Literature
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Stories and Texts for Nothing
$18.00 Add to cartThis volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett… [more below]
- Series: Beckett, Samuel
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150624
- Language: English
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The Haunted Hotel: Annotated Edition
$11.00 Read moreThe Haunted Hotel is a disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra mater
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1847498396
- Language: English
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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
$14.95 Add to cartTales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Sen?ach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dooley, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549850
- Language: English
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Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication
$40.00 Add to cartFor writers Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic “hall of mirrors,” Aldous Huxley a “city of dreadful joy.” Wh… [more below]
- Author: Ulin, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 30 2002
- ISBN10: 1931082278
- Language: English
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The Portable Beat Reader
$24.00 Add to cartBeginning in the late 1940’s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was “beat.” Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the America
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437530
- Language: English
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Arrowsmith: Pulitzer Prize Winner
$7.95 Add to cartWith an afterword by E. L. Doctorow–the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man’s pursuit of intellectual freedom in the face of ignorance and corruption, from the author of Babbit
Arrowsmith, the mo- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0451530861
- Language: English
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The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales
$29.00 Read moreOnce upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script.
People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often dr- Author: Duggan, Anne E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147697
- Language: English
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Don Quijote de la Mancha / Don Quijote of La Mancha
$17.00 Read moreUna nueva edici n de Don Quijote de la Mancha, obra maestra del mundo de la literatura internacional, de la mano de Francisco Rico, fil logo e historiador espa ol. Incluye material adicional, bibliogr… [more below]
- Author: de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1328
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0593081420
- Language: Spanish
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Micrographia
$22.00 Read moreAs Jennifer Bowering Delisle was on her path through infertility towards motherhood, she was simultaneously losing her own mother to a rare degenerative neurological disease and an approaching medical
- Author: Delisle, Jennifer Bowering
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1774220946
- Language: English
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Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History: Complete and Unabridged
$34.95 Read moreEusebius’ Ecclesiastical History is one of the classics of early Christianity and of equal stature with the works of Flavius Josephus. Eusebius chronicles the events of the first three centuries of th… [more below]
- Author: Cruse, C. F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1565638131
- Language: English
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The Belly of Paris
$12.95 Add to cartUnjustly deported to Devil’s Island following Louis-Napoleon’s coup-d’?tat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old March? de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555842
- Language: English
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The Kill: La Curee
$15.95 Add to cartThe Kill (La Cur馥) is the second volume in Zola’s great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris – the capital of modernity – as the centre of Zola’s narrative w… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, Émile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536929
- Language: English
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The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of Eromanga
$19.99 Add to cartWhile manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium’s international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of … [more below]
- Author: Rito, Kimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1634422538
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights
$10.00 Add to cartConsidered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Bront , was asked to pay some of the publicatio
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Bront?, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 1996
- ISBN10: 0486292568
- Language: English
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The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
$15.99 Add to cartMillions of readers have been captivated by C. S. Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so appealing? For more than half a century, scholars h… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1414339658
- Language: English
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Dubliners: Introduction by John Kelly
$28.00 Add to cartThough James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, their unconventional themes and language led to repeated rejections by publishers and d
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 26 1991
- ISBN10: 679405747
- Language: English
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Cane
$15.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane is an innovative literary work–part drama, part poetry, part fiction–powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer’s impressionistic… [more below]
- Author: Toomer, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0871402106
- Language: English
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The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; And Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$26.00 Add to cartThe most cherished novels from England’s talented sisters, all in one gorgeously packaged volume
The Bront family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte’s Jane Eyre a- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Bront?, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105833
- Language: English
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A Loeb Classical Library Reader
$9.95 Add to cartA paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.
This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity’s major authors includes poetry, dial- Series: Loeb Classical Library
- Author: Loeb Classical Library
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 30 2006
- ISBN10: 067499616X
- Language: English
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Belinda
$13.95 Add to cart‘It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.’
Maria Edgeworth’s 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, some- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Edgeworth, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0199682135
- Language: English
