow Out of It.
Longlisted for the P
- Author: Klein, Jessi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0062981595
- Language: English
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Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
$26.00 Read moreWinner of the 2022 Southern Book Prize
Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
An Indie Next Selection for September 2021
A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 20- Author: Renkl, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 157131184X
- Language: English
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
$17.00 Add to cartPerfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
Anne Fadiman is–by her own admission–the sort of person who learned a- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527229
- Language: English
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
$20.00 Add to cartA Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann’s first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.
Buddenbrooks, first published in- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0679752609
- Language: English
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$14.99 Read moreUncle Tom’s Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of- Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1529011868
- Language: English
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Un Mundo Feliz / Brave New World
$14.95 Read moreUn mundo feliz es un cl sico de la literatura de este siglo. Con iron a mordiente, el genial autor ingl s plasma una sombr a met fora sobre el futuro, muchas de cuyas previsiones se han materializado,… [more below]
- Author: Huxley, Aldous
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 8466350942
- Language: Spanish
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A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
$15.95 Add to cartThe grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a tra… [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0811234479
- Language: English
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Superheroes!: The History of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon from Ant-Man to Zorro
$26.95 Read moreSuperheroes! is the ultimate reference book about the men and women in tights who fight for what’s right and the comic book phenomenon that conquered the world.
From their origins in stories created b
- Author: Solomon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064517
- Language: English
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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
$22.00 Add to cartThe Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as the freest spirit tht has yet existed, wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned … [more below]
- Author: De Sade, Marquis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 799
- Publish Date: January 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130127
- Language: English
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The Bloater
$15.95 Read moreWhy do the only men I know carry wet umbrellas and say “Umm?” I’m being starved alive. Quick: the first bookshop for a copy of the Kama-Sutra.
Min works at the BBC as a sound engineer, and in theory sh
- Author: Tonks, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0811234568
- Language: English
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Voyager: Constellations of Memory
$15.00 Read moreA startling book-length essay, at once grand and intimate, from National Book Award finalist Nona Fern?dez.
Voyager begins with Nona Fern?dez accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an e- Author: Fernández, Nona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452170
- Language: English
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On Bts: Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerity
$12.95 Read moreA love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from t
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Cruz, Lenika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638930643
- Language: English
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Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems about Climate Change
$24.99 Read moreA Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker
In this poignant, timely collection, the renowned Booker Prize-winning author evokes the magic of nature and the urgency of protecting our environment. Twenty tho- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423368
- Language: English
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The Fire Next Time
$22.00 Add to cartAt once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the C… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0679601511
- Language: English
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Agnes Grey
$9.94 Add to cartAnne Bront?’s first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has paral… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bront?, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199296987
- Language: English
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Una Historia de España / A History of Spain
$19.95 Read morePor primera vez un volumen re ne la historia de Espa a escrita por Arturo P rez-Reverte durante m s de cuatro a os en su columna «Patente de corso del XL Semanal.
Un relato ameno, personal, a r
- Author: Perez-Reverte, Arturo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 8420438170
- Language: Spanish
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-Do-Wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction
$35.00 Read moreAn account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre
“When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing car- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300251157
- Language: English
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The Swiss Family Robinson
$7.99 Add to cartThe Swiss Family Robinson is an unforgettable adventure novel that will transport readers to a remote island where a resilient family fights for survival. Follow the Robinson family as they face the
- Author: Wyss, Johann David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 9389178398
- Language: English
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The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts
$29.95 Read morePresented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century’s most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creati
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0674271017
- Language: English
