Classics / Criticism
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Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare
$38.00 Add to cartFrom one of the twentieth century’s most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories.
Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it ha
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Maugham, W. Somerset
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: July 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400042534
- Language: English
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Cuerpo, El
$31.95 Read moreThe body is the central building of the dazzling Blinder trilogy. An overwhelming, hallucinatory, kaleidoscopic and intellectually subversive book that marks a before and after in the history of Europ… [more below]
- Author: Cartarescu, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 841755355X
- Language: Spanish
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Three Men in a Boat
$14.99 Read moreThree Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics wit- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1529024013
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$17.99 Read moreIn one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Charles Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successf
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1509825398
- 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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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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Leavetakings: Essays
$20.95 Add to cartLeavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About he… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Literary
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1602234248
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-26 (Loa #353)
$35.00 Read moreLibrary of America’s authoritative Fitzgerald edition continues with his greatest masterpiece and best story collection of stories in newly edited texts
This long-awaited second volume of Library of A- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 756
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537148
- Language: English
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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
$24.00 Read moreA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in p- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450445
- 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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Imperium in Imperio
$12.99 Read moreA chilling tale of living dystopia in the Jim Crow era and a utopian shadow state that exposes the conflict between loyalty, morality and the forces of poverty, racism and supremacism.
Written in 1899- Series: Foundations of Black Science Fiction
- Author: E. Griggs, Sutton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1839648848
- Language: English
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The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate
$16.95 Read moreNineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives–including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleem… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220307
- Language: English
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Sanditon: & Other Stories
$7.99 Read moreHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
‘Those who tell their own story, you know, must be listened to with caution.’
When young Charlotte Heywood arrives in t
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0008516138
- Language: English
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El Valle del Miedo
$15.95 Read moreEl talento deductivo del inquilino más famoso del número 221B de Baker Street brilla más que nunca a la hora de enfrentarse a su antagonista el profesor Moriarty y descubrir al culpable de un asesi… [more below]
- Series: Clásicos Ilustrados
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 841839532X
- Language: Spanish
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Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
$22.00 Add to cartThis book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising actio… [more below]
- Author: Lennon, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736494651
- Language: English
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States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
$20.00 Read moreStates of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.
As one of the most discussed b- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0226815536
- Language: English
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What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
$75.00 Read moreOn the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land‘s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Lan- Author: Rasula, Jed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 069122577X
- Language: English
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
$22.00 Read moreA bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS … [more below]- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593134656
- Language: English
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Fasti
$11.95 Add to cart“Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.”
Ovid’s poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day-by-day a… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0192824112
- Language: English
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Under the Greenwood Tree
$11.95 Add to cart“Miss Fancy Day; as neat a little figure of fun as ever I see, and just husband-high.”
One of the most popular of Hardy’s novels, Under the Greenwood Tree is a delightful and humorous depiction of lif- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0199697205
- Language: English
