Literary Criticism
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One Aladdin Two Lamps
$28.00 Add to cart“Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp. Jeanette Winterson and Shahrazad are the perfect co-pilots to take us into new worlds on the wings of old stories.”—Kamila Shamsie, award-winning author of Ho
- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 080216711X
- Language: English
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The World in Books: A Year of Reading–Wisely
$21.00 Add to cartA bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world’s most influential writers–fr… [more below]
- Series: Great Short Books
- Author: Davis, Kenneth C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668015609
- Language: English
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George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she wa- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Atkinson, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0198864329
- Language: English
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The Gate
$17.95 Read moreAn NYRB Classics Original
A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of havi- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Soseki, Natsume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1590175875
- Language: English
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Experience: A Memoir (25th Anniversary Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartMartin Amis blends vivid memories, sharp wit, and tender honesty to deliver an unforgettable memoir that explores his relationships with family, personal tragedies, and the absurdities of being known.
- Author: Amis, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1250414881
- Language: English
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Videotape
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Godeanu-Kenworthy, Oana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765100004
- Language: English
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This Craft of Verse
$22.95 Add to cart“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” –Steven Poole, The Guardian
Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries.- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674302451
- Language: English
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Lola the Interpreter
$18.95 Add to cartThe final book by the award-winning and celebrated writer Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian’s Lola the Interpreter is a prose poem in which an ‘I’ and a series of quasi-characters (including Lola) interpret on
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hejinian, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501972
- Language: English
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Poem a Day: 366 Poems, Old and New – One for Each Day of the Year
$22.95 Add to cartFill your life with more poetry, every day of the year! Read it daily by yourself or use it to connect with friends or your book club
A book for self-discovery, and also sharing, with more than 100,00- Author: McCosker, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 158642419X
- Language: English
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Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture
$18.95 Read more“Grafius uses his extensive knowledge of horror films to tease out horror tropes from the Bible . . . this book is thought-provoking.” -Library Journal
You may know the Bible as a testament of faith. B
- Author: Grafius, Brandon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1640657835
- Language: English
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The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
$25.00 Add to cartChicago’s renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume.
Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844692
- Language: English
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Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History
$29.95 Add to cartQueer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources – incl… [more below]
- Author: Goldhill, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1009528068
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection- Author: Schmiesing, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300285574
- Language: English
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Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
$19.99 Add to cart“Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now.” — James Wood, The New Yorker
A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and b- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1685892078
- Language: English
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Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies
$37.00 Add to cartAn inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearing
When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1945861045
- Language: English
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American Proteus: Narrative Self-Making in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Wenke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0881469920
- Language: English
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Selected Poems: Dual-Language Edition
$16.00 Add to cartA selection of poems from one of the nineteenth century’s greatest French writers
For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes celebrated- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437034
- Language: English
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The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
$34.95 Add to cartBooks are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones– they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Joel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088939
- Language: English
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U and I: A True Story
$19.00 Add to cartBaker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size–fellow novelist and omn… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Baker, Nicholson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 04 1992
- ISBN10: 0679735755
- Language: English
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Cat
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Laer, Rebecca Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765114629
- Language: English
