Literature
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
$16.95 Read moreRevised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes “any verbal nuance, however slight, w… [more below]
- Author: Empson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 1966
- ISBN10: 081120037X
- Language: English
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The Crack-Up
$19.95 Add to cartThe Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald’s sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0811218201
- Language: English
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La Caida de la Casa Usher
$20.95 Read moreThe Fall of the House of Usher is the quintessential gothic tale: a haunted house, a gloomy landscape, two twin brothers, a mysterious illness. All the elements of the genre are easily identifiable, a… [more below]
- Author: Allan Poe, Edgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 8417651438
- Language: Spanish
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Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$24.00 Read moreThe first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters'” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Provides an occasion to revisit- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271131
- Language: English
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On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
$40.00 Read moreA sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book histor- Author: Holsinger, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260210
- Language: English
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The Strangers’ House: Writing Northern Ireland
$30.00 Read moreA penetrating study and celebration of Northern Irish literature–telling the region’s story through the extraordinary novels and poetry produced by decades of conflict.
Northern Ireland is one hundr- Author: Poots, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 153870157X
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$14.99 Read moreNow on Netflix! Jane Austen’s wickedly satirical final novel, starring Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding and Richard E. Grant.
Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series o- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621706
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting
$17.99 Read moreJane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able… [more below]
- Series: Read and Reflect with the Classics
- Author: Prior, Karen Swallow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1462796680
- Language: English
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Islands in the Stream
$32.00 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
A later, posthumously published classic following the adventures of a painter in the midst of World War II. First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway’s death, thi- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0743253426
- Language: English
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My Emily Dickinson
$15.95 Add to cartFor Wallace Stevens, “Poetry is the scholar’s art.” Susan Howe–taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides–embodies that art in her
- Author: Howe, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0811216837
- Language: English
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South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South
$29.95 Read moreThis anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the … [more below]
- Author: Aryal, Khem K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1680032968
- Language: English
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Dove Descending: A Journey Into T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
$16.95 Read moreThroughout the world, many consider T.S. Eliot to be the most important and influential poet of the 20th century, and Four Quartets to be his finest poem and greatest literary achievement. Dove Descen… [more below]
- Series: Sapienta Classics
- Author: Howard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170406
- Language: English
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Los Hermanos Karamazov / The Brothers Karamazov
$15.95 Read moreFi?dor P?vlovich Karam?zov, un terrateniente borracho, arbitrario y corrompido, tiene cuatro hijos: Dmitri, de car?cter violento; Iv?n, un intelectual fr?o y materialista; Aliosha, el hijo peque?o, pa… [more below]
- Author: Dostoievski, Fiodor M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1144
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 8491050051
- Language: Spanish
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Just Us: An American Conversation
$30.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation–Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increas- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1644450216
- Language: English
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
$17.00 Read more“At a time when many Americans . . . are engaged in deep reflection about the meaning of the nation’s history [this] is an exceptionally useful companion for those who want to do so with honesty and i… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1984878425
- Language: English
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Babbitt
$10.95 Add to cartAmusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materiali… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0199567697
- Language: English
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The Library at Night
$19.95 Read moreA celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, i- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0300151306
- Language: English
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The Thorny Grace of It: And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics
$14.95 Add to cartBest-selling and award-winning essayist Brian Doyle knows that the heartbeat of Catholicism is found not in papal decrees and pageantry, but in the parish halls, potluck dinners, and the believing com… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0829439064
- Language: English
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This Is Not a Novel and Other Novels
$19.95 Add to cartDavid Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called “hypnotic,” “stunning,” and “exhilarating” and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallac… [more below]
- Author: Markson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027143
- Language: English
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The Diary of Adam and Eve: And Other Adamic Stories
$12.95 Read moreWritten in diary form, The Diary of Adam and Eve is an ingenious, witty, and ultimately delightful retelling of the dawn of human creation with many a grain of truth for today’s gender disputes. Maste… [more below]
- Series: Hesperus Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1843910055
- Language: English
