Literary Criticism
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Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition): Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
$32.00 Add to cartThis deluxe edition of the world’s most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially commissioned full-color plates and a beautiful gold-b… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0316438529
- Language: English
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1984856030
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$16.00 Add to cart#26 on The Guardian’s list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem,- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006238
- Language: English
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
$21.99 Add to cartChristopher Hitchens’s personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan
From… [more below]- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0306816083
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
$29.95 Add to cart“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”–Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentiet- Author: Bailey, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0691290172
- Language: English
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The Masnavi, Book Six
$13.99 Add to cart‘Until effaced no one can actually
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to ha
Enter the Court of Holy Majesty.
What is the meaning of the heavenly ascension?
Non-being: the mystics’ law school and religion.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0192874284
- Language: English
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Simulations
$13.95 Add to cartBaudrillard’s bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure’s general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don… [more below]
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0936756020
- Language: English
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales
$14.95 Add to cartExplore the Stories Behind the Legends
First introduced in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, Miles Morales reconceived Spider-Man as African American and Latinx, and his debut marked a n- Series: Marvel Age of Comics
- Author: Womack, Ytasha L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 25 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765131633
- Language: English
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Early American Writing
$26.00 Add to cartDrawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn’s anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature–incl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140390871
- Language: English
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Wolverine: Weapon X
$14.95 Add to cartExplore the Stories Behind the Legends
Naked, bloody, and screaming in pain – this is the Wolverine that faced readers in the story arc Weapon X. This was more than just the tale of how Wolverine got- Series: Marvel Age of Comics
- Author: Rugg, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 11 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765138762
- Language: English
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
$19.99 Add to cartIn this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson–whose renditions of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation’s imagination–explores the complicated terrain of r
- Author: Wilson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1324099402
- Language: English
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The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld with Helpful Hints from Planet Earth
$22.00 Add to cartOFFERING INSIGHTS INTO ALL 40 DISCWORLD NOVELS
Find out
– Why cheeses roll down hills
– The hazards of treacle mining
– What’s so uncanny about the humble hare
-The origins of orcs (which are not the- Author: Pratchett, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0804169039
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$18.99 Read moreA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063211831
- Language: English
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Black Narratives of Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Patterson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0197678378
- Language: English
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Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World
$19.00 Read moreThe story of how one misunderstood disease became the global blueprint for stigma and ostracization
Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World reveals leprosy as the world’s foundati- Author: Basciano, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1644454068
- Language: English
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The Magic Mountain
$16.98 Read more‘Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air–this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories…’
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: June 11 2026
- ISBN10: 0198889178
- Language: English
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Cookbooking: A Fan’s Guide
$30.00 Read moreAn eclectic, visually stunning pop-history, Cookbooking explores the most influential and beloved cookbooks through photographs, listicals, graphics, and snappy writing.
Subjects include: a visual h
- Author: Berne, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 1958417874
- Language: English
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The Two Greatest Novels Ever Written: The Wisdom of the Lord of the Rings and the Brothers Karamazov
$24.95 Add to cartThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky are both widely regarded as two of the greatest novels ever written. The former, originally published in English
- Author: Kreeft, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1685781551
- Language: English
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Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation
$18.99 Add to cart“These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation.”–Jhumpa Lahiri
A manifesto in 22 essays, Violent Phenomena
- Author: Bhanot, Kavita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 006332122X
- Language: English
