Literature
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
$14.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0199753636
- Language: English
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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
$19.00 Read moreTheodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass de
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0374515980
- Language: English
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The Dwarf
$18.00 Read more“I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his
- Author: Lagerkvist, Par
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 1958
- ISBN10: 0374521352
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time: Within a Budding Grove V. 2 (Revised)
$22.00 Read moreFirst published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhoo… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375752196
- Language: English
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The House of the Seven Gables
$11.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne’s defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cur… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756876
- Language: English
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Villette
$14.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Jane Eyre, a strikingly modern story of a young woman starting over–with an introduction by Weike Wang, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of Chemistry
“Villette Villette Have y- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 037575850X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
$27.43 Add to cartIrreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook–an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race–contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales … [more below]
- Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #2
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0520242459
- Language: English
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Intruder in the Dust
$15.95 Add to cartAt once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching potrait of racila injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in the Dust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 1991
- ISBN10: 0679736514
- Language: English
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Jo’s Boys
$5.95 Read moreBest known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and misadventures of the March family to an entertaining, su… [more below]
- Series: Little Women
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0553214497
- Language: English
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A Passage to India: Introduction by P. N. Furbank
$28.00 Read moreBritain’s three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one indisputable masterpiece: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, published in 1924, a
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679405496
- Language: English
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Canterbury Tales: Introduction by Derek Pearsall
$28.00 Read moreThe precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer’s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless ve
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679409890
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
$12.95 Add to cartFor daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for -offenses against morality and religion.- What shocks … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0679736360
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights
$6.99 Add to cartA classic novel set on the solemn moors of northern England, Wuthering Heights is the unforgettable story of Heathcliff and Catherine, whose doomed love torments them in a tempest of madness, vengeanc… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Bronte, Emily
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743487648
- Language: English
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The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
$15.95 Read moreThe social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and this book is perhaps his most poignant and concentrated analysis of the artist’s dilemma.
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 1962
- ISBN10: 0811201155
- Language: English
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Helen in Egypt: Poetry
$22.95 Read moreA fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem…. [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 1974
- ISBN10: 0811205444
- Language: English
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ABC of Reading
$15.95 Read moreThis important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly s… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1186
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218937
- Language: English
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Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
$19.95 Read more“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio C… [more below]
- Author: Cortázar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0811225348
- Language: English
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The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work
$18.00 Read moreFew have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram n Jim nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In th
- Author: Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0983322007
- Language: English
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They Got to You Too
$17.00 Read moreWinner of the Sharjah Int’l Book Fair Best International Fiction Award 2022
Hans van Rooyen is a former police general raised by two women who survived the 1899 South African War. He finds himself bei- Author: Ntshingila, Futhi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717418
- Language: English
