Classics / Criticism
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The Age of Innocence: Introduction by Peter Washington
$28.00 Read moreOne of Wharton’s most renowned novels–and the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize–exquisitely details the struggle between love and responsibility through the experiences of men and women in
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0307268209
- Language: English
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Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNorth American indigenous literature began over thirty thousand years ago when indigenous people began telling stories of emergence and creation, journey and quest, and heroism and trickery. By settin… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Teuton, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0199944520
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$12.95 Add to cartThe Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a han… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555346
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
$8.94 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the author’s unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlyin… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537038
- Language: English
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My Antonia
$27.00 Add to cartFrom A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers–featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new s- Series: Penguin Drop Caps
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 12 2012
- ISBN10: 143123157
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man: The Memoirs of George Sherston
$20.00 Add to cartThe first volume in Siegfried Sassoon’s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell
A highly decorated English soldier and an- Series: Penguin Classics #1
- Author: Sassoon, Siegfried
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107151
- Language: English
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Iola Leroy: Or Shadows Uplifted
$16.00 Read moreA landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath
First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the s- Series: Penquin Classics
- Author: Harper, Frances Ellen Watkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 014310604X
- Language: English
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Captains Courageous
$17.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
First published in 1897, Captain Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is r- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0142437719
- Language: English
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On Drinking
$26.99 Read moreThe definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol
Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0062857932
- Language: English
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Writings from the New Yorker 1927-1976
$18.99 Add to cartA wise, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.
Written for the New Yorker over a span of forty-nine years, these 161 pieces show White’s changing concerns
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0060921234
- Language: English
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Reading Log Journal For Adults
$14.99 Add to cartThis logbook is a great organisational tool for readers. It helps with future purchases, especially online, and helps to avoid you buying a book only to discover pages in that you’ve read it before. S
- Author: Read Me Press, Pick Me
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1956259376
- Language: English
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The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock ‘n’ Roll
$19.95 Add to cartDrop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you’ve been meaning to pick up–the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since
- Author: Dore, Florence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766201
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: An Illuminated Edition
$100.00 Add to cartFitzgerald’s beloved account of the devastating costs of the American dream gets a fittingly gorgeous update in this high-end art-book edition, elaborately decorated by the famed Italian illustrators
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1948886286
- Language: English
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Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses
$22.95 Add to cartThe Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson burst into public awareness when he opposed the compulsory use of newfangled gender-pronouns. He has since published two best-selling books, 12 Rules … [more below]
- Author: Woien, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1637700121
- Language: English
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speaking with grackles by soapberry trees
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’ John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry, C駸ar L. de Le’s debut book, speaking with grackles by soapberry trees, is a collection of poems th
- Author: de León, César Leonardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: June 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1953447724
- Language: English
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Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors
$25.00 Add to cartA gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland.
For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris–whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdric… [more below]
- Author: Sarris, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 159714567X
- Language: English
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The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings
$20.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke’s influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination
A Penguin Classic For months, the philosopher A- Author: Locke, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 014313521X
- Language: English
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Don Quixote of La Mancha
$22.99 Add to cartNewly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha–called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel
- Series: Restless Classics
- Author: De Cervantes, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1632060752
- Language: English
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Bicycling for Ladies: The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress
$16.99 Add to cartBicycling for Ladies is the trailblazing book that introduced women to bicycling and shocked a Victorian culture on its release in 1896. Today it remains comprehensive and useful, but also celebrates
- Author: Ward, Maria E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1948062526
- Language: English
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The Tale of Genji: The Arthur Waley Translation of Lady Murasaki’s Masterpiece with a New Foreword by Dennis Washburn
$29.95 Add to cart“What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his art has not dimmed, but like the original text itse… [more below]
- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Shikibu, Murasaki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: March 10 2010
- ISBN10: 4805310812
- Language: English
