Classics / Criticism

  • Tree Spirits Grass Spirits

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    A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito–part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy.

    Written between April 2012 and Novembe

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    • Author: Ito, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621920
    • Language: English
  • Siddhartha

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    This classic of twentieth-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha–a tale that has inspired generations of readers. We are invited alon… [more below]

    • Series: Shambhala Pocket Library #31
    • Author: Hesse, Hermann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: December 11 2018
    • ISBN10: 1611806445
    • Language: English
  • Catching Fire: A Translation Diary

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    An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.

    In Catching Fire, the translation of Diamela Eltit’s Never Did the Fire unfolds in

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    • Series: Untranslated
    • Author: Hahn, Daniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 205
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 1913867250
    • Language: English
  • A Left-Handed Woman: Essays

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    WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY

    A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer.

    Judith

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    • Author: Thurman, Judith
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: December 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 0374607168
    • Language: English
  • A Lost Lady

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    A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them.

    To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forres… [more below]

    • Series: Vintage Classics
    • Author: Cather, Willa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: June 16 1990
    • ISBN10: 0679728872
    • Language: English
  • Only a Voice: Essays

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    Essays on politics, power, and culture from one of America’s most eminent critics

    In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity’s promise of progress and the sobering reality

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    • Author: Scialabba, George
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: August 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1804292001
    • Language: English
  • To the Lighthouse

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    A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood

    A Penguin Vitae Edition

    Every summer, Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their eight children vacati

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    • Series: Penguin Vitae
    • Author: Woolf, Virginia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 0143137573
    • Language: English
  • Frodo’s Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of the Lord of the Rings

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    J. R. R. Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings, has been beloved for generations, selling millions of copies and selling millions more tickets through its award-winning film adaptations. The im… [more below]

    • Author: Pearce, Joseph
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 158
    • Publish Date: August 01 2015
    • ISBN10: 1618906755
    • Language: English
  • Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth

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    The range of J. R. R. Tolkien’s talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but als… [more below]

    • Author: McIlwaine, Catherine
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: July 25 2018
    • ISBN10: 1851244859
    • Language: English
  • The War of the Worlds

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    H.G. Wells’s science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vivid nearly after a century after its appearance, and… [more below]

    • Series: Bantam Classics
    • Author: Wells, H. G.
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 194
    • Publish Date: November 01 1988
    • ISBN10: 0553213385
    • Language: English
  • The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion

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    In The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion internationally acclaimed scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull examine Tolkien’s masterpiece chapter by chapter, offering expert insights into i

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    • Author: Hammond, Wayne G.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: December 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 0618642676
    • Language: English
  • The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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    It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: “When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.” So begins Ka… [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Kafka, Franz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: July 26 2009
    • ISBN10: 0199238553
    • Language: English
  • Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on Tolkien

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    A major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship

    With the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien’s

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    • Author: Flieger, Verlyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 331
    • Publish Date: February 01 2012
    • ISBN10: 1606350943
    • Language: English
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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    With an Introduction by Angus Calder.

    As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First Wor

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    • Series: Classics of World Literature
    • Author: Lawrence, T. E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 704
    • Publish Date: June 05 1997
    • ISBN10: 1853264695
    • Language: English
  • Fifty-Two Stories

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    From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.

    Anton Chekhov l

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    • Series: Vintage Classics
    • Author: Chekhov, Anton
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 528
    • Publish Date: January 19 2021
    • ISBN10: 0525562389
    • Language: English
  • Banzeiro Ã’kòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World

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    A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.

    In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira

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    • Author: Brum, Eliane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644452197
    • Language: English
  • Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood

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    The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essay… [more below]

    • Author: Davey, Moyra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 1583220720
    • Language: English
  • Anna Karenina

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    ‘One of the greatest love stories in world literature’ Vladimir Nabokov

    Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story i

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    • Series: Vintage Classics
    • Author: Tolstoy, Leo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 992
    • Publish Date: May 01 2017
    • ISBN10: 1784871958
    • Language: English
  • El Arte de la Guerra

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    Expressed in a concise and direct style that renders the message effective and appealing to modern audiences, this Chinese military treatise is just as relevant today as it was more than 2,000 years a… [more below]

    • Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
    • Author: Tzu, Sun
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: October 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 8417430563
    • Language: Spanish
  • Letters from Tove

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    A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins

    Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles

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    • Author: Jansson, Tove
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: June 22 2021
    • ISBN10: 1517910102
    • Language: English
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