Literary Criticism
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Katanagatari 4 (Paperback)
$19.95 Read more“If you’re a fan of the author’s (NISIOISIN) work then you’ll certainly want this whole series in your collection!” – Anime UK News
Swordless “swordsman” Shichika and self-described “schemer” Togame a- Series: Katanagatari
- Author: Nisioisin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 164729178X
- Language: English
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
$16.95 Read moreWhat to read next is every book lover’s greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterate… [more below]
- Author: Pearl, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 1570613818
- Language: English
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We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers
$19.99 Read more“We Are the Baby-Sitters Club is the ultimate companion guide for a generation of devout superfans. This book revisits the beloved series through grown-up eyes–but never loses the magic we all felt t… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Marisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1641604905
- Language: English
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Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human
$30.00 Read moreAn extraordinary menagerie of fantastical and unreal beasts featuring hundreds of illustrations, from griffins to dog-men, mermaids, dragons, unicorns, and yetis.
Fire-breathing dragons, beautiful me- Author: Sax, Boria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145457
- Language: English
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Common Life
$17.95 Read moreA wry, cinematic tour through multiple forms: the poem, the vignette, the play–all set in our laughably lamentable contemporary world.
In three poems, one play, and three short stories, St駱hane Bouq
- Author: Bouquet, Stéphane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 164362153X
- Language: English
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The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection
$29.95 Read moreAn authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary.
Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama a- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271823
- Language: English
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The Parasite: Volume 1
$19.95 Add to cartInfluential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pe
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #1
- Author: Serres, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0816648816
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
$21.00 Read moreNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – National Bestseller – A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change th… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075351
- Language: English
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
$16.00 Read moreA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of- Author: Row, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978320
- Language: English
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Bilbo’s Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in the Hobbit
$19.95 Read moreDiscover the Christian meaning in The Hobbit
In Bilbo’s Journey go beyond the dragons, dwarves, and elves, and discover the surprisingly deep meaning of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel The Hobbit.- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 23 2012
- ISBN10: 1618900587
- Language: English
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The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
$14.99 Read moreNew York Times Bestselling author Pull up a chair and enjoy this hilarious original collection of McManus humor
The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories is a hilarious addition to Patrick F. McManus- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1626361177
- Language: English
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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints
$24.99 Read moreChristianity Today 2023 Award of Merit (Culture & the Arts)
Midwest Book Review 2023 Silver Book Award (Nonfiction – Religion/Philosophy)How do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year’s r… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jessica Hooten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1587435241
- Language: English
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One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art
$26.95 Read moreA selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by auth
- Author: Cirino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927130
- Language: English
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States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
$20.00 Read moreStates of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.
As one of the most discussed b- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0226815536
- Language: English
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What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
$75.00 Read moreOn the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land‘s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Lan- Author: Rasula, Jed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 069122577X
- Language: English
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Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion
$40.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writings
This lively book reveals the cl- Author: Davidson, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0300218729
- Language: English
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Poems of Arab Andalusia
$15.95 Add to cartThese poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa’id, who wanted poems “whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose l
- Author: Franzen, Cola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0872862429
- Language: Spanish
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
$20.00 Read moreA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constan- Series: French List
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092742
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Crit- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222040
- Language: English
