Literature
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To Kill a Mockingbird: An Instructional Guide for Literature
$12.99 Read moreIntroduce students to this classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by encouraging them to explore social issues within the story and make connections to current and historical events. To Kill a Mockingbi… [more below]
- Series: Great Works: Instructional Guides for Literature
- Author: Kemp, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1425889999
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$8.00 Read more“The most impressive satirist of his day.” — Time Magazine
With devastating satiric wit, this book examines the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term “conspicuous consumption” (coined by Veblen
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280624
- Language: English
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
$26.99 Read moreThe most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated. Made up of annals written in the monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon, and Worcester, … [more below]
- Series: Monks of the Monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterbor
- Author: Swanton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1842120034
- Language: English
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The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
$50.00 Read moreA “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years
- Author: New York Times
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593234618
- Language: English
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The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West
$24.00 Add to cartThe Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bu… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265622
- Language: English
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
$14.00 Add to cartVerne’s timeless underwater adventure story, now available in a new translation as a Penguin Classics black spine.
In this thrilling adventure tale by the father of science fiction, three men embark- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 141394935
- Language: English
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Blue Desert
$19.95 Add to cartIn the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged? In Blue Des… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 179
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0816510814
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
$20.00 Add to cartIn this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0805008209
- Language: English
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas
$24.99 Read moreOver the centuries, Northern mythology has exerted much influence on Western customs, language, and literature. Its principal theme of the perpetual struggle of the beneficent forces of nature against… [more below]
- Author: Guerber, H. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 21 1992
- ISBN10: 0486273482
- Language: English
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The Wild Swans at Coole: A Facsimile Edition
$18.00 Add to cartA stunning facsimile of the 1919 first edition of William Butler Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole: an elegant volume showcasing these poems as they would have first been read and a complement to facsim… [more below]
- Series: Yeats Facsimile Edition
- Author: Yeats, William Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 150110604X
- Language: English
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Hymns to the Night (Revised)
$6.50 Read moreThis bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins’ best-selling translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Friedrich von Hardenberg’s classic romantic long poem, and the substantially diffe
- Author: Higgins, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 55
- Publish Date: September 01, 1988
- ISBN10: 0914232908
- Language: English
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The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe
$36.00 Add to cartDavid Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to castastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated … [more below]
- Author: Roskies, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0827604149
- Language: English
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Hermetic Definition: Poetry
$15.95 Add to cartHD, Hermetic Definition. Late poems from H.D. embracing the passion of an elderly life
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0811204537
- Language: English
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Friends of Thunder: Folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees
$21.95 Add to cartThe Cherokee husband-and-wife team who recorded and translated these folktales in 1961 helped to preserve the lore of seventeen elder Oklahoma Cherokees. This volume includes a wide variety of folklor… [more below]
- Author: Kilpatrick, Jack F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0806127228
- Language: English
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Requiem for a Nun
$18.00 Add to cartThis sequel to Faulkner’s most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0307946800
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Plassans
$14.95 Add to cart‘Abbe Faujas has arrived!’
The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Fran?is Mouret in particular. Faujas and his- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199664781
- Language: English
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Fools Crow
$18.95 Add to cartFrank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social… [more below]
- Author: Mails, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: August 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803281749
- Language: English
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
$9.00 Read moreIn an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time.
Having witnessed firsthand… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0486290360
- Language: English
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The History of the Kings of Britain
$19.00 Add to cartCompleted in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portrayin… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27 1977
- ISBN10: 0140441700
- Language: English
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The Enlightened Mind
$17.99 Add to cartA magnificent compilation of sacred writings from all traditions and the perfect companion to Stephen Mitchell’s poetry collection, The Enlightened Heart, and the bestselling Tao Te Ching
A collection
- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0060923202
- Language: English
