Classics / Criticism
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The Reivers
$18.00 Read moreOne of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741925
- Language: English
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Niki
$18.99 Read moreA resilient Greek woman recounts her and her family’s extraordinary story at the end of her life, marked by the great historical events of the twentieth century.
Born in 1938, Niki, the daughter of th- Author: Chomenidis, Christos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1635421977
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and Doodles
$19.95 Read moreThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain’s journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts… [more below]
- Series: Notebook
- Author: de Vito, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1579129978
- Language: English
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
$9.99 Add to cartWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce’s Dubliners and
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260061
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
$8.95 Add to cartHardy’s last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure caused much outrage when it was published in 1895. Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953702X
- Language: English
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The Three Musketeers: Introduction by Allan Massie
$35.00 Add to cartAlexandre Dumas’s most famous tale– and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time– in a handsome hardcover volume.
This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in Fran- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0307594998
- Language: English
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The Vagabond
$12.95 Read moreFrom the author of Gigi comes this tale of 33-year-old Renée Néré, recently divorced and seeking a new life as a vaudeville performer. Maxime, a wealthy playboy, tempts her from the path of indepen… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0486475859
- Language: English
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One of Ours
$16.00 Add to cartWilla Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier.
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the younge- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0679737448
- Language: English
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Zofloya: Or the Moor
$15.95 Add to cartFew venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.’ This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dacre, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549737
- Language: English
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The Death of the Heart
$17.00 Read moreThe Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen’s best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals her… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0385720173
- Language: English
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Magazine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy –- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394959
- Language: English
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Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham
$32.95 Read moreA micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love-hate relationship with New York City.
By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Love- Author: Goodwin, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504418
- Language: English
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On Being Ill: With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen
$16.00 Read moreWith magnificent language, Virginia Woolf explores the ways that illness transforms our perceptions
This new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mothe… [more below]
- Series: Paris Press
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1930464134
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Read moreThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
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Dialogues and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAlain de Botton’s bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy–later made into a six-part TV series–has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offer… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552401
- Language: English
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Children of the Alley
$17.95 Read moreThe tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring na… [more below]
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0385264739
- Language: English
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Despair
$17.00 Add to cartThe wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime–his own murder. – “A beautiful mystery plot, not to be revealed.” – Newsweek
“Nabokov writes prose … [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: May 14 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723439
- Language: English
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
$17.00 Add to cartTruman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679745645
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
