Literary Criticism
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Death in the Afternoon
$21.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic exploration of the history and pageantry of bullfighting, and the deeper themes of cowardice, bravery, sport and tragedy that it inspires.
Still considered one of the best b- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 16 1996
- ISBN10: 0684801450
- Language: English
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The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
$82.00 Add to cart“The perfect companion to enjoy the most profound stories of the human condition that Shakespeare has given us and that I have had the privilege to perform, from Othello to King Lear.”–James Earl Jon… [more below]
- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1824
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0141000589
- Language: English
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Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, 1925-1928
$35.00 Add to cartThis fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf’s essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit, and original intelligence…. [more below]
- Series: Essays of Virginia Woolf
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0156035227
- Language: English
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Invitation to a Beheading
$17.00 Add to cartLike Kafka’s The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world.
In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading fo- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: September 19 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725318
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$18.99 Add to cart“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry
In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603613
- Language: English
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION
“The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and morta- Author: Boyer, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1250757983
- Language: English
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Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books
$35.00 Add to cartA visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library, this dream-and-drool design book features some of the most jaw-dropping book collections of homeowners around the… [more below]
- Author: Freudenberger, Nina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0525575448
- Language: English
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By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the New York Times Book Review
$20.00 Add to cartSixty-five of the world’s leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them
Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see whic
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 125007469X
- Language: English
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Book Love
$14.99 Read moreBookworms rejoice These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels for hardcovers. And paperbacks And ebooks And bookstores And libraries
Book Love is a gift book of- Author: Tung, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1449494285
- Language: English
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The Descent of Alette
$20.00 Add to cartThe Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds hers… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140587640
- Language: English
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The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
$18.00 Add to cartA timeless classic on the art of theatre from the most influential stage director of the twentieth century.
In this seminal and iconoclastic book, groundbreaking director and cofounder of the Royal Sh- Author: Brook, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684829576
- Language: English
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The Devil Finds Work: An Essay
$15.00 Add to cartFrom “the best essayist in this country” (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0307275957
- Language: English
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So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
$19.99 Add to cartThe “Fresh Air” book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby — “The Great American Novel we all think we’ve read, but really haven’t.”
Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who- Author: Corrigan, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0316230065
- Language: English
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
$24.00 Add to cartBest Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor)
Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R.- Author: Zaleski, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536252
- Language: English
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Poetry as Insurgent Art
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti’s… [more below]
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0811217191
- Language: English
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River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
$18.00 Read more“Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work.”– from the Foreword by Fran?ise Verg?.
What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonial
- Author: Abbas, Nuzhat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 177525674X
- Language: English
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The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer–lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge–history, scien
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 06 2006
- ISBN10: 1933435097
- Language: English
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Thomas and Beulah
$15.95 Add to cartA collection of poetry by Rita Dove.
- Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0887480217
- Language: English
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The Little Book of J.R.R. Tolkien: Wit and Wisdom from the Creator of Middle Earth
$8.95 Add to cartA renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created an entire alter
- Series: Little Books of Literature #11
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1800693745
- Language: English
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NB by J. C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement
$24.95 Add to cart“Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more–a uniquely personal miscel… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881753
- Language: English
