Literature
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A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
$15.95 Add to cartThe grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a tra… [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0811234479
- Language: English
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Superheroes!: The History of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon from Ant-Man to Zorro
$26.95 Read moreSuperheroes! is the ultimate reference book about the men and women in tights who fight for what’s right and the comic book phenomenon that conquered the world.
From their origins in stories created b
- Author: Solomon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064517
- Language: English
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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
$22.00 Add to cartThe Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as the freest spirit tht has yet existed, wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned … [more below]
- Author: De Sade, Marquis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 799
- Publish Date: January 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130127
- Language: English
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The Bloater
$15.95 Read moreWhy do the only men I know carry wet umbrellas and say “Umm?” I’m being starved alive. Quick: the first bookshop for a copy of the Kama-Sutra.
Min works at the BBC as a sound engineer, and in theory sh
- Author: Tonks, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0811234568
- Language: English
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Voyager: Constellations of Memory
$15.00 Read moreA startling book-length essay, at once grand and intimate, from National Book Award finalist Nona Fern?dez.
Voyager begins with Nona Fern?dez accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an e- Author: Fernández, Nona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452170
- Language: English
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On Bts: Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerity
$12.95 Read moreA love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from t
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Cruz, Lenika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638930643
- Language: English
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Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems about Climate Change
$24.99 Read moreA Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker
In this poignant, timely collection, the renowned Booker Prize-winning author evokes the magic of nature and the urgency of protecting our environment. Twenty tho- Author: Okri, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423368
- Language: English
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The Fire Next Time
$22.00 Add to cartAt once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the C… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0679601511
- Language: English
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Agnes Grey
$9.94 Add to cartAnne Bront?’s first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has paral… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bront?, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199296987
- Language: English
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Una Historia de España / A History of Spain
$19.95 Read morePor primera vez un volumen re ne la historia de Espa a escrita por Arturo P rez-Reverte durante m s de cuatro a os en su columna «Patente de corso del XL Semanal.
Un relato ameno, personal, a r
- Author: Perez-Reverte, Arturo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 8420438170
- Language: Spanish
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-Do-Wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction
$35.00 Read moreAn account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre
“When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing car- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300251157
- Language: English
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The Swiss Family Robinson
$7.99 Add to cartThe Swiss Family Robinson is an unforgettable adventure novel that will transport readers to a remote island where a resilient family fights for survival. Follow the Robinson family as they face the
- Author: Wyss, Johann David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 9389178398
- Language: English
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The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts
$29.95 Read morePresented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century’s most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creati
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0674271017
- Language: English
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This Is Amiko, Do You Copy?
$14.95 Read moreA surprising and moving novella about a misunderstood neurodivergent girl from one of Japan’s most acclaimed young writers, the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt
A sensitive and tender depiction- Series: Japanese Novellas
- Author: Imamura, Natsuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1782279792
- Language: English
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History’s Angel
$27.99 Read moreFrom the Man Asian Literary Prize-longlisted author, the story of a middle-aged man in contemporary India discovering that neither his life nor his country are as stable as he thought.
Alif is a middl- Author: Hasan, Anjum
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730400
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter
$9.99 Add to cartIntroduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rig
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260290
- Language: English
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Las Uvas de la IRA: (Spanish Language Edition of the Grapes of Wrath) = Grapes of Wrath
$18.00 Add to cartLas uvas de la ira es un hito en la literatura norteamericana que explora el conflicto entre ricos y pobres, analiza la reacci?n feroz de un hombre contra la injusticia y el estoicismo de una mujer ig… [more below]
- Series: Critical Library, Viking
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002534
- Language: Spanish
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Bouvard and Pecuchet
$17.95 Read moreAlthough unfinished during his lifetime, Bouvard and P?uchet is now considered one of Flaubert’s greatest masterpieces.
In Flaubert’s own words, the novel is “a kind of encyclopedia made into farce .
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 30 2005
- ISBN10: 1564783936
- Language: English
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Voices from the Rust Belt
$16.00 Read more“Timely . . . the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”–Booklist
The ess- Author: Trubek, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250162971
- Language: English
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Notes from Underground & Other Stories
$9.99 Add to cartWith an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. Many
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1840225777
- Language: English
