Classics / Criticism
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On the Natural History of Destruction
$21.00 Add to cartDuring World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died–a figure twice that of all America… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0375756574
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
$22.00 Read moreCompiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968263
- Language: English
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Una Habitación Propia
$7.95 Read moreLa contribución de una de las mejores narradoras del siglo XX al feminismo.
En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier
- Author: Virginia, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 607074392X
- Language: Spanish
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The Torrents of Spring
$6.00 Read more“The Torrents of Spring reveals Mr. Hemingway’s gift for high-spirited nonsense. Whatever its effect on literary foibles, it contributes to that thoughtful gayety that true wit should inspire.” —The … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851435
- Language: English
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Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
$37.95 Read moreSome comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious w… [more below]
- Author: Whitted, Qiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1978825013
- Language: English
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Se Está Haciendo Tarde (Final En La Laguna) / It’s Getting Late (End in the Lagoon)
$15.95 Read more«La buena literatura perturba, y perdura, como lo prueba esta enorme novela, so?ada y escrita entre las paredes de una celda, y que ahora est? por cumplir 50 a?os. –Fernanda Melchor
Escrita c- Author: AgustÃn, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 6073820763
- Language: Spanish
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Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word
$14.99 Add to cartGet on Stage and Perfect Your Performance
Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, “I could do this,” but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic–or worse, you climbed up on stage and stru
- Series: Poetry Speaks Experience
- Author: Smith, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1402218990
- Language: English
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
$42.00 Read moreIn fin-de-si cle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a strikin… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Hustvedt, Asti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1096
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890951072
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$9.99 Read moreIntroduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it th
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260002
- Language: English
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Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception
$29.95 Read moreAn infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East.
In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal heat of the de- Author: Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1733628169
- Language: English
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Astra Magazine, Filth: Issue Two
$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: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1662619014
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$11.95 Add to cartCousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553947
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$9.95 Add to cartOne of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0198702647
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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The Wanting Seed
$16.99 Read moreTristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalist… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback Fiction
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 393315088
- Language: English
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The Quarter: Stories
$14.95 Read moreMeet the people of Cairo’s Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambl… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0863563759
- Language: English
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Mrs. Dalloway
$18.00 Read moreIn the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smit
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172655
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Read moreThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Emerson Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures/Essays: First and Second Series/Representative Men/English Traits/The Conduct of Life
$40.00 Add to cartOur most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called “the great and crescive se… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1150
- Publish Date: November 15 1983
- ISBN10: 0940450151
- Language: English
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El Espejo Enmendado / A Mirror Mended
$17.95 Add to cartEl espejo enmendado de Alix E. Harrow, la autora superventas de Las brujas del ayer y del ma?ana y de Las diez mil puertas de Enero, consigue insuflar de un atractivo incuestionable a una nueva versi?… [more below]
- Series: Las F?bulas Fracturadas
- Author: Harrow, Alix E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 8419743151
- Language: Spanish
