Classics / Criticism
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
$20.00 Add to cartIn this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0805008209
- Language: English
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas
$24.99 Read moreOver the centuries, Northern mythology has exerted much influence on Western customs, language, and literature. Its principal theme of the perpetual struggle of the beneficent forces of nature against… [more below]
- Author: Guerber, H. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 21 1992
- ISBN10: 0486273482
- Language: English
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The Wild Swans at Coole: A Facsimile Edition
$18.00 Add to cartA stunning facsimile of the 1919 first edition of William Butler Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole: an elegant volume showcasing these poems as they would have first been read and a complement to facsim… [more below]
- Series: Yeats Facsimile Edition
- Author: Yeats, William Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 150110604X
- Language: English
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Hymns to the Night (Revised)
$6.50 Read moreThis bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins’ best-selling translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Friedrich von Hardenberg’s classic romantic long poem, and the substantially diffe
- Author: Higgins, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 55
- Publish Date: September 01, 1988
- ISBN10: 0914232908
- Language: English
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The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe
$36.00 Add to cartDavid Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to castastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated … [more below]
- Author: Roskies, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0827604149
- Language: English
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Hermetic Definition: Poetry
$15.95 Add to cartHD, Hermetic Definition. Late poems from H.D. embracing the passion of an elderly life
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0811204537
- Language: English
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Friends of Thunder: Folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees
$21.95 Add to cartThe Cherokee husband-and-wife team who recorded and translated these folktales in 1961 helped to preserve the lore of seventeen elder Oklahoma Cherokees. This volume includes a wide variety of folklor… [more below]
- Author: Kilpatrick, Jack F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0806127228
- Language: English
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Requiem for a Nun
$18.00 Add to cartThis sequel to Faulkner’s most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0307946800
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Plassans
$14.95 Add to cart‘Abbe Faujas has arrived!’
The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Fran?is Mouret in particular. Faujas and his- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199664781
- Language: English
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Fools Crow
$18.95 Add to cartFrank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social… [more below]
- Author: Mails, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: August 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803281749
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
$9.00 Read moreIn an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time.
Having witnessed firsthand… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0486290360
- Language: English
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The History of the Kings of Britain
$19.00 Add to cartCompleted in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portrayin… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27 1977
- ISBN10: 0140441700
- Language: English
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The Enlightened Mind
$17.99 Add to cartA magnificent compilation of sacred writings from all traditions and the perfect companion to Stephen Mitchell’s poetry collection, The Enlightened Heart, and the bestselling Tao Te Ching
A collection
- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0060923202
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the g… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 080321880X
- Language: English
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Strenuous Life
$12.95 Read moreTeddy Roosevelt lived a full and accomplished life and shared many of his beliefs in this book, where he tells how to live life to its most productive and fullest.
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 23 1992
- ISBN10: 1557091420
- Language: English
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Henry Miller on Writing
$16.95 Read more“A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” –Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
Auth… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #151
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: January 17 1964
- ISBN10: 0811201120
- Language: English
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Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
$17.99 Add to cart“One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”–Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women
“Nora Ephron for the millennial generation.”-
- Author: Alderton, Dolly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063319128
- Language: English
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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition
$10.99 Add to cartIn this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to l… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0451149165
- Language: English
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Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
$9.99 Add to cartHawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods (1915) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultur
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Westervelt, W. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1513295896
- Language: English
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The Giver: An Instructional Guide for Literature
$12.99 Add to cartYoung readers will be captivated as they discover the dark secrets of a supposedly utopian society in this classic Newbery Award-winning novel. The Giver: An Instructional Guide for Literature provide… [more below]
- Series: Great Works: Instructional Guides for Literature
- Author: Kemp, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1425889786
- Language: English
