Literary Criticism
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Clive Barker’s Dark Worlds: The Art and History of Clive Barker
$50.00 Read moreA deep dive into the creative world and personal archive of the master of horror Clive Barker, from Hellraiser and Candyman to today.
“I’ve seen the future of horror . . . and his name is Clive Barker- Author: Phil and Sarah Stokes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758462
- Language: English
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Reading the Stars: Astrology for Book Lovers
$19.99 Read moreAn original and entertaining mash-up of literature and astrology for book lovers and star watchers alike.
Astrology continues to be a popular trend–people are looking to the stars, the moon, and the- Author: Book Riot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 141975887X
- Language: English
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My Emily Dickinson
$15.95 Add to cartFor Wallace Stevens, “Poetry is the scholar’s art.” Susan Howe–taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides–embodies that art in her
- Author: Howe, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0811216837
- Language: English
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South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South
$29.95 Read moreThis anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the … [more below]
- Author: Aryal, Khem K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1680032968
- Language: English
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Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
$18.95 Read more“Outstanding.” – The Sunday Times
“Beautifully written.” The Times
“Superbly adroit.” The Spectator
“Excellent.” BBC History Magazine
The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading- Author: Parker, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1350383406
- Language: English
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Dove Descending: A Journey Into T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
$16.95 Read moreThroughout the world, many consider T.S. Eliot to be the most important and influential poet of the 20th century, and Four Quartets to be his finest poem and greatest literary achievement. Dove Descen… [more below]
- Series: Sapienta Classics
- Author: Howard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170406
- Language: English
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
$17.00 Read more“At a time when many Americans . . . are engaged in deep reflection about the meaning of the nation’s history [this] is an exceptionally useful companion for those who want to do so with honesty and i… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1984878425
- Language: English
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The Library at Night
$19.95 Read moreA celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, i- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0300151306
- Language: English
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Twelve Great Books: Going Deeper Into Classic Literature
$17.95 Read moreTap into the wealth and health of Christian civilization with the help of literary critic Joseph Pearce.
After learning the true meaning of the word “civilization”–a society rooted in truth–the reade
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1621645738
- Language: English
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Grave
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they c- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Meier, Allison C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383655
- Language: English
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A Preface to Paradise Lost
$26.00 Add to cartC. S. Lewis’s illuminating reflections on Milton’s Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis’s own.
In Preface to Paradise Lost, the Christian apo
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0063222132
- Language: English
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Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
$23.00 Read moreA collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis
In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has be- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858828
- Language: English
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Where the Muses Still Haunt: The Second Reading
$26.00 Read more“Re-reading is one of life’s joys,” Anne Drury Hall reminds us. Not simply from the sweetness of remembering or because of the way a book can be like an old friend, but because returning to a great bo… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Anne Drury
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1587315394
- Language: English
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A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist
$24.95 Read moreCompleting Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells
- Author: Wells, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1350365505
- Language: English
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreGraywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles Baxter
As much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiri- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1555975089
- Language: English
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Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreBold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read–in any genre–from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy’s career will surely have noticed- Author: Percy, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1555977596
- Language: English
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Reader’s Digest Laughter Is the Best Medicine: All Time Favorites: The Funniest Jokes, Stories, and Cartoons from 100 Years of Reader’s Digest
$9.99 Read moreA hilarious collection of the funniest family-friendly jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, and anecdotes from the past 100 years of Reader’s Digest magazine. A little chuckle every day will keep the doc… [more below]
- Series: Laughter Medicine
- Author: Reader’s Digest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621455963
- Language: English
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Loner Life in Another World (Light Novel) Vol. 5
$14.99 Read moreWAR LOOMS ON THE HORIZON
As the kingdom bears down on the frontier, Haruka steps up to prepare his fellow classmates for war. But getting battle ready means achieving level 100, a peak reached only by- Series: Loner Life in Another World (Light Novel)
- Author: Goji, Shoji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 572
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1638582998
- Language: English
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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
$18.00 Read moreThe New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism
- Author: Scott, A. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109979
- Language: English
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The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
$26.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O’Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry.
This authoritative and acc- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0385491182
- Language: English
