Literary Criticism
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Further Up & Further in: Understanding Narnia
$19.95 Read moreFurther Up & Further In: Understanding Narnia by acclaimed Catholic author Joseph Pearce invites readers to return with the eyes of an adult to C. S. Lewis’s magical land entered through that most imp… [more below]
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1505130794
- Language: English
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To Go Into the Words
$34.95 Read moreTo Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of poets such as William Bronk, Helen A
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0472039415
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$8.99 Read moreDeemed as Homer’s timeless masterpiece, The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem that tells the story of the Trojan War and the heroism of warriors on both sides. With a stunning cover design and insi
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 02 2016
- ISBN10: 8175993448
- Language: English
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Georgette Heyer’s Regency World
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period
“Detailed, informative, impressively researched. A Heyer lover writing for Heyer fans.” —Times Lite
- Author: Kloester, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1402241364
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Add to cartThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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Tolkien: Treasures
$20.00 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. From J. R. R. Tolkien’s childhood in the Midlands and his experience of the First World… [more below]
- Author: McIlwaine, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1851244964
- Language: English
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Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen: Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
$22.95 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen.
It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more- Series: Illustrated Letters
- Author: Hughes-Hallett, Penelope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1849945349
- Language: English
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The Impact of Akira: A Manga (R)Evolution
$29.95 Read moreA global manga phenomenon in the early 1990s, Akira is a futuristic depiction with apocalyptic elements set in a Neo-Tokyo on the brink of civil war. Katsuhiro Otomo’s work is a graphical and narrativ… [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Remi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 15 2021
- ISBN10: 2377842801
- Language: English
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Recipe
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instruct- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bloom, Lynn Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1501367102
- Language: English
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Sewer
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
What can underground pipes tell us about human eating habits and the spread or containment of- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hester, Jessica Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 150137950X
- Language: English
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
$16.95 Add to cartEmpire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boehmer, Elleke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555591
- Language: English
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Dom Casmurro
$19.00 Read moreFirst published in 1900, Dom Casmurro, widely considered Machado de Assis’s greatest novel and a classic of Brazilian literature, is a brilliant retelling of the classic adultery tale–a sad and darkl
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: de Assis, Machado
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0374523037
- Language: English
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Speculation
$26.95 Read moreA wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character.
Engaging with- Author: Vishmidt, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545330
- Language: English
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Under the Glacier
$17.00 Read moreNobel laureate Halld? Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Laxness, Halldor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400034418
- Language: English
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Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
$19.99 Read moreWilliam Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did more than 400 years ago when th
- Author: Harkup, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1472958209
- Language: English
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition
$24.95 Read moreA revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life.
UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1681375834
- Language: English
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction – From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: “This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Ho… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345807170
- Language: English
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Eliot: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
$20.00 Read moreFrom the Nobel Prize winning author—and the most influential poet of the twentieth century—comes a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets edition that includes the masterpieces “The Love Song of J. Alfred… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0375401857
- Language: English
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Lost in Yonkers
$18.00 Read moreNeil Simon’s inimitable play about the trials and tribulations that test family ties–winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
What happens to children in the absence of love? That is the question- Series: Drama, Plume
- Author: Simon, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0452268834
- Language: English
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Mythologies
$22.00 Read moreMythologies is the definitive edition of W.B. Yeats’s folklore & early prose fiction, edited according to Yeats’s final textual instructions.
Its extensive annotation makes luminous Yeats’s ‘fibrous d- Author: Yeats, William Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0684826216
- Language: English
