Classics / Criticism
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The Art of the Poetic Line
$15.00 Read moreThe Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impa
- Series: Art of
- Author: Longenbach, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974880
- Language: English
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Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer
$9.99 Read moreHorrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They
- Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
- Author: Lynch, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05 2008
- ISBN10: 1840220775
- Language: English
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Fifth Business
$17.00 Read moreThe first book in Robertson Davies’s acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchend- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Davies, Robertson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 141186151
- 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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The Master Key
$14.95 Read moreA new edition of this prizewinning classic mystery from one of Japan’s best-loved crime writers
A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all… The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo c- Series: Pushkin Vertigo
- Author: Togawa, Masako
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1782277722
- 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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Letters to a Young Poet
$6.95 Add to cartIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to th… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486422453
- 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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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
$6.95 Read moreMark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic.
Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arth- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 361
- Publish Date: November 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0451529588
- Language: English
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Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
$20.00 Read moreRalph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his re… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 1400043166
- Language: English
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings
$32.00 Add to cartA collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer’s most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick.
A Penguin Vitae Edition Wonderfully sardonic and slyly- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134795
- Language: English
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
$7.99 Read moreHarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
‘My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen,
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0008542120
- Language: English
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The Nine Cloud Dream
$17.00 Add to cartKorea’s most prized literary masterpiece: a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human life–presented in a vivid new translation by PEN/Hemingway finalist Heinz Insu Fenkl
*Named one of the- Author: Man-Jung, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0143131273
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
$55.00 Add to cartThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had–in the words of
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0674057929
- Language: English
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The Villain’s Dance
$16.95 Read moreFull of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain’s Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.
Zaire. Late 90’s. Mobutu’s thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, th
- Author: Mwanza Mujila, Fiston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1646051270
- Language: English
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
$27.95 Read moreAn indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded
Samuel R. Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 081956883X
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$30.00 Read moreAn award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys–and challenges–of the genre
In Don’t Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduc… [more below]- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0465094503
- Language: English
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
$14.99 Add to cartA comical futurist fantasy, first published in 1904, about a tradition-loving suburban London community of the 1980s at war with its modernizing neighbors. Chesterton’s splendid storytelling gifts and… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 1991
- ISBN10: 048626551X
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$8.99 Read moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students an… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 676
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 074348763X
- Language: English
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The Woman in White
$6.95 Read moreWilkie Collins’ classic tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity
ONE OF TIME‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME “There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road–the- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 01 1985
- ISBN10: 055321263X
- Language: English
