Literary Criticism
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Hannibal Lecter: A Life
$30.00 Add to cartDrawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter documents the cannibal’s journey from terrifying villain to unexpectedly a… [more below]
- Author: Raftery, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668070588
- Language: English
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Oedipus Tyrannos: A Norton Critical Edition
$31.13 Add to cartEmily Wilson’s superb translation of Sophocles’ best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator’s note, and explanatory footnotes.
Comparative ancient sources that provide insigh… [more below]
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393655148
- Language: English
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On Morrison
$32.00 Add to cartAn illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor
“As gripping as it is intellectually brilliant . . . a classic.”–Cathy Park H- Author: Serpell, Namwali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 059373291X
- Language: English
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The Giggle-A-Day Joke Book
$7.99 Add to cartA jokebook written by children in conjunction with Child of Achievement Awards with celebrity jokes from John Major, Gloria Hunniford, Jonny Searle, Matthew Kelly and others.
A new collection of jokes,
- Author: The Child of Achievement(tm) Awards
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0007115911
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie’s writing l… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Plain, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0198863748
- Language: English
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Beautiful and Ugly Too
$19.95 Add to cartBeautiful and Ugly Too is a firsthand account of life in the Crescent City told through poetry and essays. A third-generation New Orleanian, author Chuck Perkins was born and raised in the Pigeon Town… [more below]
- Author: Perkins, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1959569244
- Language: English
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Memory
$17.95 Add to cartA poet’s spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer.
A spiritual homage to Bernadette Mayer’s monumental artwork of the same title, Dorothea Lasky’s Memory is a cycle- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Lasky, Dorothea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902592
- Language: English
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Where Love and Imagination Colour the Dark: Essays on Thomas Kinsella
$29.95 Add to cartWhere Love and Imagination Colour the Dark establishes a broad interdisciplinary context in which to consider the work of Thomas Kinsella, one of the most significant poets in modern Irish and interna… [more below]
- Author: Leavy, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1943667101
- Language: English
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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
$24.95 Add to cartAn entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our anc
- Author: Smyth, Gerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754508
- Language: English
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Daredevil: Born Again
$14.95 Add to cartExplore the Stories Behind the Legends
What happens when a hero loses everything? In Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil: Born Again, the comic’s titular hero has his life destroyed after- Series: Marvel Age of Comics
- Author: Ryall, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765131688
- Language: English
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Beowulf
$22.00 Add to cartThe greatest surviving Old English poem rendered into modern prose
Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beow- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: May 30 1957
- ISBN10: 0140440704
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartWith the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the pa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Shields, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035169
- Language: English
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The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world’s wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever Engli
- Author: Pinkham, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036680
- Language: English
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Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now
$22.50 Add to cartThis book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist expertise.
Humanities experts today are embattled. In a world of crises undermin- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Mesle, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843629
- Language: English
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Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives
$29.95 Add to cartA celebration of books and a love story to the written word that reveals how books help us connect with other readers through shared stories.
As a child, Lucy Mangan was reading all the time, using bo- Author: Mangan, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100446
- Language: English
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
$32.00 Add to cartNobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious
In- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593802748
- Language: English
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Pericles: Prince of Tyre
$14.00 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: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140714693
- Language: English
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Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense
$19.95 Add to cartThe winner of four Emmys, a Peabody, and two Writers Guild Awards (all of which badly need dusting) explains his process for writing comedy without going insane.
Philosophers may debate the meaning o- Author: Kalan, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226829928
- Language: English
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Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present
$29.95 Add to cartA gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore.
In this ground-breaking book, two leading experts provide the definitive guide to British folklore past and present. Owen Davies a- Author: Davies, Owen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1526180383
- Language: English
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
$22.95 Add to cart“Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.”
One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco was fond of p
—The Atlantic- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 067430246X
- Language: English
