Literary Criticism
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The Bibliophile Oracle Deck: A 52-Card Deck and Guidebook for Book Lovers
$22.00 Add to cartAn oracle deck for every book lover, this fun and playful 52-card deck with instructional booklet will help you set an intention for your day, find your way when you feel lost, or spark creativity as … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Lindsey
- Binding:
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593797337
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Box Set
$15.95 Add to cartTo paraphrase the Bard, though they be but little, they are fierce… A pocket-sized box set of three 3″ hardcover Bard books, the perfect gift for your favorite Shakespeare enthusiast.
Behold a delu- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0762459433
- Language: English
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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
$30.00 Add to cartA Next Big Idea Club “Must Read” for August 2025!
We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe.
Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of s
- Author: Scranton, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640035
- Language: English
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Anthony Trollope: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Anthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English language. His strongly drawn characters and skilful plots are compelling, while- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Birch, Dinah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192845624
- Language: English
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Honey for a Woman’s Heart: Growing Your World Through Reading Great Books
$16.99 Add to cartVibrates with encouragement for women who want to explore and enjoy the world of books Gladys Hunt, long-time advocate of reading and author of the cherished Honey for a Child’s Heart, has written thi
- Author: Hunt, Gladys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0310238463
- Language: English
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Sophocles: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placi- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hall, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192897802
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan
$29.99 Add to cartThe difficulty of Jacques Lacan’s thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Hardcover)
- Author: McGowan, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: July 31 2025
- ISBN10: 100930075X
- Language: English
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Why Poetry
$18.00 Add to cartAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Ma
- Author: Zapruder, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0062343084
- Language: English
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Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
$22.00 Add to cartA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library
“[A] fascinating new study.”–Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s- Author: Roberts, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281137
- Language: English
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Dead and Alive: Essays
$30.00 Add to cartA profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays
In this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to be- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593834682
- Language: English
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Jorge Luis Borges: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, phil… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0197761380
- Language: English
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New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine
$27.00 Add to cartThe magazine that is the city that is the world
Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories t- Author: Editors of New York Magazine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0812979923
- Language: English
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A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler
$40.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.
Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like A- Author: Kernan, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0374281173
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$22.00 Add to cartRichard Howard’s exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal’s stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat’s adventures i… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783180
- Language: English
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The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937
$39.95 Add to cartAn authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism
This book brings together a weal- Author: Patterson, Martha H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0691268592
- Language: English
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Alterations
$17.95 Add to cart“In the city where I was born there is a collective of women taking apart donated wedding dresses. Seam ripping and taking off lace, uprooting stitches and unstringing beads–one by one by hand in the… [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Winrock, Cori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893389012
- Language: English
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Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination
$22.00 Add to cartMonsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from?
In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a j
- Author: Jubber, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992117
- Language: English
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Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.’
Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman’s body be measured against a man’s life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Mea- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192865862
- Language: English
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
$19.99 Add to cartMichael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe
- Author: Korda, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096187
- Language: English
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Words with Power: Being a Second Study the Bible and Literature
$19.00 Add to cartIn Words With Power, literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye continues his exploration, begun in The Great Code, of the influence of Biblical themes and forms of expression on Western literature, w
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156983656
- Language: English
