Books & Reading
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Educated Imagination
$15.95 Add to cart“What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?” Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous sty
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0887845983
- Language: English
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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$27.99 Read moreLearn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a si- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1465429883
- Language: English
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The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of Eromanga
$19.99 Add to cartWhile manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium’s international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of … [more below]
- Author: Rito, Kimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1634422538
- Language: English
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Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Robert Frost’s road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections.
Make sure you- Author: Feder, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1683694740
- Language: English
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ABC of Reading
$15.95 Read moreThis important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly s… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1186
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218937
- Language: English
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Of Solids and Surds: Notes for No? Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, MIA Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
$18.00 Read moreIn the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction
“Delany’s prismatic output is among the most sign- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0300250401
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the Vermont Book Award
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a fin
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221362
- Language: English
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
$16.95 Read moreWhat to read next is every book lover’s greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterate… [more below]
- Author: Pearl, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 1570613818
- Language: English
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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints
$24.99 Read moreChristianity Today 2023 Award of Merit (Culture & the Arts)
Midwest Book Review 2023 Silver Book Award (Nonfiction – Religion/Philosophy)How do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year’s r… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jessica Hooten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1587435241
- Language: English
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One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art
$26.95 Read moreA selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by auth
- Author: Cirino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927130
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Crit- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222040
- Language: English
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Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
$20.00 Read moreTerry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated fro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270445
- Language: English
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El Fuego de la Imaginación: Libros, Escenarios, Pantallas Y Museos. Obra Periodí Stica 1 / The Fire of Imagination. Journalistic Works 1
$24.95 Read moreLA CULTURA, PROTAGONISTA DEL PRIMER VOLUMEN DE LA OBRA PERIODÍSTICA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
«No hay cultura genuina sin pluralidad de ideas y sin crítica
Durante más- Series: Obra Periodística
- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 6073823584
- Language: Spanish
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
$19.95 Read more“For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing on writing from the course of her career, this bo… [more below]
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765097
- Language: English
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On Reading
$29.95 Read moreAndr Kert sz (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium’s history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works…. [more below]
- Author: Kertész, André
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393066568
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Add to cartThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction – From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: “This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Ho… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345807170
- Language: English
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Annotation
$15.95 Read moreAn introduction to annotation as a genre–a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication–and its significance in scholarship and everyday life.
Annotation–the addition of a note to a t- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kalir, Remi H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0262539926
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
$28.99 Read moreThe classic guide, now available in a hardcover edition–a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make yo
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0062696858
- Language: English
