Literature
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
$42.00 Add to cartIn fin-de-si cle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a strikin… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Hustvedt, Asti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1096
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890951072
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$9.99 Read moreIntroduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it th
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260002
- Language: English
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Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception
$29.95 Read moreAn infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East.
In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal heat of the de- Author: Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1733628169
- Language: English
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Astra Magazine, Filth: Issue Two
$19.00 Read moreAstra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world.
Astra Magazine connects readers and writer… [more below]- Author: Spiegelman, Nadja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1662619014
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$11.95 Add to cartCousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553947
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$9.94 Add to cartOne of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0198702647
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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The Wanting Seed
$16.99 Read moreTristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalist… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback Fiction
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 393315088
- Language: English
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The Quarter: Stories
$14.95 Read moreMeet the people of Cairo’s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambl… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863563759
- Language: English
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Mrs. Dalloway
$18.00 Read moreIn the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smit
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172655
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Read moreThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Emerson Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures/Essays: First and Second Series/Representative Men/English Traits/The Conduct of Life
$40.00 Add to cartOur most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called “the great and crescive se… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1150
- Publish Date: November 15 1983
- ISBN10: 0940450151
- Language: English
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El Espejo Enmendado / A Mirror Mended
$17.95 Add to cartEl espejo enmendado de Alix E. Harrow, la autora superventas de Las brujas del ayer y del ma?ana y de Las diez mil puertas de Enero, consigue insuflar de un atractivo incuestionable a una nueva versi?… [more below]
- Series: Las F?bulas Fracturadas
- Author: Harrow, Alix E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 8419743151
- Language: Spanish
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Annotation
$15.95 Read moreAn introduction to annotation as a genre–a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication–and its significance in scholarship and everyday life.
Annotation–the addition of a note to a t- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kalir, Remi H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0262539926
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
$28.99 Add to cartThe classic guide, now available in a hardcover edition–a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make yo
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0062696858
- Language: English
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
$25.99 Add to cartA selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri
T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century l
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 006297811X
- Language: English
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The Portable Henry Rollins
$22.00 Read moreHenry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year… [more below]
- Author: Rollins, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0375750002
- Language: English
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Sanctuary
$17.00 Add to cartA powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0679748148
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Diane Johnson
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Grea
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783326
- Language: English
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Just What the Doctor Disordered: Early Writings & Cartoons of Dr. Seuss
$14.95 Add to cartBefore his worldwide fame as a bestselling children’s author, Theodor Seuss Geisel was a prolific writer and cartoonist for humor magazines of the early twentieth century. The creator of Green Eggs an… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
- Author: Dr Seuss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: December 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0486498468
- Language: English
