Literature
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 147678521X
- Language: English
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Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together
$27.99 Read moreWelcome to Our Book of Awesome, a celebration of the small joys that bring us together.
In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around- Author: Pasricha, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164506
- Language: English
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A Christmas Carol
$20.00 Read moreOne of six beloved Christmas classics in collectible hardcover editions
First published on December 19, 1843, A Christmas Carol was an instant classic: Londoners thronged to hear Dickens read it in pe- Series: Penguin Christmas Classics #1
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0143122495
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York—now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm Tb匤 for th… [more below]
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 1998
- ISBN10: 0684842378
- Language: English
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On Love
$19.99 Add to cartA companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0062420739
- Language: English
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The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
$82.00 Add to cart“The perfect companion to enjoy the most profound stories of the human condition that Shakespeare has given us and that I have had the privilege to perform, from Othello to King Lear.”–James Earl Jon… [more below]
- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1824
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0141000589
- Language: English
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Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, 1925-1928
$35.00 Add to cartThis fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf’s essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit, and original intelligence…. [more below]
- Series: Essays of Virginia Woolf
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0156035227
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
$5.95 Add to cartYoung and imaginative Alice follows a hasty rabbit underground and comes face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all literature….
NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0451532007
- Language: English
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
$6.99 Add to cart“Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war.”–Time
From the icy blast of reveille through the s- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: July 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0553247778
- Language: English
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Invitation to a Beheading
$17.00 Add to cartLike Kafka’s The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world.
In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading fo- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: September 19 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725318
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$18.99 Add to cart“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry
In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603613
- Language: English
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Arguably: Essays
$22.99 Add to cart“Hitchens is an opportunity to be delighted or maddened–possibly both–but in any case, not to be missed…” –The New York Times
A stylish new paperback edition of ARGUABLY, a greatest hits collecti- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1455502782
- Language: English
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In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
$16.95 Add to cartBefore embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew … [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1631493531
- Language: English
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My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
$17.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin’ and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0848757467
- Language: English
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To the Lighthouse (Annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition
$18.99 Add to cartThe annotated, authorized edition of one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century with commentary by leading Virginia Woolf scholar Mark Hussey.
From the seemingly trivial postponeme
- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0156030470
- Language: English
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The Phantom of the Opera
$14.99 Read moreThe Phantom of the Opera is perhaps best known for its many stage and screen adaptations, but nothing beats the Gothic tension and haunting horror of Gaston Leroux’s original text.
Part of the Macmill- Author: LeRoux, Gaston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 150982667X
- Language: English
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Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity
$19.95 Add to cartWhat happens when beauty intersects with horror? In her newest nonfiction collection, Jehanne Dubrow interrogates the ethical questions that arise when we aestheticize atrocity. The daughter of US dip… [more below]
- Author: Dubrow, Jehanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 147
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365264
- Language: English
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
$18.00 Add to cartFor the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather’s birth, and for the first time in Penguin Classics, her quietly beautiful novel of one man’s life as he encounters the harsh landscape of the New Mexico dese… [more below]
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137697
- Language: English
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By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the New York Times Book Review
$20.00 Add to cartSixty-five of the world’s leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them
Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see whic
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 125007469X
- Language: English
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Advanced Gunsmithing: A Manual of Instruction in the Manufacture, Alteration, and Repair of Firearms (75th Anniversary Edition)
$24.99 Add to cartA classic on the practice of gunsmithing, covering everything from rifling tools and sights to pistols and soldering. Vickery’s clear and precise instruction covers essentials and techniques for both … [more below]
- Author: Vickery, W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 162914438X
- Language: English
