Literature
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Greek Drama
$6.99 Add to cart- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Hadas, Moses
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553212214
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
$6.95 Read moreThis classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm posses… [more below]
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0553213733
- Language: English
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Introduction by Nicholas Rance
$24.00 Read moreThe doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was a popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and it found its most brilliant realization in Robert Louis Stevenon’s sto
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679405380
- Language: English
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Walden: Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenbourg
$28.00 Add to cartBy virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 11 1993
- ISBN10: 0679418962
- Language: English
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Carta de Una Desconocida
$14.95 Read more“I just want to talk to you, tell you everything for the first time. You should know my whole life, which was always yours even though you never knew it. But only you will know my secret, when I’m dea… [more below]
- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 8495359472
- Language: Spanish
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My Shadow Is Yours
$16.99 Read moreA recent college graduate accompanies a reclusive middle-aged writer on a chaotic road trip to Milan in this hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, friendship, and the pitfalls of nostalgia
In 1995- Author: Nesi, Edoardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1635420687
- Language: English
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Seasons Greetings from George: The Christmas Cards of George MacKay Brown
$19.95 Read moreFrom the early 1960s to the late 1980s, George Mackay Brown wrote new Christmas poems which were printed on cards sent to his close family or friends, or, as the years went on, he designed his own car… [more below]
- Author: Brown
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1915530075
- Language: English
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The Patch
$17.00 Read moreThe Patch is an “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book
The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234883
- Language: English
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
$19.00 Read moreSixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthology
One of the most provocative and talked-about books of the yea- Author: Daum, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081645
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$17.95 Read more‘We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?’ Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set f… [more below]
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1784878065
- Language: English
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Soul and Substance: A Poet’s Examination Papers
$29.95 Read moreA collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright
Jay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half centur- Author: Wright, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245967
- Language: English
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My Life as Edgar
$18.00 Read moreA sensitive portrait of one boy’s travels from earliest consciousness through his salad days in the countryside and onward by a “genius” of “nuanced interior moments” (Los Angeles Times)
Fabre’s abili- Author: Fabre, Dominique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861482
- Language: English
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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
$15.00 Read moreIn The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young’s sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness gu
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Young, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1555975623
- Language: English
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When the Sick Rule the World
$17.95 Read moreA writer takes on subjects as varied as vomit, Kathy Acker’s wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, in lyric explorations of illness, health, and the body.
A moving meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Si
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Bellamy, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1584351683
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$17.95 Read moreA recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed.
The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 1590172256
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound
$15.95 Read morePrometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows … [more below]
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1590178602
- Language: English
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic
$12.95 Read moreA compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and more
In the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson’s prose- Series: Library of America
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1598530844
- Language: English
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Romeo and Juliet
$9.99 Read moreEdited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Romeo and Juliet is the world’s most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2000
- ISBN10: 1840224339
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
$10.00 Read moreOriginally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice’s encounters with
- Series: Alma Junior Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1847494072
- Language: English
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Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures
$14.95 Read moreIn her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, … [more below]
- Author: Goodison, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1912408139
- Language: English
