Literature
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This Side of Paradise
$9.99 Read moreAmory Blaine, a young Midwesterner, is convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future. The reader follows Amory as he falls in love with Isabelle Borg?, a wealthy young debutante; a cruel an
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172329
- Language: English
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Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
$27.95 Read moreExamines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps
Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and e- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 080701592X
- Language: English
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Exemplary Stories
$12.95 Add to cartMore popular in their day than Don Quxixote, Cervantes’s Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, the Exemplary Stories defy the conventi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Decervantes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555001
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton
$18.95 Add to cartTu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton’s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in Americ… [more below]
- Author: Fu, Tu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 081122838X
- Language: English
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Second Star: And Other Reasons for Lingering
$18.00 Read moreA #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life’s smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windows
A still life- Author: Delerm, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861547
- Language: English
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La Batarde
$18.95 Add to cartAn obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La B?arde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own i
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Leduc, Violette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974575
- Language: English
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The Jungle Books
$11.00 Add to cartThe story of the man-cub Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, guided by his mentors Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and the ancient python Kaa, and who confronts his arch-en
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0141196653
- Language: English
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Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories
$20.00 Add to cartAnthony Trollope’s heartwarming tales of Christmas, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift.
Christmas at Thompson Hall collects the best Christmas tales of Anthony Tro- Series: Penguin Christmas Classics #5
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0143122479
- Language: English
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
$8.94 Add to cartBilly Budd is among the greatest of Melville’s works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538913
- Language: English
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The Pleasure of the Text
$17.00 Add to cartWhat is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute “perhaps for the first time in the hi
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374521603
- Language: English
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Death of Virgil
$21.00 Add to cartBegun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, this extraordinary and profound novel is widely regarded as one of the great works of 20th-century modernism. A work that is part … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Broch, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0679755489
- Language: English
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Parzival: A Romance of the Middle Ages
$16.00 Read more- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Von Eschenbach, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 12 1961
- ISBN10: 0394701887
- Language: English
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Are Women Human?
$13.99 Read moreIntroduction by Mary McDermott Shideler
One of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to b- Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 75
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0802829961
- Language: English
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The Collected Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
$9.99 Read moreWith an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.
Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellingt
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Mansfield, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 1840222654
- Language: English
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
$14.99 Read moreAn emotionally stirring story, Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is rightfully considered to be one of the finest novels ever written.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of st- Series: Monsters and Misfits
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621617
- Language: English
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Index Cards: Selected Essays
$17.95 Read moreIn these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter–with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book–and links that subjec… [more below]
- Author: Davey, Moyra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229513
- Language: English
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The Reivers
$18.00 Add to cartOne of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741925
- Language: English
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Niki
$18.99 Read moreA resilient Greek woman recounts her and her family’s extraordinary story at the end of her life, marked by the great historical events of the twentieth century.
Born in 1938, Niki, the daughter of th- Author: Chomenidis, Christos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1635421977
- Language: English
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The Snow Princess
$8.95 Read moreA BEAUTIFUL RETELLING OF THE CLASSIC RUSSIAN FOLKTALE WITH LAVISH FULL-COLOR OIL PAINTINGS When the Snow Princess sets off to see the world, Father Frost and Mother Spring warn her never to fall in lo… [more below]
- Series: The Ruth Sanderson Collection
- Author: Sanderson, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1566560985
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles
$19.95 Read moreThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain’s journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts… [more below]
- Series: Notebook
- Author: de Vito, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1579129978
- Language: English
