Literary Criticism
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
$17.95 Read moreFrom Poirot to Miss Marple, from The Mousetrap to Witness for the Prosecution, this a fascinating look at the life and work of Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful and popular crime writer.
Ag- Author: Keating, H. R. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362940
- Language: English
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The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney
$18.95 Add to cartAmong the most accomplished lyrics of the English Renaissance, The Sidney Psalter influenced poets from Donne and Herbert to Milton and beyond. It turned the well-known biblical psalms into sophistica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sidney, Sir Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2009
- ISBN10: 0199217939
- Language: English
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading-- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0345806212
- Language: English
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On Reading
$29.95 Read moreAndr Kert sz (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium’s history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works…. [more below]
- Author: Kertész, André
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393066568
- Language: English
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The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series
$39.99 Read moreThe Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!
Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time(R) by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around- Series: Wheel of Time #16
- Author: Jordan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0765314614
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$19.95 Read moreJames McGavran’s new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist’s voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Sovie… [more below]
- Series: Northwestern World Classics
- Author: Mayakovsky, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0810129078
- Language: English
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Relic
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a signi- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765102282
- Language: English
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The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
$15.00 Read moreThe Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impa
- Series: Art of
- Author: Birkerts, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974899
- Language: English
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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
$19.95 Read moreWhat Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison’s writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 160473017X
- Language: English
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This Is Shakespeare
$19.00 Read moreAn electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing–not resolving–the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality
… [more below]- Author: Smith, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1984898159
- Language: English
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Oh, to Be a Painter!
$15.00 Read moreThe twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.
Despite wide interest- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1644230585
- Language: English
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The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
$18.95 Read moreEssays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time.
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth H- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376237
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition
$25.00 Read moreThis beautifully produced first annotated edition of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s oeuvre re-presents the work of the Jazz Age’s most famous poet
More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264666
- Language: English
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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 Read moreThis 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
