Literary Criticism
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The Great Gatsby: A Norton Critical Edition
$25.50 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.
- A full introduction, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.
- An unusually rich
- Series: Norton Critical Editions #0
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393656594
- Language: English
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Unmasking The Humourist: Alexander Gordon’s Lost Essays of Colonial Charleston, South Carolina
$27.95 Add to cartColonial America’s Greatest Literary Mystery Solved at Last
Unmasking The Humourist is a groundbreaking literary investigation that solves one of Colonial America’s greatest mysteries: Who wrote The Hu
- Series: The Wired Researcher
- Author: Kendrick, Brent L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886799156
- Language: English
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Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment
$29.00 Add to cartA collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh’s work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people making lives amid these historical forces.
Wild Fictions b- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2025
- ISBN10: 022684532X
- Language: English
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Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld
$26.00 Add to cartAn enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon and Middle Earth
Originating in Norse and Celtic mythologies, elves and fairies- Author: Egeler, Matthias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284403
- Language: English
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89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem
$25.99 Add to cartTwo newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time.
Translating a work from its original language can
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063436434
- Language: English
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How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People
$24.95 Add to cartOn the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianism
Children’s author Philip Pullman famously said that “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fict- Author: Wannamaker, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509800
- Language: English
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Pocket Book of Dragons: Myth, Magic & Meaning
$16.95 Add to cartCelebrating the stories and symbolism of the king of mythical beasts, the Pocket Book of Dragons explores dragons throughout history and across the world.
Overflowing with ancient and modern dragon ta- Author: Levy, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1797235583
- Language: English
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Ring Legends of Tolkien Deluxe Edition
$19.99 Add to cartThe most popular legends about the Rings of Power are discussed in detail in this deluxe edition that will hold a special place on your bookshelf.
The history of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional world of- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1667211331
- Language: English
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The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare
$30.00 Add to cartHow Shakespeare became Shakespeare: a riveting tale of London’s first playhouse and the people–actors, writers, builders, investors–who built the Theatre.
Between 1576 and 1598, a playhouse called- Author: Swift, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0374601275
- Language: English
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Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism
$27.00 Add to cartOstensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America’s most important essa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sarmiento, Domingo F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140436774
- Language: English
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The House of Being
$14.00 Add to cartAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey
“Trethewey doesn’t just explore the- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 030028179X
- Language: English
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How Poems Get Made
$20.99 Add to cartWhy does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exem… [more below]
- Author: Longenbach, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355209
- Language: English
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The Raven: The Classic Poem
$18.99 Add to cartEdgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” comes to life for young readers in this enchantingly illustrated picture book of the classic spooky poem.
Once upon a midnight dreary . . . So begins the story of a ma- Author: Bristol, Chloe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489618
- Language: English
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Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming
$23.95 Add to cartA queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emoti… [more below]
- Author: Clare, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032413
- Language: English
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Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966
$18.95 Add to cartThe final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time.
“Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, Andr? Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile al
- Author: Breton, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869393
- Language: English
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an essential guide for writers and readers alike: an exhilarating tour through one hundred novels that “inspires wicked delight.” —Los… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400033187
- Language: English
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Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation
$39.99 Add to cartTaking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-d?m, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholar… [more below]
- Author: Pezzini, Giuseppe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1009479679
- Language: English
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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
$32.00 Add to cart“[An] essential Beat masterpiece.” —The Village Voice.
Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119540
- Language: English
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Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A. A. Milne and the Creation of Winnie-The-Pooh
$33.00 Add to cartFor the 100th anniversary of the publication of “Winnie-the-Pooh,” Gyles Brandreth chronicles the writing of this beloved classic and the life of its creator, A. A. Milne.
Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear- Author: Brandreth, Gyles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250429900
- Language: English
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Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burials
Why, how, and where do we inter our dead?- Author: Luckhurst, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0691278377
- Language: English
