Literary Criticism
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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
$49.92 Read moreA passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives
Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to becom- Author: Weinstein, Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691177309
- Language: English
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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
$18.00 Read more“An elegant, meticulously researched, and eminently readable history of the books that define us as Americans. For history buffs and book-lovers alike, McHugh offers us a precious gift.”–Jake Halpern… [more below]
- Author: McHugh, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1524746649
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the Vermont Book Award
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a fin
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221362
- Language: English
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Well-Kept Ruins
$21.00 Read moreA genre-defying book from one of France’s most well-known philosopher-writers.
In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabr?k. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westp- Series: French List
- Author: Cixous, Hélène
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090596
- Language: English
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
$16.00 Read moreEach working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. I… [more below]
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140144188
- Language: English
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
$18.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed playwright comes “an American masterpiece” (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Twilight is a stunning work of “documentary theater” that explores the devastating human impac… [more below]- Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0385473761
- Language: English
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Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O’Brian, Third Edition
$26.99 Read moreThis indispensable guide to navigating the well-loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated, with new chapters devoted to the final books in the series. Harbors and High Seas includes maps created ex
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0805066144
- Language: English
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Hombres No Son Islas, Los
$20.95 Read moreBased on John Donne’s famous meditation, Nuccio Ordine expands his “ideal library” by inviting us to read–and reread–more selected pages of universal literature. Convinced that a brilliant quote can… [more below]
- Author: Ordine, Nuccio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 8419036129
- Language: Spanish
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Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed
$23.00 Read moreThe first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire
“[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth’s learned,- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270496
- Language: English
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World
$16.95 Read moreWorld–Ana Lu?a Amaral’s second collection with New Directions–offers a new exhilarating set of poems that convey wonder, bemusement, and an ever-deepening appreciation of life. Weaving the thread th… [more below]
- Author: Amaral, Ana Luísa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0811234835
- Language: English
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If It’s Not Funny It’s Art
$15.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author of This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, Demetri Martin returns with another laugh-out-loud collection of hilarious drawings.
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If It’s Not Funny It’s Art- Author: Martin, Demetri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1538729040
- Language: English
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Stones of the Sky
$14.00 Read moreThis suite of thirty poems is Neruda’s last love song to the Earth. When he wrote these poems he was dying of cancer, and as the title suggests he addresses not ordinary stones, but cosmic ones: stone
- Series: Kagean Book
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1556591705
- Language: Spanish
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The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900
$24.00 Read moreHistorian Jeremy Black is comprehensive, as ever, but in his treatment of the British Gothic novel his greatest service is the preservation of the detail–namely, the human impetus behind art that is … [more below]
- Series: The Weight of Words
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1587310090
- Language: English
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Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher
$18.00 Read moreRobert Frost is by far the most celebrated major American poet of the twentieth century. In part, this is because his poetry seems, on the surface, to be so accessible, even homey. But Frost was not j
- Author: Stanlis, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1933859814
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson
$19.00 Add to cartAn essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde about the liberating and unique combin… [more below]
- Author: Noel-Tod, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0141984562
- Language: English
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Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation
$12.95 Read moreRainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005408
- Language: English
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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
$15.95 Read moreA memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers–Erich Auerbach, Fran輟is Fé§elon, and W. G. Sebald–and their relat… [more below]
- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376393
- Language: English
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The Saint’s Magic Power Is Omnipotent (Light Novel) Vol. 6
$14.99 Read morePOTIONS AND POLITICS
Sei’s life has just returned to a semblance of normal when she’s once more summoned to the palace. A foreign prince is coming to the kingdom, ostensibly to study abroad, but his t- Series: The Saint’s Magic Power Is Omnipotent (Light Novel)
- Author: Tachibana, Yuka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1638581665
- Language: English
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The Portable Walt Whitman
$22.00 Read moreA comprehensive collection of Whitman’s most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories
When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437689
- Language: English
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The Bright Side of Life
$13.95 Add to cartOrphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198753616
- Language: English
