Literature
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Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass
$7.00 Read moreAuthor, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. This inexpensive c… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0486498824
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$18.00 Add to cartRilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before hi… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0679642323
- Language: English
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The Essential Tagore
$30.00 Read moreThe Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.
Marking the- Author: Tagore, Rabindranath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0674417046
- Language: English
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Stephen Hero
$17.95 Add to cartIt was originally rejected on grounds of indecency–so the story goes– by twenty publishers, whereupon Joyce threw the manuscript in the fire, but Mrs. Joyce rescued several unburnt portions.
Althoug… [more below]
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 17 1963
- ISBN10: 0811200744
- Language: English
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How German Is It
$17.95 Add to cartThe question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish’s novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the p… [more below]
- Author: Abish, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: November 17 1980
- ISBN10: 0811207765
- Language: English
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A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
$23.95 Add to cartA Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pa
- Author: Alshaer, Atef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863569900
- Language: English
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Hemingway on Fishing
$30.00 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
The first and only collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s writings on America’s great passion–fishing–introduced and edited by Nick Lyons with a foreword by Jack- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1476716412
- Language: English
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Cuentos Hispanos de Los Estados Unidos = Hispanic Stories from the United States
$16.95 Read moreThis anthology of short fiction includes works by Hispanic authors of the United States writing in spanish. The stories examine a wide variety of perspectives, lives and experiences, adding more patte… [more below]
- Author: Olivares, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1558852603
- Language: Spanish
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Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Irrealis mood- Author: Aciman, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829283
- Language: English
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition
$24.95 Read moreA revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life.
UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1681375834
- Language: English
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A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song
$18.95 Read moreSimilar to how songs become familiar and welcoming earworms, these essays will imprint themselves on readers’ minds.
A Mind Full of Music contemplates and celebrates the mysterious, powerful, dynamic- Author: Forhan, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1732610363
- Language: English
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney’s poetry and prose–all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies–that reveals the essence of his work and think… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sidney, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538417
- Language: English
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For the Time Being
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a “beautifully written and delightfully strange” (Daily… [more below]
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0375703470
- Language: English
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Little Women
$11.00 Read moreThis American classic is as fresh and meaningful today as it was when it was first written in the mid-nineteenth century. Largely based on the author’s own childhood, Little Women is a timeless tale o… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0486828069
- Language: English
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Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other ’80s Perils
$24.95 Read moreAt the intersection of 1980s pop culture, the Cold War, and the trials of coming of age sits Melt with Me. Paul Crenshaw takes up a range of topics from Star Wars to video games, Choose Your Own Adven… [more below]
- Author: Crenshaw, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258824
- Language: English
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Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction
$19.95 Read moreAt a time when the American publishing industry increasingly perceives fiction lovers as rather delicate creatures–easily offended, allergic to ambiguity, afraid to venture outside their comfort zone
- Author: Schweizer, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988717300
- Language: English
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A Century of Queer Korean Fiction
$40.00 Read moreSelections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature
Following decades of LGBTQ+ activism, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Many openly gay
- Series: MLA Texts and Translations
- Author: Perry, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: December 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1603296271
- Language: English
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The War Nerd Iliad
$22.95 Read moreWe recognize the names: Achilles, Odysseus, Zeus, and Apollo. We’re taught that The Iliad is a foundational text of civilization. But who has really read the text? Until now, The Iliad was hijacked by
- Author: Dolan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1627310509
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$9.99 Read moreIntroduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent.
Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated wor
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260436
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories
$9.99 Add to cartWith a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tal
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: de Maupassant, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 05 1997
- ISBN10: 1853261890
- Language: English
