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Up Late: Poems
$26.95 Add to cartReeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity, and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the p
- Author: Laird, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065443
- Language: English
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 147678521X
- Language: English
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Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
$23.99 Add to cartFirst appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle English. While it is more than six centuries old, this mag… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343537
- Language: English
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The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
$82.00 Add to cart“The perfect companion to enjoy the most profound stories of the human condition that Shakespeare has given us and that I have had the privilege to perform, from Othello to King Lear.”–James Earl Jon… [more below]
- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1824
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0141000589
- Language: English
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Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, 1925-1928
$35.00 Add to cartThis fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf’s essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit, and original intelligence…. [more below]
- Series: Essays of Virginia Woolf
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0156035227
- Language: English
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Hamlet
$25.00 Add to cartChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world’s finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and be
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1914602145
- Language: English
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Orwell on Truth
$16.99 Add to cartOver the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, co… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0358065054
- Language: English
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The Caretaker: And, the Dumb Waiter: Two Plays
$15.00 Add to cartJacket description.back: In all of Pinter’s plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodgin… [more below]
- Series: Pinter, Harold
- Author: Pinter, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 18 1994
- ISBN10: 080215087X
- Language: English
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The Little Book of J.R.R. Tolkien: Wit and Wisdom from the Creator of Middle Earth
$8.95 Add to cartA renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created an entire alter
- Series: Little Books of Literature #11
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1800693745
- Language: English
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NB by J. C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement
$24.95 Add to cart“Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more–a uniquely personal miscel… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881753
- Language: English
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The Merchant of Venice
$10.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with sc- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130226
- Language: English
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The Prelude
$40.00 Add to cartA gorgeous new edition of the definitive text of Wordsworth’s The Prelude, with full-color contemporaneous illustrations that illuminate this epic poem. With a new afterword by Helen Vendler.
The Prel- Author: Wordsworth, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1684582504
- Language: English
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Stuff Happens
$18.00 Add to cart“Stuff happens . . . And it’s untidy, and freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”
Such was Donald Rumsfeld’s response on April 11, 2003, follo- Author: Hare, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 057122606X
- Language: English
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And So This Is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems
$19.99 Read moreIt’s that time of year again . . .
With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So This is Christmas, fifty-one poems in celebration of the festive season: from bizarre family traditions to- Author: Bilston, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1035031469
- Language: English
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The Life of Christina of Markyate
$15.95 Add to cart‘I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.’
This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire.- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fanous, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 199556059
- Language: English
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Troilus and Cressida
$19.00 Add to cartOften called the first great English novel, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story set during the siege of Troy, is Chaucer’s masterpiece. Troilus, a valiant warrior, is scornful of love until he c… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375757368
- Language: English
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As You Like It
$12.99 Add to cartThis edition of As You LIke It is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly cre… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0198328699
- Language: English
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Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
$20.99 Add to cartPoetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. In Sounding the Seasons, Cambridge poet and priest Malcolm Guite … [more below]
- Author: Guite, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1786225638
- Language: English
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El Problema del Dolor
$12.99 Add to cartPor qu? debemos sufrir? “”Si Dios es bueno y todopoderoso, por qu? permite que suscriaturas sufran?”” Y qu? del sufrimiento de los animales, quienes ni se merecen el dolor ni pueden mejorarse por m
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0061140031
- Language: Spanish
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Jane Austen’s Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
$21.99 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in this period, or simply curious as to how Christmas was celebrated in the past, this is a wonderful piece of indulgent nostalgia.
Christmas comes up time and- Author: Hubert, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1803993871
- Language: English
