Literary Criticism
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Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
$16.99 Read moreWhen you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle’s delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?
If … [more below]
- Author: Clarkson, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1496425804
- Language: English
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A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape
$27.95 Add to cart“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously e
- Author: Eubanks, W. Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1604699582
- Language: English
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Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children’s Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls
$24.99 Add to cart“Ms. Perkins personal anec-dotes are a delight.” –Wall Street Journal
The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spar
- Author: Perkins, Mitali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1506469108
- Language: English
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Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-Earth Beyond the Middle Ages
$29.95 Add to cartTolkien’s Modern Reading addresses the claim that Tolkien “read very little modern fiction, and took no serious notice of it.” This claim, made by one of his first biographers, has led to the widely a… [more below]
- Author: Ordway, Holly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1943243727
- Language: English
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Adonis: Selected Poems
$20.00 Read moreThe first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today
“Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0300181256
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in- Author: Viertel, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536899
- Language: English
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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass
$19.00 Add to cartSet in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen’s years in Africa–together with Shadows on the Grass.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724753
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton
$18.95 Add to cartTu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton’s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in Americ… [more below]
- Author: Fu, Tu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 081122838X
- Language: English
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The Haunted Bookstore – Gateway to a Parallel Universe (Light Novel) Vol. 5
$14.99 Read moreSTORY OF THE HEART
Kaori and Suimei have finally realized how they feel about each other, but their love will have to wait–the bookstore is in terrible danger. One day, a fox spirit called Hakuzousu- Series: The Haunted Bookstore – Gateway to a Parallel Universe
- Author: Shinobumaru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1638587035
- Language: English
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The Pleasure of the Text
$17.00 Add to cartWhat is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute “perhaps for the first time in the hi
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374521603
- Language: English
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Alphabet
$13.95 Read moreAwarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied’s translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen’s poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 193… [more below]
- Author: Christensen, Inger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 17 2001
- ISBN10: 081121477X
- Language: English
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This Little Art
$20.00 Read moreAn essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading,
- Author: Briggs, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1910695459
- Language: English
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The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (Light Novel) Vol. 1
$14.99 Read moreThis highly acclaimed mystery tale about a young man teaming up with a handsome jewelry appraiser inspired a popular anime-and a manga adaptation (also from Seven Seas)!
Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian- Series: The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (Light Novel)
- Author: Tsujimura, Nanako
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1638585776
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Death
$16.95 Add to cart*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award*
The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine po
- Author: Hyesoon, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0811227340
- Language: English
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Magazine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy –- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394959
- Language: English
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Time Come: Selected Prose
$27.99 Read more‘Sharp and still relevant’ – Zadie Smith
“A welcome addition to a sterling literary catalog” – Publishers Weekly
‘A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces’ – Kit de Waal
‘A book to be savored and re-re- Author: Johnson, Linton Kwesi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1035006324
- Language: English
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Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham
$29.95 Read moreA micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love-hate relationship with New York City.
By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Love- Author: Goodwin, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504418
- Language: English
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
$17.95 Read moreThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022027
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
