Literary Criticism
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Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy
$35.00 Add to cartThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South
Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it- Author: Black, Derek W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272820
- Language: English
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One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting in
$19.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist
One in a Millennial is an exploration- Author: Kennedy, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250874165
- Language: English
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Always the Many, Never the One
$20.00 Add to cartWith a starting point on July 14, 2021, when the Centre national de litt駻ature hosted Pierre Joris’ 75th birthday celebration, Always the Many, Never the One builds upon the initial interview by Flo
- Author: Joris, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1940625580
- Language: English
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The Shepherd’s Calendar: Manuscript and Published Version
$21.95 Add to cartA work of rural beauty by John Clare, one of the greatest pastoral poets of nineteenth century English literature.
- Author: Clare, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1857548914
- Language: English
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A Man of Modern Letters
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #2
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065282
- Language: English
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
$16.99 Add to cart“A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in touch with mankind.” —New York Times
Newly reissued with an introduction by Plum Sykes, this cult favorite is a delightful diary–think Nan
- Author: Hanff, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 006244218X
- Language: English
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Mark Twain: Wit & Wisecracks
$6.95 Add to cartRollicking humor from a great wit, including, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”.
- Author: Peter Pauper Press, Inc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0880880805
- Language: English
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The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition
$29.95 Add to cartFilled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco’s engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their wo… [more below]
- Author: Turco, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0826361889
- Language: English
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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
$25.99 Add to cartWhen Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous “Boom” of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only w… [more below]
- Author: Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0195130855
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of W. H. Auden
$18.00 Add to cartThis significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetor… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Auden, W. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0307278085
- Language: English
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The Art of the Hobbit
$45.00 Add to cartJ.R.R. Tolkien’s complete artwork for The Hobbit, presented for the first time in this edition.
When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrat- Author: Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0547928254
- Language: English
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Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together
$27.99 Read moreWelcome to Our Book of Awesome, a celebration of the small joys that bring us together.
In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around- Author: Pasricha, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164506
- Language: English
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The Faraway Nearby
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell’s Roses Apricots. Her mother’- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125494
- Language: English
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Death in the Afternoon
$21.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic exploration of the history and pageantry of bullfighting, and the deeper themes of cowardice, bravery, sport and tragedy that it inspires.
Still considered one of the best b- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 16 1996
- ISBN10: 0684801450
- Language: English
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The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
$82.00 Add to cart“The perfect companion to enjoy the most profound stories of the human condition that Shakespeare has given us and that I have had the privilege to perform, from Othello to King Lear.”–James Earl Jon… [more below]
- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1824
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0141000589
- Language: English
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Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, 1925-1928
$35.00 Add to cartThis fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf’s essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit, and original intelligence…. [more below]
- Series: Essays of Virginia Woolf
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0156035227
- Language: English
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Invitation to a Beheading
$17.00 Add to cartLike Kafka’s The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world.
In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading fo- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: September 19 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725318
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$18.99 Add to cart“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry
In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603613
- Language: English
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION
“The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and morta- Author: Boyer, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1250757983
- Language: English
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Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books
$35.00 Add to cartA visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library, this dream-and-drool design book features some of the most jaw-dropping book collections of homeowners around the… [more below]
- Author: Freudenberger, Nina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0525575448
- Language: English
