Literary Criticism
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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
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James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study
$15.95 Read more- Author: Gilbert, Stuart
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 12 1955
- ISBN10: 0394700139
- Language: English
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Shakespeare After All
$29.00 Read moreA brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.
Draw- Author: Garber, Marjorie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: September 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0385722141
- Language: English
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The Quotable Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Wit and Wisdom
$7.95 Read more“I must die as I lived, beyond my means.” Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes’ most notorious and witty sa… [more below]
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Running Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0762449829
- Language: English
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Women Poets of Japan
$16.95 Read moreIn this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Staring with th… [more below]
- Author: Atsumi, Ikuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 17 1982
- ISBN10: 0811208206
- Language: English
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Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing
$36.95 Read moreFire and Ink is a powerful and impassioned anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays that confront some of the most pressing social issues of our day. Designed to inspire and inform, this co… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Frances Payne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0816527938
- Language: English
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
$27.95 Add to cartAn indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded
Samuel R. Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 081956883X
- Language: English
