Literature
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
$25.99 Read moreA selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri
T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century l
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 006297811X
- Language: English
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A Study in Scarlet & the Sign of the Four (Collector’s Edition)
$15.99 Read more‘Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes’ – The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the ma
- Series: Wordsworth Collector’s Editions
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1840228091
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights
$7.99 Add to cartIntroduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a found
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Bront?, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260010
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$18.00 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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The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; And Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$26.00 Read moreThe most cherished novels from England’s talented sisters, all in one gorgeously packaged volume
The Bront family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte’s Jane Eyre a- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Bront?, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105833
- Language: English
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A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing
$20.00 Read moreAs Kurt Vonnegut, Indiana’s most famous writer, once remarked, “Wherever you go, there is always a Hoosier doing something important there.”
A Flame Called Indiana features 65 writers of fiction, nonfi
- Author: Case, Doug Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0253066808
- Language: English
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The Black Spider
$15.95 Read moreAn NYRB Classics Original
It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of th- Author: Gotthelf, Jeremias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1590176685
- Language: English
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Prayers Before the Eucharist
$16.95 Read moreWhen thinking of Saint John Henry Newman, many associations come to mind: scholar, writer, intellectual. But rarely do we associate “mystic” with this new saint.
And yet, his faith was not merely an- Author: Newman, John Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1505116422
- Language: English
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Beowulf: A Verse Translation
$13.00 Read more“Alexander’s translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful [and] …communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fi… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449310
- Language: English
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The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$25.00 Add to cartLearn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple a… [more below]- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1465429875
- Language: English
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Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories
$9.99 Read moreThis is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter’s night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as ‘real’ a
- Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
- Author: Collings, Rex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 05 2008
- ISBN10: 184022066X
- Language: English
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Georgette Heyer’s Regency World
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period
“Detailed, informative, impressively researched. A Heyer lover writing for Heyer fans.” —Times Lite
- Author: Kloester, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1402241364
- Language: English
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Stories and Texts for Nothing
$18.00 Read moreThis volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett… [more below]
- Series: Beckett, Samuel
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150624
- Language: English
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The Art of the Poetic Line
$15.00 Read moreThe Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impa
- Series: Art of
- Author: Longenbach, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974880
- Language: English
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Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer
$9.99 Read moreHorrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They
- Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
- Author: Lynch, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05 2008
- ISBN10: 1840220775
- Language: English
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Fifth Business
$17.00 Read moreThe first book in Robertson Davies’s acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchend- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Davies, Robertson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 141186151
- 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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The Master Key
$14.95 Read moreA new edition of this prizewinning classic mystery from one of Japan’s best-loved crime writers
A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all… The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo c- Series: Pushkin Vertigo
- Author: Togawa, Masako
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1782277722
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$6.95 Add to cartIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to th… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486422453
- Language: English
