Literature
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To Bid or Not to Bid (Revised)
$21.95 Add to cartTo bid or not to bid — the perennial dilemma in competitive auctions. The easy answer to the question lies in the correct use of the Law of Total Tricks. The LAW has been part of bridge literature si
- Author: Cohen, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1894154487
- Language: English
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Christianity and Culture: Essays
$18.99 Add to cartTwo long essays: “The Idea of a Christian Society” on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and “Notes towards the Definition of Culture” on culture, i… [more below]
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0156177358
- Language: English
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Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems
Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reach
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 006265652X
- Language: English
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The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
$34.00 Add to cartThe Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called ‘courtly love’ and the allegorical method within which it develope… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: November 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1107659434
- Language: English
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Maldoror: (Les Chants de Maldoror)
$18.95 Read moreThe macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative pros
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Lautreamont, Conte De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811200825
- Language: English
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Classical Gods and Heroes
$18.99 Add to cartAll the wonder, terror, and delight of Greek mythology springs forth from the pages of this unique and much-needed anthology.
Rhonda Hendricks has not only selected from the works of the ancient autho
- Author: Hendricks, Rhoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0688052797
- Language: English
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The Portable Dante
$24.00 Add to cartThe famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks–The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova–in one volume
A Penguin Classic As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian f- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437549
- Language: English
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Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Gustave Doré
$21.95 Add to cartA mysterious talking raven pays a visit to a man who is distraught from the loss of his lover. The man, aching over the death of his dear Lenore, is upset and distressed by the bird who repeats one wo
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1593623143
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
$22.99 Add to cartRecent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is “the most influential author of the century,” and The Lord of the Rings is “the book of the century.” In support of these claims, the pro… [more below]
- Author: Shippey, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0618257594
- Language: English
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Pragmatism
$8.99 Read moreA profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce’s theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 02, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486282708
- Language: English
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J.B.: A Play in Verse: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
$18.99 Add to cartJ. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God … [more below]
- Author: MacLeish, Archibald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0395083532
- Language: English
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Manga Classics Dracula
$19.99 Add to cartAn ancient evil lurks in the dark heart of Transylvania – but it won’t lurk there forever. Now Count Dracula’s immortal eyes look towards London, a new land full of opportunity and unsuspecting victim… [more below]
- Series: Manga Classics
- Author: Stoker, Bram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1947808060
- Language: English
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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
$19.95 Add to cartAt issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as “part of the effort to define a female consciousn… [more below]
- Author: Rich, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312852
- Language: English
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Goethe’s Faust
$16.00 Add to cartThe best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann’s translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm a… [more below]
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 1962
- ISBN10: 0385031149
- Language: English
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$31.18 Read moreThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 520375858
- Language: English
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The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
$22.95 Add to cartThe first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories–from myths and fairy tales to jokes
Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex,- Author: Hansen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0691195927
- Language: English
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75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know: The Fascinating Stories Behind Great Works of Art, Literature, Music and Film
$24.99 Add to cartLet Your Faith Be Moved by the Masterpieces
Art becomes a masterpiece when it stands the test of time and challenges its viewers to see the world from a new perspective. The vast legacy of human expres
- Author: Glaspey, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0802420877
- Language: English
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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Leucippe and Clitophon
$13.95 Add to cartAchilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqu? of the five “Greek novels” of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tatius, Achilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555478
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$14.00 Add to cartBurke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack o… [more below]
- Series: English Library
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432043
- Language: English
