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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In
$29.95 Add to cartA new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution.
Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, an- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582792
- Language: English
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Anthony Trollope: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Anthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English language. His strongly drawn characters and skilful plots are compelling, while- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Birch, Dinah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192845624
- Language: English
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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
$16.95 Add to cart- Author: Bossiere, Zoë
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1941628230
- Language: English
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A Bestiary
$16.00 Add to cartLiterary Nonfiction. Essays. Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum.
Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, a… [more below]
- Author: Hoang, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0996316744
- Language: English
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Tales of the Jazz Age
$11.95 Read more‘I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.’
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald’s second collection of short stories, and it conta- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856083
- Language: English
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The French Revolution
$18.95 Read moreThomas Carlyle’s history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendemaire. Both in its form and content, the… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 019881559X
- Language: English
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Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world. Language, meaning, and culture are all- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Belsey, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0198859961
- Language: English
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The Well of Loneliness
$12.99 Read more‘If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.’
The Well of Loneliness is among the most famous banned books in history. A pioneering work of literature,- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hall, Radclyffe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0192894455
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and T- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Townend, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 26 2024
- ISBN10: 019288204X
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$7.99 Add to cart‘No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.’
Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about d- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 019884106X
- Language: English
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The Bible Reexamined: Eve Is a Hero, Mary Is Not a Virgin, Jesus Is Not the Way
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Tremba, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218550936
- Language: English
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Rosamond Lehmann in Vegas
$20.00 Add to cartIn this new anthology of his columns for The Believer, Nick Hornby delves into the latest escapades from his reading life. Spanning the magazine’s Las Vegas era, these consistently hilarious dispatche… [more below]
- Author: Hornby, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1952119987
- Language: English
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The Mir? Worm and the Mysteries of Writing
$20.00 Add to cartOne of America’s most honored and respected essayists, Sven Birkerts, returns with a riveting new collection. In The Mir? Worm and the Mysteries of Writing, Birkerts reflects on fundamental questions
- Author: Birkerts, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990405004
- Language: English
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Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679724648
- Language: English
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The Jungle Books
$8.94 Add to cartThe Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the “Mowgli” series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling’s phil… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536457
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
$27.00 Add to cart- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600078
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$11.95 Add to cart‘To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small medieval castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let For the month of April, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.’
Four very different wome- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198859090
- Language: English
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Well-Kept Ruins
$21.00 Read moreA genre-defying book from one of France’s most well-known philosopher-writers.
In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabr?k. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westp- Series: French List
- Author: Cixous, Hélène
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090596
- Language: English
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
$16.00 Read moreA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of- Author: Row, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978320
- Language: English
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The Thief and the Dogs
$16.00 Read moreNaguib Mahfouz’s haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in priso
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0385264623
- Language: English
