Literature
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
$20.00 Add to cartA Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann’s first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.
Buddenbrooks, first published in- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0679752609
- Language: English
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
$6.95 Read moreMark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic.
Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arth- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 361
- Publish Date: November 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0451529588
- Language: English
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Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
$20.00 Read moreRalph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his re… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 1400043166
- Language: English
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings
$32.00 Add to cartA collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer’s most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick.
A Penguin Vitae Edition Wonderfully sardonic and slyly- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134795
- Language: English
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
$7.99 Read moreHarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
‘My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen,
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0008542120
- Language: English
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The Nine Cloud Dream
$17.00 Add to cartKorea’s most prized literary masterpiece: a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human life–presented in a vivid new translation by PEN/Hemingway finalist Heinz Insu Fenkl
*Named one of the- Author: Man-Jung, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0143131273
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
$55.00 Add to cartThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had–in the words of
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0674057929
- Language: English
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The Villain’s Dance
$16.95 Read moreFull of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain’s Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.
Zaire. Late 90’s. Mobutu’s thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, th
- Author: Mwanza Mujila, Fiston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1646051270
- Language: English
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
$27.95 Read moreAn indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded
Samuel R. Delany’s The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 081956883X
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$30.00 Read moreAn award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys–and challenges–of the genre
In Don’t Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduc… [more below]- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0465094503
- Language: English
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
$14.99 Add to cartA comical futurist fantasy, first published in 1904, about a tradition-loving suburban London community of the 1980s at war with its modernizing neighbors. Chesterton’s splendid storytelling gifts and… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 1991
- ISBN10: 048626551X
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$8.99 Read moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students an… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 676
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 074348763X
- Language: English
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The Woman in White
$6.95 Read moreWilkie Collins’ classic tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity
ONE OF TIME‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME “There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road–the- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 01 1985
- ISBN10: 055321263X
- Language: English
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Emma
$7.99 Add to cartWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ‘heroine whom no one but myself will much like’, but Emma is irresistible. ‘H
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260282
- Language: English
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A Fable
$18.00 Read moreThis novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0307946770
- Language: English
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The Beauty of Light: An Interview
$17.95 Read moreA lively and spontaneous interview with Etel Adnan about her absolute belief in the beauty of the world and the beauty of art.
In these interviews with journalist and editor Laure Adler, conducted in … [more below]
- Author: Adnan, Etel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622110
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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In Mad Love and War
$16.95 Read moreSacred and secular poems of the Creek Tribe.
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1990)
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1991)
2019 United States Poet LaureateJoy H
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 79
- Publish Date: May 21 1990
- ISBN10: 081951182X
- Language: English
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
$16.99 Add to cartPart of the Gibbs Smith Women’s Voices series: A collection of literary voices written by, and for, extraordinary women–to encourage, challenge, and inspire.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) champ
- Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1423652134
- Language: English
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The Complete Brontë Collection
$39.99 Read moreThe perfect gift for any Bront Sisters lover for only 19.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Bront Sisters’ best and much-loved works. Beautifu… [more below]
- Series: Wordsworth Box Sets
- Author: Brontë, Anne
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 2608
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1840227907
- Language: English
