Literary Criticism
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Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers
$19.99 Read moreFind creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars.
If you like to write–whether it’s a pastime, a passion,- Author: Jansma, Kristopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1683693736
- Language: English
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A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry
$16.99 Add to cart“Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishe
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0156724006
- Language: English
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Diary of an Old Soul: Annotated Edition
$31.99 Add to cart“Be thou the well by which I lie and rest;
Be thou my tree of life, my garden ground;
Be thou my home, my fire, my chamber blest,
My book of wisdom, loved of all the best;
Oh, be my friend, each day- Author: MacDonald, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1514007681
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Titties: A Writer’s Guide to Conquering the Most Sexist Tropes in Literary History
$15.99 Read moreFrom the brilliantly funny (and rightfully furious) creator of the viral Men Write Women Twitter account, A Tale of Two Titties is a satirical guide to writing women like a bestselling male author.
Let
- Author: Vondriska, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1728295092
- Language: English
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Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers
$21.00 Read moreA practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own.
Do you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity- Author: Temblador, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 125090711X
- Language: English
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Survival
$21.99 Add to cartWhen first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the
- Series: List
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1770892524
- Language: English
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The Pocket Emily Dickinson
$16.95 Read moreEmily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling image… [more below]
- Author: Dickinson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1645473082
- Language: English
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Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
$32.00 Add to cartA dazzling portrait of Shakespeare as a young artist, revealing how his rich and complex queer life informed the plays and poems we treasure today
“Was Shakespeare gay?” For years the question has se- Author: Tosh, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1541602676
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$18.00 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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Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 (Light Novel) Vol. 2
$15.99 Add to cartTROUBLE ON THE ISLAND
Ayanokouji’s relationship with Karuizawa deepens, while the aftershock of his perfect mathematics score ripples through the school. Horikita asks to join the student council, and- Series: Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 (Light Novel)
- Author: Kinugasa, Syougo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1638583374
- Language: English
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The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$25.00 Add to cartLearn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple a… [more below]- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1465429875
- Language: English
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They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center
$29.95 Read moreIn 1942, after Executive Order 9066 was issued, Japanese American families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition Cen… [more below]
- Author: Baker-Gard, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712357
- Language: English
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My Belly: Exploring Why It’s So Hard for Women to Love Their Bodies
$14.95 Add to cartIf my hatred of my belly was a person, she would be old enough to have completed a lengthy education and given me grandchildren.
An unflinching and feminist portrait of one woman’s obsession with her- Author: ?stby, Hilde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1778400000
- Language: English
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Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy
$24.95 Read moreExploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observer
In Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured t- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1839767251
- Language: English
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Laozi’s DAO de Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time
$24.00 Add to cartA fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics–the foundational work of Daoism–by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously e… [more below]
- Author: Laozi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1668019361
- Language: English
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The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm Jones
$30.00 Read moreDostoevsky’s last and greatest novel is, above all, the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. It is a ma
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410031
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
$35.00 Read moreThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
“Magisterial.”–Kirkus Reviews More than tw- Author: Schmiesing, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300221754
- Language: English
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Much ADO about Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times
$19.95 Add to cartShakespeare’s era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of “zero” to Galileo’s redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Eastaway uncovers the many surprising ways math shaped Shakespeare’
- Author: Eastaway, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893030303
- Language: English
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Greatest Short Stories of Dostoevsky
$5.99 Read moreExplore Fyodor Dostoevsky’s world in the Greatest Stories of Dostoevsky, a captivating collection of timeless tales delving into human complexities. From the poignant beauty of unrequited love in Wh… [more below]
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9358567023
- Language: English
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Look Back in Anger
$24.00 Add to cartJimmy Porter, frustrated and bitter in his drab flat, lives with his middle-class wife, Alison. Also sharing the flat is Cliff who keeps things tenuously together. Alison’s friend Helen arrives and pe… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Plays
- Author: Osborne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 18 1982
- ISBN10: 0140481753
- Language: English
