Literature
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The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 international bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon comes an education in the art of articulation, from the King James Bible to Katy Perry…
From classic poetry to pop… [more below]- Author: Forsyth, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 042527618X
- Language: English
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The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker
$16.95 Add to cartFrom 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker‘s “Talk of the Town” department under the pen name “The Long-Winded Lady.” Her unforgettable sketches–prose snapshots of life in small restau… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Maeve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027119
- Language: English
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The Time Machine/The Invisible Man
$7.95 Add to cartTogether in one indispensable volume, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction.
The Time Machine conveys- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530705
- Language: English
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
$22.00 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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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
$19.00 Add to cartThe first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago.
In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treas- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0451228146
- Language: English
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Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
$60.00 Add to cartFrom ancient Egypt to today, enjoy a sweeping survey of world history through its most memorable words in this completely revised and updated nineteenth edition.
More than 150 years after its initial- Author: Bartlett, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1504
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0316375306
- Language: English
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Emma (Jane Austen Collection)
$34.99 Add to cartJane Austen’s Emma is now available in an exclusive collector’s edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, ideal for fiction lovers and book
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1400339669
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: A Book-To-Table Classic
$27.00 Add to cartPuffin Plated: A Book-to-Table Reading Experience
A deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Jane Austen classic featuring a selection of recipes for tea-time treats by the one and only Mar… [more below]- Series: Puffin Plated
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0451479912
- Language: English
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Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty
$32.00 Add to cartOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410775
- Language: English
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Little Weirds
$29.00 Add to cartOne of Vanity Fair’s Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate’s wild imagination in this “magical” (Mindy Kaling), “delicious” (Amy Sedaris), and “poignant” (John Mulaney) New York Times bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Slate, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0316485349
- Language: English
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River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
$18.00 Read more“Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work.”– from the Foreword by Fran?ise Verg?.
What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonial
- Author: Abbas, Nuzhat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 177525674X
- Language: English
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Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
$18.95 Add to cartIt’s time to diversify your reading list.
This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen kn- Series: Bibliophile
- Author: Harper, Jamise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1797211919
- Language: English
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Our Mutual Friend
$13.00 Add to cartCharles Dickens’s last complete novel and a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society
Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance – Old Harmon’s profitable dust heaps – and its legatee- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140434976
- Language: English
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The Tale of Genji
$16.95 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Shikibu, Murasaki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 16 1990
- ISBN10: 0679729534
- Language: English
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$8.99 Add to cartSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN‘S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN‘S JACK O’CONNELL
Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence’s last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth cen- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553212621
- Language: English
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The Secret Garden
$12.99 Add to cartLittle treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury … [more below]
- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Hodgson Burnett, Frances Eliza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 183964172X
- Language: English
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The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Divine Design in “The Lord of the Rings”
$29.99 Read moreJ. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has long been acknowledged as the gold standard for fantasy fiction, and the recent Oscar-winning movie trilogy has brought forth a whole new generation of fans. M… [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Fleming
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 373
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802824978
- Language: English
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The Elements of Style
$5.99 Read moreMaster the art of concise and powerful writing with The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. This timeless guide offers indispensable advice on grammar, punctuation, and style. A must-have for wri
- Author: Strunk, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 8194898862
- Language: English
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Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
$39.95 Read moreTales of Dionysus is the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. By any standard, the Dionysiaca
- Author: Levitan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0472038966
- Language: English
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
$8.99 Read moreThe USS Abraham Lincoln sets forth on an expedition in search of a monstrous sea creature creating havoc in the seas, with the brilliant Professor Aronnax, his helper Conseil and the harpoonist Ned o
- Series: Illustrated Classics
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 25 2020
- ISBN10: 9389717922
- Language: English
