Literary Criticism
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Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming
$23.95 Add to cartA queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emoti… [more below]
- Author: Clare, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032413
- Language: English
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Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966
$18.95 Add to cartThe final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time.
“Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, Andr? Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile al
- Author: Breton, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869393
- Language: English
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an essential guide for writers and readers alike: an exhilarating tour through one hundred novels that “inspires wicked delight.” —Los… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400033187
- Language: English
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Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation
$39.99 Add to cartTaking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-d?m, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholar… [more below]
- Author: Pezzini, Giuseppe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1009479679
- Language: English
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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
$30.00 Add to cart“[An] essential Beat masterpiece.” —The Village Voice.
Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119540
- Language: English
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Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A. A. Milne and the Creation of Winnie-The-Pooh
$33.00 Add to cartFor the 100th anniversary of the publication of “Winnie-the-Pooh,” Gyles Brandreth chronicles the writing of this beloved classic and the life of its creator, A. A. Milne.
Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear- Author: Brandreth, Gyles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250429900
- Language: English
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Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burials
Why, how, and where do we inter our dead?- Author: Luckhurst, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0691278377
- Language: English
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Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays
$24.95 Add to cartIn 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath
Helen Vendl- Author: Vendler, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1598538276
- Language: English
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Oprah’s the Life You Want Book Lover’s Journal
$25.00 Add to cartJoin Oprah on a literary celebration in this guided reading journal featuring 100 writing prompts that will help you discover and remember the power of great books.
Also features inspirational quotes- Author: Oprah Daily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 195839517X
- Language: English
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Modernism: A Literature in Crisis
$26.00 Add to cartAn engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism
Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of cultural innovation, spanning artforms and nations. It was centred around feelings of gro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284373
- Language: English
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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation
$35.00 Add to cartNo writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth?a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine tha
- Author: Drout, Michael DC
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324093889
- Language: English
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
$15.00 Add to cart“Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”
—The Merry Wives of Windsor
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, a… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969324
- Language: English
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The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift
$12.00 Add to cartA keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath
In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist c- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1644454084
- Language: English
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Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways
$23.00 Add to cartA chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked … [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0345467345
- Language: English
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Animal Stories
$17.95 Add to cartFrom a writer who has “invented a new form” (Annie Ernaux), an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals.
Animal Stories begins with Kat… [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Zambreno, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893380200
- Language: English
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Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books.
Why do we read- Author: Bo-Reum, Hwang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639737790
- Language: English
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Henry VI: Parts I, II, and III
$19.00 Add to cart“The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.”
–Henry VI
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of the three-part … [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0812969405
- Language: English
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The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories
$19.95 Add to cartVirginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction–published in its final, revised form for the first time
A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0691263132
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$18.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110368
- Language: English
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Vintage Hughes
$19.00 Add to cartThe perfect introduction to one of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s, featuring a career-spanning collection of poems and three of his most powerfu… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400034027
- Language: English
