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What: New Poems from the Poet Laureate of Punk
$17.99 Add to cartDr John Cooper Clarke’s dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on generations of performance poets and musicians plain for all to see. In WHAT, the o
- Author: Clarke, John Cooper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1035033194
- Language: English
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War Primer
$19.95 Add to cart“English-language edition first published by Libris 1998.”–Title page verso.
- Author: Brecht, Bertolt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1784782084
- Language: English
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Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many
$40.00 Add to cart- Author: Hillman, Thomas P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 160635471X
- Language: English
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The Poems
$9.99 Read moreThe Poems
Shakespeare’s greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocr- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0553213091
- Language: English
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Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
$5.95 Read moreUnique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth cent… [more below]
- Author: Hieatt, Constance
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0553213474
- Language: English
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That Broke Into Shining Crystals
$19.95 Add to cartReverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song.
Trauma and vulnerability – violation and its aftershock – are explor- Author: Scott, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 571391311
- Language: English
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Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
$30.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s imagination and the world he created.
See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters t- Author: Conrad, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1399409190
- Language: English
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On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays
$24.95 Add to cartA new selection of Henry James’s essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay “The Art of Fiction” to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honor? de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and pa… [more below]
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379236
- Language: English
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Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
$18.95 Add to cartIn this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James’ famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its G… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 168137921X
- Language: English
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First Rain in Paradise
$17.95 Add to cartFirst Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis’s highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill
- Author: Lewis, Gwyneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1780377339
- Language: English
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A Little Gaelic Kingdom
$20.00 Add to cart“A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past.”–John Banville
“He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Robinson, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1571313737
- Language: English
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be re… [more below]- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0525432949
- Language: English
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Seamus Heaney’s Gifts
$39.95 Add to cart“The fact of the matter,” Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, “is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry.” Throughout his c
- Author: Hart, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182567
- Language: English
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Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century–an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce
- Author: Leader, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674248392
- Language: English
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God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-language work of all time, i
- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060838736
- Language: English
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Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming
$30.00 Add to cartA fascinating collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.
Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James B
- Author: Fleming, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 63299186
- Language: English
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Sleepers Awake: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA brilliantly inventive book of poems from a fierce poetic voice, whose work John Ashbery called “exciting, necessary, and new.”
Sleepers Awake, Oli Hazzard’s third collection, emerges from the daily d- Author: Hazzard, Oli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0374616183
- Language: English
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Una Pena En Observacion
$11.99 Add to cartEscrito tras la tr?gica muerte de su amada esposa como una manera de sobrevivir los “dif?ciles momentos de la medianoche”, Una Pena en Observaci?n relata los m?s sinceros pensamientos de C. S. Lewis s
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0061140074
- Language: Spanish
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Fat Pig
$16.00 Add to cartCow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who hap
- Author: Labute, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 29 2004
- ISBN10: 057121150X
- Language: English
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The Last Romantic: C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology
$22.00 Add to cartIn this theological and literary investigation, Jeffrey Barbeau explores the influence of nineteenth century Romanticism on C. S. Lewis’s writing in three essays. Drawing on extensive reading of the m
- Series: Hansen Lectureship
- Author: Barbeau, Jeffrey W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1514010518
- Language: English
