Literary Criticism
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and T- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Townend, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 26 2024
- ISBN10: 019288204X
- Language: English
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Super Gay Poems: Lgbtqia+ Poetry After Stonewall
$29.95 Add to cartA major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more.
- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0674273117
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$7.99 Add to cart‘No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.’
Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about d- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 019884106X
- Language: English
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Authority: Essays
$30.00 Add to cartA bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?
Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,- Author: Chu, Andrea Long
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0374600333
- Language: English
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Hell Is Dark with No Flowers, Vol. 2 (Light Novel)
$15.00 Add to cartA letter hinting at an impending murder and dismemberment is delivered to Shiroshi’s door, and he and Seiji set out to investigate. They find themselves venturing to a remote island dominated by a tow… [more below]
- Series: Hell Is Dark with No Flowers (Light Novel) #2
- Author: Michio, Yoru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1975379403
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of wo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Clark, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0198841477
- Language: English
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Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life’
This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare’s enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192866362
- Language: English
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Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy
$35.00 Add to cartThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South
Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it- Author: Black, Derek W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272820
- Language: English
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One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting in
$19.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist
One in a Millennial is an exploration- Author: Kennedy, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250874165
- Language: English
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Always the Many, Never the One
$20.00 Add to cartWith a starting point on July 14, 2021, when the Centre national de litt駻ature hosted Pierre Joris’ 75th birthday celebration, Always the Many, Never the One builds upon the initial interview by Flo
- Author: Joris, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1940625580
- Language: English
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The Shepherd’s Calendar: Manuscript and Published Version
$19.95 Add to cartA work of rural beauty by John Clare, one of the greatest pastoral poets of nineteenth century English literature.
- Author: Clare, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1857548914
- Language: English
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A Man of Modern Letters
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #2
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065282
- Language: English
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
$16.99 Add to cart“A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in touch with mankind.” —New York Times
Newly reissued with an introduction by Plum Sykes, this cult favorite is a delightful diary–think Nan
- Author: Hanff, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 006244218X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain: Wit & Wisecracks
$6.95 Add to cartRollicking humor from a great wit, including, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”.
- Author: Peter Pauper Press, Inc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0880880805
- Language: English
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The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition
$29.95 Add to cartFilled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco’s engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their wo… [more below]
- Author: Turco, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0826361889
- Language: English
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
$25.99 Add to cartWhen Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous “Boom” of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only w… [more below]
- Author: Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0195130855
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of W. H. Auden
$18.00 Add to cartThis significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetor… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Auden, W. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0307278085
- Language: English
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The Art of the Hobbit
$45.00 Read moreJ.R.R. Tolkien’s complete artwork for The Hobbit, presented for the first time in this edition.
When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrat- Author: Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0547928254
- Language: English
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Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together
$27.99 Read moreWelcome to Our Book of Awesome, a celebration of the small joys that bring us together.
In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around- Author: Pasricha, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164506
- Language: English
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The Faraway Nearby
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell’s Roses Apricots. Her mother’- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125494
- Language: English
