Classics / Criticism
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Julius Caesar
$10.95 Add to cartFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
Award-winning author Christopher Andrews returns once again with his novelization of William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.” As with “Hamle
- Author: Andrews, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1736198335
- Language: English
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Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales
$30.00 Read moreAcclaimed for centuries as the “Father of English Literature,” Geoffrey Chaucer enjoys widespread and effusive praise for his classic Canterbury Tales–and rightfully so. Still, even the greatest of a
- Author: Pugh, Tison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 17, 2024
- ISBN10: 0472133446
- Language: English
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Injusticia Contagiosa: La verdadera historia de supervivencia y pérdida contra la corrupción, el desastre de la COVID-19 dentro de San Quenti
$35.99 Add to cartUna visión secreta del traicionero viaje de un hombre arrojado de una vida exitosa en Silicon Valley a la oscura y asfixiante prisión de San Quentin, con asesinatos, asesinos en serie, ratas y COVID… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1088297668
- Language: Spanish
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Spindrift: A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Stories for Young Children
$17.95 Add to cartSpring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter contain a wide variety of poems, songs, and stories of the seasons and many contributions for festivals. The volume titled Spindrift contains material for use throug
- Series: Wynstones for Young Children
- Author: Wynstones Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0946206503
- Language: English
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Jakob Von Gunten
$16.95 Add to cartThe Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, e… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) #10
- Author: Walser, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0940322218
- Language: English
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In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991
$19.95 Add to cart“In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the
- Author: Momaday, N. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: October 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0826348165
- Language: English
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Cuentos de Cuanto Hay: Tales from Spanish New Mexico
$24.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1931, folklorist J. Manuel Espinosa traveled throughout northern New Mexico asking Spanish-speaking residents for cuentos de cuanto hay, tales of olden times. Espinosa’s transcription
- Author: Hayes, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0826319289
- Language: Spanish
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural (164 Short Stories)
$19.99 Add to cartLong considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in … [more below]
- Author: Songling, Pu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0804849080
- Language: English
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Fires on the Plain
$16.95 Add to cart“Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding.” —The New York Times
**Winner of the 1952 Yomiuri Prize** This haunting novel explores the- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Ooka, Shohei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0804813795
- Language: English
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Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
$22.95 Add to cartIn Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him
- Series: Princeton Classics #4
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160244
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Introduction by Richard Brown
$30.00 Add to cartIn his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, th
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0679405755
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
$9.95 Read moreThis exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature–Emma Bovary.
“Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost a- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0553213415
- Language: English
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Civil War Stories
$5.00 Read moreNewspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed “Bitter Bierce” for his vitriolic
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280381
- Language: English
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
$19.99 Add to cartThe Red Badge of Courage is an American masterpiece-and yet the novel familiar to so many readers is not, in fact, the story Crane wrote. That story is the one printed here, as Henry Binder has recove… [more below]
- Author: Crane, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: November 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0393319547
- Language: English
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony
$21.00 Add to cartA book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759123
- Language: English
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Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women’s Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
$19.00 Add to cart“A brilliant collection…. Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive”. — The New York Times Book Review
Kennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this ind
- Author: Fraser, Kennedy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701125
- Language: English
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Forty-one False Starts
$24.00 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm’s In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murd- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534586
- Language: English
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My 1980s & Other Essays
$25.00 Add to cartWayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays on the 1980s, including essays on major cultural figures such as Andy Warhol and Brigitte Bardot.
W- Author: Koestenbaum, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533776
- Language: English
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
$24.99 Add to cartWhere do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers,… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0316182400
- Language: English
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A Room with a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread: Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater
$32.00 Add to cartE. M. Forster’s beloved Italian novels, now in a single hardcover volume.
Forster’s most memorably romantic exploration of the liberating effects of Italy on the English, A Room with a View follows th- Series: Everyman’s Library
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0307700909
- Language: English
