Literature
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreGraywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles Baxter
As much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiri- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 1555975089
- Language: English
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Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction
$18.00 Read moreBold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read–in any genre–from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands
Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy’s career will surely have noticed- Author: Percy, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1555977596
- Language: English
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Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeAcclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its
- Author: Biss, Eula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1555978231
- Language: English
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Aesop’s Fables
$14.99 Add to cartThis timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop’s fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike.
Aesop’s Fables is part of the Macmill- Author: Aesop
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1509844368
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962 (Loa #226): Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories
$35.00 Read moreBefore winning international fame with Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his bri… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1598531506
- Language: English
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Selected Letters of Abigail and John Adams
$5.00 Read more“America’s first power couple,” John and Abigail Adams enjoyed a relationship of mutual respect and affection. Their exchange of more than 1,000 letters — from their 1762 courtship to the end of John… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Adams, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486841707
- Language: English
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Is Mother Dead
$26.95 Read moreLonglisted for the International Booker Prize
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Hjorth, Vigdis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1839764317
- Language: English
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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
$18.00 Read moreThe New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism
- Author: Scott, A. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109979
- Language: English
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The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
$26.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O’Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry.
This authoritative and acc- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0385491182
- Language: English
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The Book of Embraces
$16.95 Add to cartEduardo Galeano’s is considered a passionate literary voice. In The Book of Embraces, he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, iron… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308553
- Language: English
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Walden and Other Writings
$5.95 Add to cartWith their call for “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity “, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in al… [more below]
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 055321246X
- Language: English
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The Luzhin Defense
$18.00 Read moreNabokov’s third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness.
As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen–an enigma to his parents and an object- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 1990
- ISBN10: 0679727221
- Language: English
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The Confessions of Nat Turner: Pulitzer Prize Winner
$19.00 Add to cartThe story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016)
In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained r- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Styron, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 1992
- ISBN10: 0679736638
- Language: English
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Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
$16.00 Read moreBeloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet.
Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan- Author: Coyote, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0771004303
- Language: English
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, Heretics, Blatchford Controversies Volume 1
$21.95 Add to cartContains three of Chesterton’s most influential works. In Heretics, Chesterton sets forth one of the most telling critiques of contemporary religious notions ever. The Blatchford Controversies are the… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: February 13 1986
- ISBN10: 0898700795
- Language: English
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100 Selected Poems: John Keats
$15.99 Read moreOne of the most notable romantic poets of the early nineteenth century, John Keats had a poetic career lasting less than a decade. And in this short time, he produced some of the greatest verses of a
- Series: 100 Selected Poems
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 9389178479
- Language: English
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Sin Novedad En El Frente
$27.95 Read moreConverted by millions of readers, generation after generation, into the great anti-war classic, All Quiet on the Front is a work of brutal denunciation where Remarque reflects part of his experiences … [more below]
- Author: Remarque, Erich Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 8419179949
- Language: Spanish
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A Tale of One January
$12.00 Read morePoland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march. Each is from a different background and a different country, but all have endured the horrors of imprisonment in Auschwitz.
- Author: Maltz, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0714550620
- Language: English
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers
$24.95 Read moreRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s–a decade unnervingly similar to our own
In the Company of Radical Wom
- Author: Hennessy, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1517914906
- Language: English
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Why Argument Matters
$20.00 Read moreHailed by the New York Times as a book that “examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence”
“An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Siegel, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271077
- Language: English
