Literary Criticism
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Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves: Bookmarked
$16.95 Add to cart“There was a book. Oh man was there a book. It is still to this day a book I mention it to any book lover if asked for a recommendation. The best books stick with you, often reminding you of the power
- Series: Bookmarked #5
- Author: Seidlinger, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1632460513
- Language: English
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Bibliotherapy: Books to Guide You Through Every Chapter of Life
$17.99 Add to cartA beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what life’s throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a. ‘your inclusive AF feminist book club’
Through turbulent time
- Author: Masters, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0008587310
- Language: English
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The Worlds of George RR Martin: The Inspirations Behind Game of Thrones
$35.00 Add to cartIn the many realms of modern fantasy there is only one true King, and his name is George Raymond Richard Martin.
With A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin has created a world on a scale almost unrivalled by- Author: Huddleston, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0711288526
- Language: English
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Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartVidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses, he leaps a
- Author: Ravinthiran, Vidyan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021322
- Language: English
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Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
$37.00 Add to cartBraiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work.
By the middle of the twentieth century, Rober- Author: Plunkett, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0374282080
- Language: English
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The Joyce of Everyday Life
$29.95 Add to cartPart of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it wa… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Irish Writers
- Author: Mahaffey, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: September 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1684485266
- Language: English
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Don Juan: And Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartThis selection of seven of Moli?re’s prose plays includes “Precious Provincials,” “The Would-be Gentleman,” “Don Juan,” “The Reluctant Doctor,” “Scapin the Schemer,” “The Miser,” and “George Dandin.” … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Moli?re
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540225
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$28.00 Add to cartA highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator a… [more below]
- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602790
- Language: English
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100 Books That Changed the World
$27.95 Read moreA thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world’s most influential books.
Many books have become classics, must-reads, or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to h- Author: Salter, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1849948674
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own
$14.99 Add to cart- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1509843183
- Language: English
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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the World
$32.00 Add to cartA rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factor… [more below]
- Author: Lynskey, Dorian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593317092
- Language: English
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Othello (Pocket Classics)
$4.99 Read moreExperience the heart-wrenching tragedy of Othello with this pocket-sized edition. Shakespeare’s powerful exploration of jealousy, manipulation, and the destructive power of suspicion can now be carri
- Series: Pocket Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 9386538245
- Language: English
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A Bestiary
$16.00 Add to cartLiterary Nonfiction. Essays. Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum.
Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, a… [more below]
- Author: Hoang, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0996316744
- Language: English
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Dyke (Geology)
$9.95 Add to cartThrough intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a smal… [more below]
- Author: Imbler, Sabrina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1625577168
- Language: English
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
$23.00 Read moreDazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our… [more below]
- Author: McClatchy, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 1400030935
- Language: English
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The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Divine Design in “The Lord of the Rings”
$29.99 Add to cartJ. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has long been acknowledged as the gold standard for fantasy fiction, and the recent Oscar-winning movie trilogy has brought forth a whole new generation of fans. M… [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Fleming
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 373
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802824978
- Language: English
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The Golovlyov Family: Shchedrin
$22.95 Add to cartSearingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Shchedrin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322579
- Language: English
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Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
$39.95 Add to cartTales of Dionysus is the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. By any standard, the Dionysiaca
- Author: Levitan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0472038966
- Language: English
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The Incognito Lounge
$16.95 Add to cartRaymond Carver said of The Incognito Lounge, Denis Johnson’s third and most widely acclaimed book of verse: The subject matter is harrowingly convincing, is nothing less than a close examination of th… [more below]
- Series: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry
- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0887484735
- Language: English
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Memory Serves: Oratories
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed ov
- Series: Writer as Critic #13
- Author: Maracle, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1926455444
- Language: English
