Literary Criticism
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Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See
$18.99 Add to cartA new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert’s graduate work in ch
- Author: Lambert, Megan Dowd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1623545773
- Language: English
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The Village of Stepanchikovo: And Its Inhabitants: From the Notes of an Unknown
$16.00 Add to cartSummoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140446583
- Language: English
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California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature
$30.00 Add to cartDive into the revelatory worlds of California’s most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future.
“In Freeman’s hands, California is a l
- Author: Freeman, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146927
- Language: English
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The Threshold and the Ledger
$14.95 Add to cartA timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.
Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559676
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Murder
$19.99 Add to cartThe new and updated 10 year anniversary edition
Winner of the Edgar, Agatha, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating crime-writing awards, this definitive account of the secretive Detection Club and its trail-bla
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0008708940
- Language: English
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Abbey’s Road
$24.00 Add to cart“The natural world, as we call it, has already become remote, out of reach, mysterious, in the minds of urban and suburban Americans. They see the wilderness disappearing, slipping away, receding into… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265649
- Language: English
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
$24.99 Add to cartThe literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.
“An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionat
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063452049
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: A Norton Critical Edition
$11.90 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.
- A full introduction, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.
- An unusually rich
- Series: Norton Critical Editions #0
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393656594
- Language: English
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Unmasking The Humourist: Alexander Gordon’s Lost Essays of Colonial Charleston, South Carolina
$27.95 Add to cartColonial America’s Greatest Literary Mystery Solved at Last
Unmasking The Humourist is a groundbreaking literary investigation that solves one of Colonial America’s greatest mysteries: Who wrote The Hu
- Series: The Wired Researcher
- Author: Kendrick, Brent L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886799156
- Language: English
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Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment
$29.00 Add to cartA collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh’s work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people making lives amid these historical forces.
Wild Fictions b- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2025
- ISBN10: 022684532X
- Language: English
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Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld
$26.00 Add to cartAn enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon and Middle Earth
Originating in Norse and Celtic mythologies, elves and fairies- Author: Egeler, Matthias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284403
- Language: English
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89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem
$25.99 Add to cartTwo newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time.
Translating a work from its original language can
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063436434
- Language: English
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How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People
$24.95 Add to cartOn the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianism
Children’s author Philip Pullman famously said that “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fict- Author: Wannamaker, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509800
- Language: English
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Pocket Book of Dragons: Myth, Magic & Meaning
$16.95 Add to cartCelebrating the stories and symbolism of the king of mythical beasts, the Pocket Book of Dragons explores dragons throughout history and across the world.
Overflowing with ancient and modern dragon ta- Author: Levy, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1797235583
- Language: English
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Ring Legends of Tolkien Deluxe Edition
$19.99 Add to cartThe most popular legends about the Rings of Power are discussed in detail in this deluxe edition that will hold a special place on your bookshelf.
The history of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional world of- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1667211331
- Language: English
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The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare
$30.00 Add to cartHow Shakespeare became Shakespeare: a riveting tale of London’s first playhouse and the people–actors, writers, builders, investors–who built the Theatre.
Between 1576 and 1598, a playhouse called- Author: Swift, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0374601275
- Language: English
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Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism
$24.00 Add to cartOstensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America’s most important essa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sarmiento, Domingo F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140436774
- Language: English
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The House of Being
$14.00 Add to cartAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey
“Trethewey doesn’t just explore the- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 030028179X
- Language: English
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How Poems Get Made
$20.99 Add to cartWhy does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exem… [more below]
- Author: Longenbach, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355209
- Language: English
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The Raven: The Classic Poem
$18.99 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” comes to life for young readers in this enchantingly illustrated picture book of the classic spooky poem.
Once upon a midnight dreary . . . So begins the story of a ma- Author: Bristol, Chloe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489618
- Language: English
