Literary Criticism
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I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction
$35.00 Add to cartThis second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion’s collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593992210
- Language: English
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Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
$17.95 Add to cartTOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes’s and Chris Abani’s introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations t
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142559
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
$17.32 Add to cartThe Great Jazz Age Novel
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The 1925 Original Version, with Classroom History
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The Great Gatsby is considered F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, exploring themes of decadence, idealism, social
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1936767848
- Language: English
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The World According to Joan Didion
$18.99 Add to cart**INDIE BESTSELLER**
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions – B&N Best Books of 2023 – “Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace … McDonnell’s portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive,
- Author: McDonnell, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0063419157
- Language: English
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer–struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction–and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenti
- Author: Leadbeater, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371588
- Language: English
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On Elizabeth Bishop
$16.95 Add to cartA compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today’s most acclaimed novelists
In this book, novelist Colm T?ib?n offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most im- Series: Writers on Writers #7
- Author: TóibÃn, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271046
- Language: English
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Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud
$20.00 Add to cartA powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
“A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy.”–Rowan- Series: Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283334
- Language: English
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Christian Race Realism
$26.99 Add to cartIn Christian Race Realism, Michael Spangler defines and defends race realism from a Christian perspective. He draws on arguments from nature, Scripture, American history, and experience. First, he giv
- Author: Spangler, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1967584001
- Language: English
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Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
$35.00 Add to cartFrom a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction
“This magnificent biography of Robert Louis Stevens- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300268629
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Guide to Living the Good Life: Life Lessons for Comedy, Tragedy, and Everything in Between
$21.99 Add to cart“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” —Measure for Measure, act 3, scene 1
Shakespeare’s plays and poems remain as beloved in the twenty-first century as they were in the sixteenth. For all- Author: Bradley, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1950253570
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
$32.00 Add to cartThoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest–a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of w
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 006232652X
- Language: English
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
$21.00 Add to cartWhy are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0812980018
- Language: English
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The Portable Greek Reader
$26.00 Add to cartIt is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a pe… [more below]
- Series: Portable Library
- Author: Auden, W. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 25 1977
- ISBN10: 0140150390
- Language: English
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The Second Common Reader: The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition
$20.99 Add to cartHere, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters and De… [more below]
- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028166
- Language: English
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The Siege of Krishnapur
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the Booker Prize. An insightful and thrilling novel about the British Empire in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857, as seen through the eyes of a young, love-struck idealist.
India, 1857- Series: Empire Trilogy
- Author: Farrell, J. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 159017092X
- Language: English
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Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot
$22.99 Add to cartThe Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot, edited by Professor Frank Kermode, gathers work from Eliot’s unrivalled career as a literary and social critic. These thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in gen
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0156806541
- Language: English
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War and the Iliad
$16.95 Add to cartWar and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer’s art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and deat… [more below]
- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 31 2005
- ISBN10: 1590171454
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Perception: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman
$16.95 Add to cartCandid and instantly engaging, this will be the go-to introduction to Lynne Tillman for readers everywhere and is a must have for any fan. A breakthrough for the legendary underground icon, who speaks… [more below]
- Author: Lewandowski, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1648230938
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
$13.99 Add to cart‘I was at one of those periods in youth–vacant, without any particular love object–when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.’
In the Shadow o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0192845675
- Language: English
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The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA comprehensive selection of one of our most beloved poet’s rich and significant body of work alongside a gathering of “brilliant, deeply pleasurable” new poems (Booklist).
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0375710035
- Language: English
