Literature
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
$30.00 Read moreIn this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on ev… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 038554748X
- Language: English
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The Last of the Mohicans
$6.95 Read moreJames Fenimore Cooper’s classic American story of life on the frontier during the French and Indian War.
The Last of the Mohicans, one of the world’s great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birt… [more below]- Series: Leatherstocking Tales
- Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0451417860
- Language: English
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
$25.00 Read more“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” –NPR
In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specu
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1940696615
- Language: English
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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843
$25.00 Read moreOne of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.
What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091150
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$19.00 Read moreThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces “In
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374521360
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$10.95 Add to cartSir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two ancient C… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Harrison, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540160
- Language: English
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The Thief and the Dogs
$16.00 Read moreNaguib Mahfouz’s haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in priso
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0385264623
- Language: English
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From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer
$18.95 Read moreLuis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire … [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1609809726
- Language: English
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Anthem
$4.99 Read moreEquality 7-2521 finds himself out of step with the collectivist society of the future, and discovers a means to freedom in Ayn Rand’s fable of the individual in conflict with society.
First published
- Series: Mint Editions
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1513264591
- Language: English
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100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
$19.00 Read more100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl.
This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child c- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535671
- Language: English
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The Tale of Genji
$8.00 Add to cartCompleted in the early 11th century, The Tale of Genji is considered the supreme masterpiece of Japanese prose literature, and one of the world’s earliest novels. A work of great length, it comprises … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Murasaki, Lady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0486414159
- Language: English
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Shadows We Carry
$17.95 Read moreIn this sequel to the award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, the Lubinski twins struggle with their roles as women and coming to terms with their family’s Holocaust legacy at the same ti… [more below]
- Author: Ain, Meryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1684632005
- Language: English
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A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape
$27.95 Add to cart“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously e
- Author: Eubanks, W. Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1604699582
- Language: English
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The Odyssey & the Iliad Complete
$30.00 Add to cartA gorgeous collector’s edition of The Greatest Epics in Western Literature, now in the Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy and Epic Tales series.
Two great epics of Western Culture are combined here into one v- Series: Gothic Fantasy
- Author: Makrinos, Antony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1839649666
- Language: English
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Desire and Fate
$24.00 Add to cartAt a time when political writing and cultural criticism have come to be dominated by an insipid and unthinking moralism, David Rieff’s essays offer a bracing antidote. The writings collected in Desire… [more below]
- Author: Rieff, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1912475383
- Language: English
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All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body
$19.95 Add to cartWith women’s anger, empowerment, and the critical importance of intersectional feminism taking center stage in much of the dialogue happening in feminist spaces right now, an anthology like this has n
- Author: Burlison, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 162963705X
- Language: English
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Baking with Kafka
$19.95 Read moreA best-of collection of literary humour cartoons from the critically-acclaimed Guardian cartoonist
In his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and c- Author: Gauld, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1770462961
- Language: English
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The Cheapest Nights
$18.00 Read moreFrom the “genius of the short story,” a collection illuminating the lives of the Egyptian lower class by one of the most important and innovative voices of Egyptian literature
A Penguin Classic One of- Author: Idris, Yusuf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0143133985
- Language: English
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Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children’s Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls
$24.99 Add to cart“Ms. Perkins personal anec-dotes are a delight.” –Wall Street Journal
The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spar
- Author: Perkins, Mitali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1506469108
- Language: English
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Great Short Stories by American Women
$8.00 Read moreEmbracing a wide variety of subjects, this choice collection of 13 short stories represents the work of an elite group of American women writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The earliest stor… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Ward, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0486287769
- Language: English
