Literary Criticism
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The Pocket Haiku
$9.95 Add to cartQuintessential classical Japanese haiku–selected and translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators–now available in a pocket edition.
In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has- Author: Hamill, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1611801532
- Language: English
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Pagan Magic of the Northern Tradition: Customs, Rites, and Ceremonies
$19.95 Read moreA practical guide to the magical history, customs, and practices of pre-Christian Northern Europe
– Details the everyday magic of the Northern Tradition, including household magic, protection spells,- Author: Pennick, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1620553899
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
$25.00 Read moreIn her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening … [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 149682122X
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation – The electrifying collected works of “one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early twentieth-century Japan” (The New Yorker). … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Sagawa, Chika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230019
- Language: English
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The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse
$25.00 Read moreA wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry–itself written entirely in verse
“Reading this book, you get to know poetry from the inside, without the alienating or distr- Author: Newlyn, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0300251912
- Language: English
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Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick
$36.00 Read moreAlthough Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing–or even a novel of the sea. Yet Puli… [more below]
- Author: King, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2021
- ISBN10: 022678987X
- Language: English
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Hello World: The Novel
$14.99 Read moreAn atmospheric high school love story with a science fiction plot full of twists and turns. (And don’t miss the manga adaptation, also from Seven Seas!)
Naomi, a shy teenage bookworm, is visited by hi- Author: Nozaki, Mado
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1648275583
- Language: English
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Literature for a Changing Planet
$31.58 Read moreWhy we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe
Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddl- Series: Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture #1
- Author: Puchner, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691213755
- Language: English
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Peer Gynt and Brand
$17.00 Read moreA new Penguin edition of Ibsen’s two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill.
These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his rep- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0141197587
- Language: English
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Science Fiction
$12.99 Add to cartFrankenstein, The Time Machine, Star Trek, Dune, 1984, Blade Runner–science fiction has been explained as a combination of romance, science, and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Seed, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0199557454
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
$16.98 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0199753636
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time: Within a Budding Grove V. 2 (Revised)
$22.00 Read moreFirst published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhoo… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375752196
- Language: English
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The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
$21.00 Read moreHere in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066227
- Language: English
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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$22.00 Add to cart“Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy.”
Martin L
–Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of Books- Author: Shelby, Tommie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 674237838
- Language: English
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City
$10.95 Read moreAnna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home-in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages o… [more below]
- Series: Literary Travel
- Author: Quindlen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0792242076
- Language: English
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ABC of Reading
$15.95 Read moreThis important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly s… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1186
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218937
- Language: English
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Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
$19.95 Read more“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio C… [more below]
- Author: Cortázar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0811225348
- Language: English
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Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us about Being Human
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men–the list of nam- Author: Morrison, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0812981383
- Language: English
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The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work
$18.00 Read moreFew have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram n Jim nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In th
- Author: Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0983322007
- Language: English
