Classics / Criticism
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The Portable Dante
$24.00 Add to cartThe famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks–The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova–in one volume
A Penguin Classic As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian f- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437549
- Language: English
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Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Gustave Doré
$21.95 Add to cartA mysterious talking raven pays a visit to a man who is distraught from the loss of his lover. The man, aching over the death of his dear Lenore, is upset and distressed by the bird who repeats one wo
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1593623143
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
$22.99 Add to cartRecent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is “the most influential author of the century,” and The Lord of the Rings is “the book of the century.” In support of these claims, the pro… [more below]
- Author: Shippey, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0618257594
- Language: English
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Pragmatism
$6.95 Read moreA profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce’s theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 02, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486282708
- Language: English
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J.B.: A Play in Verse: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
$18.99 Add to cartJ. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God … [more below]
- Author: MacLeish, Archibald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0395083532
- Language: English
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Manga Classics Dracula
$19.99 Add to cartAn ancient evil lurks in the dark heart of Transylvania – but it won’t lurk there forever. Now Count Dracula’s immortal eyes look towards London, a new land full of opportunity and unsuspecting victim… [more below]
- Series: Manga Classics
- Author: Stoker, Bram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1947808060
- Language: English
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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
$19.95 Add to cartAt issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as “part of the effort to define a female consciousn… [more below]
- Author: Rich, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312852
- Language: English
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Goethe’s Faust
$16.00 Add to cartThe best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann’s translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm a… [more below]
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 1962
- ISBN10: 0385031149
- Language: English
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The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
$22.95 Add to cartThe first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories–from myths and fairy tales to jokes
Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex,- Author: Hansen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0691195927
- Language: English
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75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know: The Fascinating Stories Behind Great Works of Art, Literature, Music and Film
$24.99 Add to cartLet Your Faith Be Moved by the Masterpieces
Art becomes a masterpiece when it stands the test of time and challenges its viewers to see the world from a new perspective. The vast legacy of human expres
- Author: Glaspey, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0802420877
- Language: English
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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Leucippe and Clitophon
$13.95 Add to cartAchilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqu? of the five “Greek novels” of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tatius, Achilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555478
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$14.00 Add to cartBurke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack o… [more below]
- Series: English Library
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432043
- Language: English
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
$12.95 Add to cartFrankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written and one of the best-selling books of all time. It is the tale of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist whose unbridled quest for the secret of
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: December 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1734029285
- Language: English
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Meditations
$6.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 11 1997
- ISBN10: 048629823X
- Language: English
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Life Among the Piutes: The First Autobiography of a Native American Woman: First Meeting of Piutes and Whites, Domestic and Social Moralities
$11.50 Add to cartLife Among the Paiutes is considered the “first known autobiography written by a Native American woman.” This is both an autobiographic memoir and history of the Paiute people during their first forty… [more below]
- Author: Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 8027333954
- Language: English
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World as Will & Idea
$12.95 Add to cartThe nineteenth-century idealist philosopher and precursor of Freud
The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the tru- Series: Everyman Paperback Classics
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0460875051
- Language: English
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World Mythology
$26.00 Add to cartThis volume offers 59 of the world’s great myths–including selections from The Iliad and the Odyssey, Beowulf, King Arthur and Quetzalcoatl. Each myth is accompanied by an introduction that offers hi
- Series: General S
- Author: Rosenberg, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0844257672
- Language: English
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
$22.00 Add to cartLearn how to be the best journalist you can be with what “could be the world’s most readable textbook” (Time Out New York).
The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to- Author: Kerrane, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0684846306
- Language: English
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Celtic Myths and Legends
$29.95 Read moreThis splendidly illustrated study by the distinguished Celticist T. W. Rolleston masterfully retells the great Celtic myths and illuminates the world that spawned them. Focusing principally on Irish m
- Series: Celtic, Irish
- Author: Rolleston, T. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0486265072
- Language: English
