Books & Reading
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Great Books
$29.99 Add to cartTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the litera… [more below]
- Author: Denby, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 25 1997
- ISBN10: 0684835339
- Language: English
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Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
$20.99 Add to cartA funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television’s favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY’s hit series Paw
- Author: Romney, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062412329
- Language: English
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The Book of Lists: Horror: An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson
$15.99 Add to cartThe phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating infobits about simply everything Now the latest edition
- Author: Wallace, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0061537268
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
$21.00 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 1990
- ISBN10: 0679730044
- Language: English
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
$19.99 Add to cartIs a book the same book–or a reader the same reader–the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
The editor of Reread- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530548
- Language: English
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
$15.99 Add to cart“Nina Sankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature–to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves.” –Thrity Umrigar, author of The Sp
- Author: Sankovitch, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0061999857
- Language: English
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The Book
$19.95 Read moreThe book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.
What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to ent
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Borsuk, Amaranth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535416
- Language: English
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Lectures on Russian Literature
$18.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on… [more below]
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027763
- Language: English
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Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
$20.00 Add to cartNewly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century–including many texts never previously in print–by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally b… [more below]
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593133196
- Language: English
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Ear Training: Literary Essays
$29.95 Add to cart“These pieces reflect Pritchard’s abiding joy in literature, especially poetry … Included here are insightful appreciations of Anthony Trollope, Anthony Powell, and a sublime reading of Philip Larki… [more below]
- Author: Pritchard, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881826
- Language: English
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Feel Free: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Sinc- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 014311025X
- Language: English
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
$35.00 Add to cartThe Road to Middle-earth, Tom Shippey’s classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien’s professio
- Author: Shippey, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0544311817
- Language: English
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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
$29.17 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection, Martin Amis, “one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME), takes on James Joyce and Elvis Pres… [more below]
- Author: Amis, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727167
- Language: English
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On Browsing
$13.95 Read moreNominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award
A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon–and gaining new appreciation–amidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops.
Written during
- Series: Field Notes #5
- Author: Guriel, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 177196510X
- Language: English
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A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike
A Little Book on Form brillia
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0062332430
- Language: English
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The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King
$36.00 Add to cartThe myriad worlds and universes King has created are, in reality, one world, one universe. Here is the guide to that universe.
The Complete Stephen King Universe is the only definitive reference work- Author: Golden, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0312324901
- Language: English
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Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
$16.95 Read moreSeries Summary
The new What Every Catholic Should Know series is intended for the average faithful Catholic who wants to know more about Catholic faith and culture. The authors in this series take a pa
- Series: What Every Catholic Should Know
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1733522123
- Language: English
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Stifled Laughter: One Woman’s Story about Fighting Censorship
$17.95 Read morePulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnson’s extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics from Florida classrooms. Part memoir,… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1682753492
- Language: English
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Why Read the Classics?
$15.99 Add to cartA posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino’s invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146379
- Language: English
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To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
$19.00 Add to cartA long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate–celebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia University, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.
Distinguish- Author: Lopate, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1451696329
- Language: English
