Literature
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The Heptameron
$22.00 Read moreIn the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, t… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Marguerite de Navarre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 05 1984
- ISBN10: 014044355X
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.95 Read moreAnna Karenina es, junto con la monumental Guerra y paz, una de las obras clave Lev Tolstoi, en la que vemos todas las se as de identidad del gran realismo ruso: fina cr tica social y multitud de perso… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 8415618883
- Language: Spanish
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The Vicar of Wakefield
$8.95 Add to cartOliver Goldsmith’s hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primros… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Goldsmith, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537542
- Language: English
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The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head: Introduction by Sarah Churchwell
$30.00 Read moreThese two major novels–by one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century–are ferociously dark comedies that combine playfulness with profundity.
A Severed Head (1961) is one of- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Murdoch, Iris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1101907665
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
$9.99 Add to cartWith an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It ha
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260452
- Language: English
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The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
$17.00 Add to cartA Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Though known primarily as a poet, Fernando Pessoa, a writer of “remarkable genius” (Washington Post) wrote prose widely, in several languag… [more below]
- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 080215915X
- Language: English
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Romola
$19.00 Read more- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140434704
- 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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Studs Lonigan
$25.00 Add to cartCollected here in one volume is James T. Farrell’s renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In thi… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Farrell, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141186739
- Language: English
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Representations of the Intellectual
$19.00 Add to cartIn these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today.
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761276
- Language: English
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Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology
$12.95 Add to cart‘Who would you say knows himself?’
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contempo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856091
- Language: English
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The Jungle Books
$8.94 Add to cartThe Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the “Mowgli” series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling’s phil… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536457
- Language: English
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Samuel Johnson: The Major Works
$16.95 Add to cartSamuel Johnson’s literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538336
- Language: English
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The House of the Seven Gables
$5.95 Add to cartThis enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family,- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531620
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
$27.00 Read more- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600078
- Language: English
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Alicia: Edición Completa
$18.95 Read moreLewis Carroll es un referente indiscutible de la literatura universal. Uni su afici n a la literatura con sus conocimientos como profesor de matem ticas para ponerlos al servicio de su obra, salpic n… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Carrol, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8418008172
- Language: Spanish
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Dead Souls: A Poem
$13.95 Add to cartGogol’s tale of a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man is the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554668
- Language: English
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The Thin Red Line
$18.00 Add to cartThey are the men of C-for-Charlie company–“Mad” 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozens more just like them–infantrymen who are about … [more below]
- Author: Jones, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 09 1998
- ISBN10: 0385324081
- Language: English
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The Groundings with My Brothers
$21.95 Read more“I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together.” – Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney e- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1788731158
- Language: English
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95 Read moreA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0863565247
- Language: English
