Classics / Criticism
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
$18.00 Add to cart“At a time when many Americans . . . are engaged in deep reflection about the meaning of the nation’s history [this] is an exceptionally useful companion for those who want to do so with honesty and i… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1984878425
- Language: English
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Babbitt
$10.95 Add to cartAmusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materiali… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0199567697
- Language: English
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The Library at Night
$19.95 Read moreA celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, i- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0300151306
- Language: English
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The Thorny Grace of It: And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics
$14.95 Read moreBest-selling and award-winning essayist Brian Doyle knows that the heartbeat of Catholicism is found not in papal decrees and pageantry, but in the parish halls, potluck dinners, and the believing com… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0829439064
- Language: English
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This Is Not a Novel and Other Novels
$19.95 Read moreDavid Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called “hypnotic,” “stunning,” and “exhilarating” and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallac… [more below]
- Author: Markson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027143
- Language: English
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The Diary of Adam and Eve: And Other Adamic Stories
$12.95 Add to cartWritten in diary form, The Diary of Adam and Eve is an ingenious, witty, and ultimately delightful retelling of the dawn of human creation with many a grain of truth for today’s gender disputes. Maste… [more below]
- Series: Hesperus Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1843910055
- Language: English
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Fathers and Sons
$9.99 Read moreWith an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
Translated by C.J. Hogarth.
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turge
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 05 1996
- ISBN10: 1853262862
- Language: English
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The Awakening
$10.00 Add to cartShe wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
Condemned as “sordid” and “immoral” on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin’s car- Series: Art of the Novella
- Author: Chopin, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 1935554123
- Language: English
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Seneca: Selected Letters
$13.95 Add to cartSeneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca’s personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Sto… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199533210
- Language: English
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Melmoth the Wanderer
$12.95 Add to cartWritten by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth Wanderer brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor d… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Maturin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540292
- Language: English
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Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
$19.95 Read more“A powerful celebration of poets…Lit lovers will be dazzled.”
Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for b
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0807012726
- Language: English
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La Noche de Tlatelolco / The Night of Tlatelolco
$22.95 Read moreEl 2 de octubre no se olvida. A partir de testimonios de v?ctimas, estudiantes, maestros, padres de familia, periodistas, intelectuales, as? como de agentes del estado opresor y de quienes no simpatiz
- Author: Poniatowska, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 6073900589
- Language: Spanish
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The End
$27.00 Read moreA serpentine maze of memory and artistic obsession in post-war communist Hungary told in bold experimental style and perfect for fans of Helen DeWitt
Nothing approximates death as closely as photograp- Author: Bartis, Attila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 575
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861423
- Language: English
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Grave
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they c- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Meier, Allison C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383655
- Language: English
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Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
$16.95 Read more“This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you alre
- Author: Diamond, Morty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 1933149566
- Language: English
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The Complete Brontë Collection
$39.99 Read moreThe perfect gift for any Bront Sisters lover for only 19.99. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Bront Sisters’ best and much-loved works. Beautifu… [more below]
- Series: Wordsworth Box Sets
- Author: Bront?, Anne
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 2608
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1840227907
- Language: English
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A Preface to Paradise Lost
$26.00 Add to cartC. S. Lewis’s illuminating reflections on Milton’s Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis’s own.
In Preface to Paradise Lost, the Christian apo
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0063222132
- Language: English
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Burmese Days
$12.00 Read moreIn the Burmese provincial town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat co
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1847498809
- Language: English
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Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
$23.00 Read moreA collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis
In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has be- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858828
- Language: English
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Where the Muses Still Haunt: The Second Reading
$26.00 Read more“Re-reading is one of life’s joys,” Anne Drury Hall reminds us. Not simply from the sweetness of remembering or because of the way a book can be like an old friend, but because returning to a great bo… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Anne Drury
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1587315394
- Language: English
