Classics / Criticism
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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
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The Essential T.S. Eliot
$25.99 Add to cartA selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri
T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century l
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 006297811X
- Language: English
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The Portable Henry Rollins
$22.00 Read moreHenry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year… [more below]
- Author: Rollins, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0375750002
- Language: English
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Sanctuary
$17.00 Add to cartA powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0679748148
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Diane Johnson
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Grea
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783326
- Language: English
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Just What the Doctor Disordered: Early Writings & Cartoons of Dr. Seuss
$14.95 Add to cartBefore his worldwide fame as a bestselling children’s author, Theodor Seuss Geisel was a prolific writer and cartoonist for humor magazines of the early twentieth century. The creator of Green Eggs an… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
- Author: Dr Seuss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: December 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0486498468
- Language: English
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
$16.95 Read moreRevised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes “any verbal nuance, however slight, w… [more below]
- Author: Empson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 1966
- ISBN10: 081120037X
- Language: English
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The Crack-Up
$19.95 Add to cartThe Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald’s sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0811218201
- Language: English
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La Caida de la Casa Usher
$20.95 Read moreThe Fall of the House of Usher is the quintessential gothic tale: a haunted house, a gloomy landscape, two twin brothers, a mysterious illness. All the elements of the genre are easily identifiable, a… [more below]
- Author: Allan Poe, Edgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 8417651438
- Language: Spanish
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Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$24.00 Read moreThe first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters'” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Provides an occasion to revisit- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271131
- Language: English
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On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
$40.00 Read moreA sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book histor- Author: Holsinger, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260210
- Language: English
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The Strangers’ House: Writing Northern Ireland
$30.00 Read moreA penetrating study and celebration of Northern Irish literature–telling the region’s story through the extraordinary novels and poetry produced by decades of conflict.
Northern Ireland is one hundr- Author: Poots, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 153870157X
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$14.99 Read moreNow on Netflix! Jane Austen’s wickedly satirical final novel, starring Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding and Richard E. Grant.
Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series o- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621706
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting
$17.99 Read moreJane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able… [more below]
- Series: Read and Reflect with the Classics
- Author: Prior, Karen Swallow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1462796680
- Language: English
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Islands in the Stream
$32.00 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
A later, posthumously published classic following the adventures of a painter in the midst of World War II. First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway’s death, thi- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0743253426
- Language: English
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My Emily Dickinson
$15.95 Add to cartFor Wallace Stevens, “Poetry is the scholar’s art.” Susan Howe–taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides–embodies that art in her
- Author: Howe, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0811216837
- Language: English
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South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South
$29.95 Read moreThis anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the … [more below]
- Author: Aryal, Khem K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1680032968
- Language: English
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Dove Descending: A Journey Into T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
$16.95 Read moreThroughout the world, many consider T.S. Eliot to be the most important and influential poet of the 20th century, and Four Quartets to be his finest poem and greatest literary achievement. Dove Descen… [more below]
- Series: Sapienta Classics
- Author: Howard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170406
- Language: English
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Just Us: An American Conversation
$30.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation–Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increas- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1644450216
- Language: English
