Literary Criticism
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The Enchanted April
$11.95 Read more‘To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small medieval castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let For the month of April, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.’
Four very different wome- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198859090
- Language: English
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
$7.95 Add to cart‘Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!’
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Do- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0198835221
- Language: English
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Bound to Violence
$19.99 Read moreThis critical edition of the epic 1968 Malian novel explores its enduring literary power and the racist plagiarism scandal that devastated its author, the first African winner of France’s prestigious … [more below]
- Author: Ouologuem, Yambo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423589
- Language: English
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Kaiju No. 8: Exclusive on the Third Division
$10.99 Add to cartKaiju No. 8‘s Third Division takes center stage in this tell-all novel!
Extra! Extra! Read all about the Third Division! After all, who wouldn’t want to memorize every little tidbit about the talented- Series: Kaiju No. 8: Exclusive on the Third Division
- Author: Matsumoto, Naoya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1974749630
- Language: English
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice
$16.95 Read morePoetry. Literary Criticism. A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished practitioners, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO PROSE POETRY is as personal and provocati… [more below]
- Author: McDowell, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0978984889
- Language: English
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
$33.00 Add to cartA Washington Post most anticipated fall book
“How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently dema
A legendary editor’s reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0374270961
- Language: English
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How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
$28.99 Add to cartDiscover the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company, West Side Story, and Into the Woods.
Stephen S- Author: Schoch, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668030594
- Language: English
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Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
$19.99 Read moreFrom Robert Frost’s road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections.
Make sure you- Author: Feder, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1683694740
- Language: English
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Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
$25.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books
From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and Nati- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538768917
- Language: English
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Didion and Babitz
$29.99 Add to cartJoan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions–and mutual antagonisms–of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz. … [more below]
- Author: Anolik, Lili
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1668065487
- Language: English
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Something about Living
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection … [more below]
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Khalaf Tuffaha, Lena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 81
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1629222739
- Language: English
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Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry
$30.00 Read moreFrom the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they’ve been used over the centuries to assemble the most imper… [more below]
- Author: Leithauser, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0525655050
- Language: English
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Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
$18.00 Read moreA “loving, lavishly detailed” (New York Times) and captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry’s life, art, and political activism–one of O Magazine‘s best books of April 2021
“A devoted and deeply fe- Author: Colbert, Soyica Diggs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 030026478X
- Language: English
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Bloom & Other Poems
$22.95 Read more“Bloom and change your way of living,” Xi Chuan exhorts us. “Bloom / unleash a deep underground spring with your rhizome.” In his wildly roving new collection, Bloom & Other Poems, Xi Chuan, like a mo… [more below]
- Author: XI, Chuan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231372
- Language: English
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Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction
$38.00 Read moreAs defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditio
- Series: Integrative Natural History Series, Sponsored by Texas Resea
- Author: Gruesser, John Cullen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430201
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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Fables for Our Time
$15.99 Add to cart“These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are, are completely uproarious.” –The Saturday Review of Literature
James Thurber has been called “one of our grea
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0060909994
- Language: English
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Joy: 100 Poems
$28.00 Add to cartOne hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet
“Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow ne… [more below]- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 030022608X
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Vol. 1: Volume 1
$44.95 Read moreIn more than 300 years of Shakespearean scholarship, only one book, the famous Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, has investigated the meaning of every word that Shakespeare wrote. The life… [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: June 01 1971
- ISBN10: 048622726X
- Language: English
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Greek Drama
$6.99 Add to cart- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Hadas, Moses
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553212214
- Language: English
