Literary Collections
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Phaedrus
$10.95 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554021
- Language: English
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Great Speeches
$5.00 Add to cartFor someone who claimed he had been educated by littles — a little now and a little then — Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable el… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 20 1991
- ISBN10: 0486268721
- Language: English
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Essential Feminist Reader
$20.00 Add to cartIncluding: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois H l ne Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling – Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Freedman, Estelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0812974603
- Language: English
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Against Everything: Essays
$19.00 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating- Author: Greif, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1101971746
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
$24.95 Read moreThe first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick’s illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Elizabeth Hardwick- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1681371545
- Language: English
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
$40.00 Read moreLetters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection
- Author: Usher, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1838853170
- Language: English
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Painting Is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993
$32.00 Read moreArt writing, theory, poetry and more from a leading champion of “painting as a poetic act”
This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry (1948-93), an extraordinary
- Author: Murry, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1940190304
- Language: English
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Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces
$16.95 Read moreIn Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesoth
- Author: McGrath, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1950539504
- Language: English
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Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, the Codex, Melancholy, Lucretiun, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias
$18.00 Read more“I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt’s idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous an
- Series: Department of Critical Thought
- Author: Robertson, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 31 2012
- ISBN10: 1897388896
- Language: English
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Caribbean Folk Tales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation
$28.99 Read moreCaribbean folk tales set alongside local reminiscences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain
Caribbean islands are rich in oral stories. Steeped in history where ancestors arrived as slave- Author: Shearer, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0750994894
- Language: English
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Blue Movie
$28.00 Read moreBlue Movie is a horror show come to life. It is one written and cast from the darkest corners of the Internet. In it, readers will witness the brutal unmaking of a human, the terrifying collapse of ho
- Author: Ferris, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 9798987019993
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$19.99 Add to cartThe words held within these pages, written over two and a half thousand years ago, ring just as true today as they did in fifth century BC China. Bestselling author and master storyteller James Clavel
- Author: Sun Tzu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1982537485
- Language: English
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The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales
$28.99 Read moreCarefully selected stories from the celebrated Folk Tales series have been gathered here for this special volume. Herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers performin… [more below]
- Author: History Press Uk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0750993219
- Language: English
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Astra Magazine, Filth: Issue Two
$19.00 Read moreAstra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world.
Astra Magazine connects readers and writer… [more below]- Author: Spiegelman, Nadja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1662619014
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Values
$15.95 Add to cartJerry Apps details the virtues and hardships of rural living.
“Do your chores without complaining. Show up on time. Do every job well. Always try to do better. Never stop learning. Next year will be- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0870208632
- Language: English
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The Quarter: Stories
$14.95 Read moreMeet the people of Cairo’s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambl… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863563759
- Language: English
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Emerson Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures/Essays: First and Second Series/Representative Men/English Traits/The Conduct of Life
$40.00 Add to cartOur most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called “the great and crescive se… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1150
- Publish Date: November 15 1983
- ISBN10: 0940450151
- Language: English
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How Canada Works: The People Who Make Our Nation Thrive
$27.99 Read moreFrom #1 bestselling authors Peter Mansbridge and Mark Bulgutch comes a new book of first-person stories about the unique people and professions that make Canada work.
In this latest collection of pers- Author: Mansbridge, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1668017172
- Language: English
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
$25.99 Add to cartA selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri
T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century l
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 006297811X
- Language: English
