Classics / Criticism
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Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals
$24.95 Add to cartIn this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Callin… [more below]
- Author: Levins Morales, Aurora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2019
- ISBN10: 147800309X
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$38.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARD
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its represe- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 525505997
- Language: English
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The Dreams in the Witch House: And Other Weird Stories
$19.00 Add to cart“The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity . . . “
Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic University’s infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the pa- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lovecraft, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437956
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Augie March
$20.00 Add to cartNobel Prize winner Saul Bellow‘s greatest novel
Winner of the 1954 National Book Award One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
“The Adventures of Augie March is the Great Amer- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bellow, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039571
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
$6.99 Add to cartFlamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the E… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0553212540
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$15.99 Add to cartWilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequ
- Series: Wordsworth Collector’s Editions
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1840228377
- Language: English
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Meditations
$14.99 Add to cartThe Meditations are a set of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius. He writes about the vicissitudes of his own life and explores how to live wisely and virtuously in an unpredictable world.
Part of- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1529015022
- Language: English
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The Little Book of J.R.R. Tolkien: Wit and Wisdom from the Creator of Middle Earth
$8.95 Add to cartA renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created an entire alter
- Series: Little Books of Literature #11
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1800693745
- Language: English
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NB by J. C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement
$24.95 Add to cart“Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more–a uniquely personal miscel… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881753
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$3.95 Add to cartPackaged in handsome and affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Hucklebe… [more below]
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1945186178
- Language: English
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
$17.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become bette
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0062895818
- Language: English
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
$20.00 Add to cartA NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail)Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine des
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457374
- Language: English
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Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath
$16.00 Add to cart“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate
A Penguin Classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to creat- Series: Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy #1
- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0141180412
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.95 Add to cartAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800533
- Language: English
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The Last Man
$13.95 Add to cartA futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley’s most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Per… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199552355
- Language: English
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Dandelion Wine
$25.99 Read moreRay Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal wor
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0380977265
- Language: English
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With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
$28.00 Read more“Master craftsman” (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-ne… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096302
- Language: English
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To a God Unknown
$17.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140187510
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
$25.00 Add to cartDaniel Defoe’s great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0141393408
- Language: English
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The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series
$22.99 Add to cartThe Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!
Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time(R) by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around- Series: Wheel of Time
- Author: Jordan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0765314622
- Language: English
