Classics / Criticism
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Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
$16.00 Read moreMann’s bestselling work of fiction now appears in a trade paperback format with a striking new jacket. Sales of the classic have totaled over 800,000 copies and average 42,000 copies a year.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: March 13 1989
- ISBN10: 0679722068
- Language: English
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
$12.95 Add to cartCrossley-Holland–the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts–introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crossley-Holland, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538719
- Language: English
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Heroines, New Edition
$17.95 Add to cartA manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade.
I am beginning to realize that taking the s- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Zambreno, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1635902088
- Language: English
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Comfort Is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine
$18.95 Read moreAmy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Watervi… [more below]
- Author: Calder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1952143470
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Add to cartThe 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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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
$17.00 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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The English Patient: Introduction by Pico Iyer
$26.00 Add to cartMichael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the … [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Ondaatje, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0307700879
- Language: English
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Sense and Sensibility
$6.95 Add to cartIn 1811, Jane Austen’s first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England’s premier novelist of manners. Believing that “3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing t… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0553213342
- Language: English
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
$19.00 Add to cartThe most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column–including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garc… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0593137043
- Language: English
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The Woodlanders
$8.94 Add to cartLove and the erratic heart are at the center of Hardy’s “woodland story.” Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-to-do… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538530
- Language: English
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Ulysses: An Illustrated Edition
$85.00 Add to cartThis strikingly illustrated edition presents Joyce’s epic novel in a new, more accessible light, while showcasing the incredible talent of a leading Spanish artist.
The neo-figurative artist Eduard… [more below]- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1635420261
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
$8.94 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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Afterward: A Ghost Story for Christmas
$6.95 Add to cartA newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious … [more below]
- Series: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1771961333
- Language: English
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Little Women: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin
$45.00 Add to cartThe exquisite illustrations of Marjolein Bastin meet timeless text in this elegant special edition of an American masterpiece.
The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic- Series: Marjolein Bastin Classics
- Author: Bastin, Marjolein
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1524873853
- Language: English
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Every Day Is To-Day: Essential Writings
$18.00 Read moreA gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein’s most enrapturing and essential short writings–a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works
Between the Fr- Series: Essential Stories
- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1782278796
- Language: English
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
$24.99 Add to cartIn these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married fa… [more below]
- Series: VMC Designer Collection, Virago Modern Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0349009678
- Language: English
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The Fortune of the Rougons
$13.95 Add to cartThe Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola’s famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about, and the origins of the hereditary weaknesses pa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199560994
- Language: English
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Rising from the Plains
$19.00 Add to cartRising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker
$16.95 Add to cartFrom 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker‘s “Talk of the Town” department under the pen name “The Long-Winded Lady.” Her unforgettable sketches–prose snapshots of life in small restau… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Maeve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027119
- Language: English
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The Time Machine/The Invisible Man
$7.95 Add to cartTogether in one indispensable volume, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction.
The Time Machine conveys- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530705
- Language: English
