Classics / Criticism
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartThis authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Sidney’s poetry and prose–all the major writing, complemented by letters and elegies–that reveals the essence of his work and think… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sidney, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538417
- Language: English
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For the Time Being
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a “beautifully written and delightfully strange” (Daily… [more below]
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0375703470
- Language: English
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Little Women
$11.00 Read moreThis American classic is as fresh and meaningful today as it was when it was first written in the mid-nineteenth century. Largely based on the author’s own childhood, Little Women is a timeless tale o… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0486828069
- Language: English
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Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other ’80s Perils
$24.95 Read moreAt the intersection of 1980s pop culture, the Cold War, and the trials of coming of age sits Melt with Me. Paul Crenshaw takes up a range of topics from Star Wars to video games, Choose Your Own Adven… [more below]
- Author: Crenshaw, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258824
- Language: English
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Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction
$19.95 Read moreAt a time when the American publishing industry increasingly perceives fiction lovers as rather delicate creatures–easily offended, allergic to ambiguity, afraid to venture outside their comfort zone
- Author: Schweizer, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988717300
- Language: English
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A Century of Queer Korean Fiction
$40.00 Add to cartSelections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature
Following decades of LGBTQ+ activism, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Many openly gay
- Series: MLA Texts and Translations
- Author: Perry, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: December 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1603296271
- Language: English
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The War Nerd Iliad
$22.95 Read moreWe recognize the names: Achilles, Odysseus, Zeus, and Apollo. We’re taught that The Iliad is a foundational text of civilization. But who has really read the text? Until now, The Iliad was hijacked by
- Author: Dolan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1627310509
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$9.99 Read moreIntroduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent.
Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated wor
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260436
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories
$9.99 Read moreWith a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tal
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: de Maupassant, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 05 1997
- ISBN10: 1853261890
- Language: English
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The Best of James Joyce 4 Volume Set
$29.99 Read moreWordsworth Classics’ new ‘Best of’ series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price.
James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet who is regarded as
- Series: Best of
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1856
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1848702124
- Language: English
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Mrs. Dalloway
$27.00 Read moreA collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s engulfing portrait of one day in a woman’s life, featuring a foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0143136356
- Language: English
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
$17.00 Read moreSearching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.
Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the Hou- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450917
- Language: English
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Astra Magazine, Ecstasy: Issue One
$19.00 Read moreAstra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writer… [more below]
- Author: Spiegelman, Nadja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1662619006
- Language: English
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The Bad Immigrant
$16.95 Add to cartAn account of an immigrant family’s struggle and the lessons learned about diversity from the Wole Soyinka prize-winning author of Everything Good Will Come
Writing at the height of her powers, The Ba- Author: Atta, Sefi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718449
- Language: English
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Adam Bede
$16.00 Add to cart- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0140436642
- Language: English
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Studies in Classic American Literature
$17.00 Read more“Nobody ever read [the great old books] like Lawrence did–as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. . . . You will be jolted awake.” –A. O. Scott, The New York Times
A Penguin Classic Lawrence asserte- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140183779
- Language: English
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Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary
$22.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of its kind, a brand new illustrated alphabetical dictionary of all the words and meanings students of Shakespeare need to know. Every word h… [more below]
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0192737503
- Language: English
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The Classic Fairy Tales
$23.99 Add to cartThis volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Includin… [more below]
- Author: Opie, Iona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 13 1980
- ISBN10: 0195202198
- Language: English
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Phaedrus
$10.95 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554021
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
$11.00 Read moreIntroduction by A. S. Byatt
Illustrations by John Tenniel
Includes commissioned endnotes
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Ali- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375761381
- Language: English
