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Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartAfter years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was genera… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Clare, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549796
- Language: English
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The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy
$39.99 Add to cartFor four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remn… [more below]
- Author: Rix, Robert W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1009359479
- Language: English
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Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
$20.00 Add to cartPublished in 1931, Axel’s Castle was Edmund Wilson’s first book of literary criticism–a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six m
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529272
- Language: English
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The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems
$15.95 Add to cartPoetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women.
This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Ad駘ia Prado. Incorporating poems publish
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry in Translation
- Author: Prado, Adélia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0819511773
- Language: English
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Smilla’s Sense of Snow
$24.50 Read moreShe thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories–a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced sh… [more below]
- Author: Hoeg, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0385315147
- Language: English
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Road-Side Dog
$18.00 Add to cartI went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from.
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526230
- Language: English
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English Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartA renowned critic, biographer, and Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate provides in this Very Short Introduction a lively and engaging overview of the literature that Jorge Luis Borges called “the riche… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bate, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0199569266
- Language: English
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Quiet Places
$19.00 Add to cartA career-spanning collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English
Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke’s forays into the border- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250862965
- Language: English
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Bloodhoof
$15.49 Add to cartBloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem . It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerour Gymisdottir from a land of giants and the subsequ… [more below]
- Author: Kristný, Gerður
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: June 20 2012
- ISBN10: 1908376104
- Language: English
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Meditations on Quixote
$19.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1914, Meditations on Quixote was Ortega’s first book. It has immensely grown in value with time, and since the 1930’s, when Ortega himself began to refer back to it in his later wri
- Author: Ortega y. Gasset, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: May 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0393001253
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: Uncensored Unabridged Edition
$16.79 Add to cartThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, prior t
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 3755100126
- Language: English
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Inventing the Enemy: And Other Occasional Writings
$15.95 Add to cartThe final collection from the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and one of the most influential, and entertaining, intellectuals of the last century–essays full of passion, curiosity, and ob
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0544104684
- Language: English
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Ncs: The Sonnets 2ed
$13.00 Add to cartThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and… [more below]
- Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: June 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0521678374
- Language: English
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Lectures on Don Quixote
$18.99 Add to cartA fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work … [more below]
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0156495406
- Language: English
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97,196 Words: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartA selection of the best short work by France’s greatest living nonfiction writer
No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes cues from such
A New York Times Notable Books of 2020- Author: Lambert, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758092
- Language: English
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Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil
$14.00 Add to cart“Evocative . . . A paean to the life, cities and food of the Mediterranean . . . His essays . . . reveal a man of deep feeling and humanity” (The Guardian).
A short sublime book on the three things de- Author: Izzo, Jean-Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1609456033
- Language: English
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Gothic Tales
$14.95 Add to cartArthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198734301
- Language: English
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Writings on Art and Poetical Theory
$20.00 Add to cartWritings on Art and Poetical Theory contains a selection of Fernando Pessoa’s writings (or those of his heteronyms) on art and poetical theory, originally written in English. In Pessoa’s oeuvre one fi… [more below]
- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1940625505
- Language: English
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Practicalities
$15.00 Add to cart“It’s the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities of life,” declares Duras in this collection of her transcribed conversations with friend Jerome Beau… [more below]
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 22 1993
- ISBN10: 0802133118
- Language: English
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Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway
$21.95 Add to cartA collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll
Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calli
- Author: Kittelsen, Theodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1517911397
- Language: English
