Literary Criticism
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
$17.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become bette
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0062895818
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.95 Add to cartAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800533
- Language: English
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The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series
$22.99 Add to cartThe Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!
Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time(R) by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around- Series: Wheel of Time
- Author: Jordan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0765314622
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] [Again]
$19.43 Add to cartThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is not so much a play as it is a vaudeville show in which three charismatic, wildly ambitious actors attempt to present all thirty-seven of Shakesp
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Long, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493077309
- Language: English
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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
$26.00 Add to cartSeamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illum
- Author: Vendler, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066383
- Language: English
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
$20.00 Read moreNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.
What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each o- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338166
- Language: English
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A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925-2025
$50.00 Read moreEdited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker
Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker- Author: New Yorker Magazine Inc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593801938
- Language: English
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You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke
$24.99 Add to cartFollowing Rilke’s advice to “live the questions,” this book invites us to draw upon his startling insights and often unconventional wisdom to see ourselves as ripening, unfolding, and always becoming.
- Author: Burrows, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1958972533
- Language: English
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Stars Around My Scars: The Annotated Poetry of Taylor Swift
$16.99 Add to cartGrab your highlighters and favorite red pen and prepare to join professor of “Swifterature” Dr. Elly McCausland as she dives deep into the tortured poetry of Taylor Swift. Going line by line and word … [more below]
- Author: McCausland, Elly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881600815
- Language: English
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Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea
$45.00 Read moreAnyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epice
- Series: Asia Pop!
- Author: Kim, Pil Ho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 082489751X
- Language: English
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
$21.95 Add to cartPROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024
The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765115862
- Language: English
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Bibliophobia: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cart“A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”–Hua Hsu, author of Stay True
“A must for the obsessive reader.”–Elif Batuman… [more below]- Author: Chihaya, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 059359472X
- Language: English
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Thoreau’s God
$20.00 Read moreMeditative reflections on the great spiritual seeker’s deeply felt experience of the divine.
Henry David Thoreau’s spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau’s passionate critique of formal religion is matc- Author: Higgins, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0226827305
- Language: English
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Bold, Badass, and Bookish: Women Writers Who Made History
$10.99 Add to cartA homage to feminist icons in the literary world.
The perfect gift for any book lover, this innovative format features a collection of beautifully illustrated book-puns and literary quotes alongside 25
- Series: Book Buddies #2
- Author: Duopress Labs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1955834512
- Language: English
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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
$20.00 Add to cartChristian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work.
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, a- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338417
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Writing
$17.99 Add to cartA collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s remarks on his craft, taken from his works and letters to friends and colleagues—an essential trove of advice for aspiring writers.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald famou- Author: Phillips, Larry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668070367
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer
$36.95 Add to cartThis book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the celebrated works of William Shakespeare.
- Author: Freebury-Jones, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1526177323
- Language: English
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Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays
$17.95 Add to cart“Sensitive, searingly intelligent, and beautifully written.” –Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
“This is–for real–a masterwork, one I will return to over and over.” –Joanna Rako- Author: Lipson, Nicole Graev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1797228560
- Language: English
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The Life of Christina of Markyate
$15.95 Add to cart‘I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.’
This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire.- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fanous, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 199556059
- Language: English
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Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
$25.00 Add to cart“Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop
Alice Notley, the author of m
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987828816
- Language: English
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