Literary Criticism
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The Book
$20.00 Add to cartFollowing the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.
True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle… [more below]
- Author: Ruefle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798891060043
- Language: English
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Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave Barry
$24.00 Add to cartNow in paperback from the Pulitzer Prize winner, the hilarious New York Times-bestselling exploration of what generations can teach one another–or not.
During the course of his life, Dave Barry has- Author: Barry, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0425280144
- Language: English
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The Star Thrower
$27.95 Add to cartA collection of the author’s favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley’s entire writing career and provide a sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist, a… [more below]
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Eiseley, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0156849097
- Language: English
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Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many
$40.00 Add to cart- Author: Hillman, Thomas P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 160635471X
- Language: English
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V Is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death
$28.00 Add to cartFourteen stories. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s all made-up …
Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off ill-fated vi- Author: Harkup, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1399413074
- Language: English
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Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
$40.00 Read moreRobert E. Howard (1906-1936) is most widely known today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, more popularly referred to as Conan the Barbarian. However, he also wrote across a wide array of genres
- Author: Oliver, Willard M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419633
- Language: English
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A Dictionary of Tolkien Deluxe Edition
$19.99 Add to cartDive into the fantastical world and vocabulary of J. R. R. Tolkien with this deluxe edition that will stand out on your bookshelf.
J. R. R. Tolkien created characters and a world so unique and so rich- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1667207741
- Language: English
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Hell Is Dark with No Flowers, Vol. 3 (Light Novel): Volume 3
$16.00 Add to cartDetective Shiroshi and his pet assistant Seiji venture to Okuhida to investigate a baffling old case involving people being attacked in the streets. At their ryokan in the mountains, which burn with a… [more below]
- Series: Hell Is Dark with No Flowers (Light Novel) #3
- Author: Michio, Yoru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 197537942X
- Language: English
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Baldwin, Styron, and Me
$17.95 Add to cartAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.
In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s g
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #52
- Author: Abdelmoumen, M?likah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966262
- Language: English
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Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising
$22.95 Add to cartIt’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical … [more below]
- Series: Q+ Public
- Author: Flor?ncio, Jo?o
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1978837542
- Language: English
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Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds
$29.95 Read moreHarnessing the power of storytelling for political progress
Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties- Author: Citton, Yves
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1839766980
- Language: English
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Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
$30.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s imagination and the world he created.
See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters t- Author: Conrad, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1399409190
- Language: English
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On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays
$24.95 Add to cartA new selection of Henry James’s essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay “The Art of Fiction” to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honor? de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and pa… [more below]
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379236
- Language: English
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King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen King
$25.00 Add to cartOver the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore… [more below]
- Author: Magistrale, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: March 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1496852753
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Greatest Love
$14.99 Add to cartRelying on historical and literary evidence hidden in plain sight, Shakespeare’s Greatest Love tells the true, uncensored love story of William Shakespeare and Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampt
- Series: Disruption Curios
- Author: Medina, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1633311066
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby
$8.99 Add to cart- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 019886440X
- Language: English
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$18.99 Add to cartIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live i
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110384
- Language: English
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Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
$18.95 Add to cartIn this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James’ famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its G… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 168137921X
- Language: English
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Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus [With CDROM]
$35.00 Add to cart***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER***
Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals.
In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters th- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 037542394X
- Language: English
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be re… [more below]- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0525432949
- Language: English
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