Literary Criticism
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Mysticism
$18.95 Add to cartA probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time.
Why mysticism? It- Author: Critchley, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378248
- Language: English
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A River Dies of Thirst
$20.00 Add to cartThis remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish’s last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning a… [more below]
- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0981955711
- Language: English
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The Interpretation of Dreams
$13.95 Add to cart‘Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source’
Artemidorus’ The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Artemidorus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0198797958
- Language: English
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Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679724648
- Language: English
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Screams from the Balcony
$25.00 Add to cartScreams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski’s life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0876859147
- Language: English
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Flannery O’Connor: Spiritual Writings
$19.00 Read moreFlannery O’Connor (1925-1964) is widely regarded as one of the great American writers of the twentieth century, author of singular short stories (including “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “The Life Y
- Series: Modern Spiritual Masters
- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 173
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1570754705
- Language: English
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The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation
$16.95 Add to cartthe lantern light seems to have written a poem;
they feel lonesome since i won’t read them.
–“lantern” by Fei MingThe work of Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei ha
- Author: Wang, Yilin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1778430384
- Language: English
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The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$25.00 Add to cartLearn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple a… [more below]- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1465429875
- Language: English
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Letters from Sweden
$37.33 Add to cartThe “Greatest Generation” was filled with war heroes and love stories, during and shortly after World War II. Love of God, country, and family were the priorities of young men and women facing and sur… [more below]
- Author: Schaeffer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0881468991
- Language: English
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Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology
$12.95 Add to cart‘Who would you say knows himself?’
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contempo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856091
- Language: English
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The Jungle Books
$8.94 Add to cartThe Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the “Mowgli” series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling’s phil… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536457
- Language: English
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Samuel Johnson: The Major Works
$16.95 Add to cartSamuel Johnson’s literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538336
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
$27.00 Read more- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600078
- Language: English
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95 Read moreA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0863565247
- Language: English
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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism
$47.48 Add to cart- Author: Warraq, Ibn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591024846
- Language: English
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David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium
$50.00 Add to cartA remarkable illustrated volume of artwork and images selected from the diaries David Sedaris has been creating for four decades
In this richly illustrated book, readers will for the first time experi- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0316431710
- Language: English
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Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication
$40.00 Add to cartFor writers Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic “hall of mirrors,” Aldous Huxley a “city of dreadful joy.” Wh… [more below]
- Author: Ulin, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 30 2002
- ISBN10: 1931082278
- Language: English
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The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales
$29.00 Read moreOnce upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script.
People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often dr- Author: Duggan, Anne E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147697
- Language: English
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Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God
$16.99 Read moreCaptain America assembles the Avengers. Iron Man battles Thanos. Luke Skywalker duels Darth Vader. Aragorn charges Mordor. Batman confronts the Joker. Superman destroys Doomsday. Wonder Woman defeats … [more below]
- Author: Turek, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1641583517
- Language: English
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The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of Eromanga
$19.99 Add to cartWhile manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium’s international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of … [more below]
- Author: Rito, Kimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1634422538
- Language: English
