Literary Criticism
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By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the New York Times Book Review
$20.00 Add to cartSixty-five of the world’s leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them
Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see whic
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 125007469X
- Language: English
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Book Love
$14.99 Add to cartBookworms rejoice These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels for hardcovers. And paperbacks And ebooks And bookstores And libraries
Book Love is a gift book of- Author: Tung, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1449494285
- Language: English
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The Descent of Alette
$20.00 Add to cartThe Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds hers… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140587640
- Language: English
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The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
$18.00 Add to cartA timeless classic on the art of theatre from the most influential stage director of the twentieth century.
In this seminal and iconoclastic book, groundbreaking director and cofounder of the Royal Sh- Author: Brook, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684829576
- Language: English
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The Devil Finds Work: An Essay
$15.00 Add to cartFrom “the best essayist in this country” (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0307275957
- Language: English
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So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
$19.99 Add to cartThe “Fresh Air” book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby — “The Great American Novel we all think we’ve read, but really haven’t.”
Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who- Author: Corrigan, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0316230065
- Language: English
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
$24.00 Add to cartBest Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor)
Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R.- Author: Zaleski, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536252
- Language: English
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Poetry as Insurgent Art
$16.95 Read moreIn 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti’s… [more below]
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0811217191
- Language: English
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The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer–lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge–history, scien
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 06 2006
- ISBN10: 1933435097
- Language: English
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Thomas and Beulah
$15.95 Read moreA collection of poetry by Rita Dove.
- Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0887480217
- Language: English
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The Little Book of J.R.R. Tolkien: Wit and Wisdom from the Creator of Middle Earth
$8.95 Add to cartA renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created an entire alter
- Series: Little Books of Literature #11
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1800693745
- Language: English
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NB by J. C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement
$24.95 Add to cart“Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more–a uniquely personal miscel… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881753
- Language: English
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
$17.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become bette
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0062895818
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.95 Add to cartAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800533
- Language: English
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The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series
$22.99 Add to cartThe Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!
Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time(R) by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around- Series: Wheel of Time
- Author: Jordan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0765314622
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] [Again]
$19.43 Add to cartThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is not so much a play as it is a vaudeville show in which three charismatic, wildly ambitious actors attempt to present all thirty-seven of Shakesp
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Long, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493077309
- Language: English
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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
$26.00 Add to cartSeamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illum
- Author: Vendler, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066383
- Language: English
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
$20.00 Read moreNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.
What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each o- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338166
- Language: English
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A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925-2025
$50.00 Add to cartEdited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker
Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker- Author: New Yorker Magazine Inc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593801938
- Language: English
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You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke
$24.99 Add to cartFollowing Rilke’s advice to “live the questions,” this book invites us to draw upon his startling insights and often unconventional wisdom to see ourselves as ripening, unfolding, and always becoming.
- Author: Burrows, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1958972533
- Language: English
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