Literary Criticism
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In the Sierra: Mountain Writings
$18.95 Read moreOver the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leo… [more below]
- Author: Rexroth, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 081121902X
- Language: English
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, Heretics, Blatchford Controversies Volume 1
$21.95 Add to cartContains three of Chesterton’s most influential works. In Heretics, Chesterton sets forth one of the most telling critiques of contemporary religious notions ever. The Blatchford Controversies are the… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: February 13 1986
- ISBN10: 0898700795
- Language: English
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100 Selected Poems: John Keats
$15.99 Read moreOne of the most notable romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats had a poetic career lasting less than a decade. And in this short time, he produced some of the greatest verses of a
- Series: 100 Selected Poems
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 9389178479
- Language: English
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$44.95 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the nex
- Author: Garnett, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179345
- Language: English
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers
$24.95 Read moreRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s–a decade unnervingly similar to our own
In the Company of Radical Wom
- Author: Hennessy, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1517914906
- Language: English
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Why Argument Matters
$20.00 Read moreHailed by the New York Times as a book that “examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence”
“An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Siegel, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271077
- Language: English
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Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art
$18.00 Read moreJournalist and comic book critic Brian Doherty’s Dirty Pictures is the first complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix–“a welcome addition to an under-analyzed … [more below]
- Author: Doherty, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 141975047X
- Language: English
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments “A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live.” —The Washington Post Book World
In this wise and irresistibl- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 1400032601
- Language: English
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Steal Away: Selected and New Poems
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright’s best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new “retablos” and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing aut
- Author: Wright, C. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1556591942
- Language: English
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History and Utopia
$17.99 Read more“Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are,” writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett.
In History and Utopia, C- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1628724250
- Language: English
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Everyday Emerson: A Year of Wisdom
$19.99 Read moreDaily inspiration from American philosopher and transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson
Featuring excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays, poems, and lectures, Everyday Emerson offers 365 snippets of- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250828791
- Language: English
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
$30.00 Read moreIn this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on ev… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 038554748X
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955
$50.00 Read moreSince Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 149683500X
- Language: English
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
$25.00 Read more“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” –NPR
In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specu
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1940696615
- Language: English
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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843
$25.00 Read moreOne of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.
What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091150
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$19.00 Read moreThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces “In
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374521360
- Language: English
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The Thief and the Dogs
$16.00 Read moreNaguib Mahfouz’s haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in priso
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0385264623
- Language: English
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?: Bestselling Author of Family–The Ties That Bind…and Gag!
$9.99 Add to cart“See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud.”
Art Buchwald
The enchanting lady of laughter has done it again–this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, mar… [more below]- Author: Bombeck, Erma
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0449208397
- Language: English
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A Family Guide to Narnia: Biblical Truths in C.S. Lewis’s the Chronicles of Narnia
$16.99 Add to cartDo you read The Chronicles of Narnia sensing that the stories are full of biblical parallels, even if you’re not always sure what they are or where to find them? This user-friendly companion to The Ch
- Author: Ditchfield, Christin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 07 2003
- ISBN10: 1581345151
- Language: English
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Prophets
$45.00 Read more“A brilliant study of the Hebrew prophets, one of the most penetrating works . . . [of] our time.”– Will Herberg
From the legendary twentieth-century Jewish Theologian and author of Man is Not Alone a
- Author: Heschel, Abraham J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063347962
- Language: English
