Literary Criticism
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Flannery O’Connor: Spiritual Writings
$19.00 Read moreFlannery O’Connor (1925-1964) is widely regarded as one of the great American writers of the twentieth century, author of singular short stories (including “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “The Life Y
- Series: Modern Spiritual Masters
- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 173
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1570754705
- Language: English
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The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation
$16.95 Add to cartthe lantern light seems to have written a poem;
they feel lonesome since i won’t read them.
–“lantern” by Fei MingThe work of Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei ha
- Author: Wang, Yilin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1778430384
- Language: English
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The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$25.00 Add to cartLearn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple a… [more below]- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1465429875
- Language: English
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Letters from Sweden
$37.33 Add to cartThe “Greatest Generation” was filled with war heroes and love stories, during and shortly after World War II. Love of God, country, and family were the priorities of young men and women facing and sur… [more below]
- Author: Schaeffer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0881468991
- Language: English
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Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology
$12.95 Add to cart‘Who would you say knows himself?’
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contempo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856091
- Language: English
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The Jungle Books
$8.94 Add to cartThe Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the “Mowgli” series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling’s phil… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536457
- Language: English
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Samuel Johnson: The Major Works
$16.95 Add to cartSamuel Johnson’s literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538336
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
$27.00 Read more- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600078
- Language: English
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95 Read moreA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0863565247
- Language: English
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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism
$47.48 Add to cart- Author: Warraq, Ibn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591024846
- Language: English
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David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium
$50.00 Add to cartA remarkable illustrated volume of artwork and images selected from the diaries David Sedaris has been creating for four decades
In this richly illustrated book, readers will for the first time experi- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0316431710
- Language: English
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Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication
$40.00 Add to cartFor writers Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic “hall of mirrors,” Aldous Huxley a “city of dreadful joy.” Wh… [more below]
- Author: Ulin, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 30 2002
- ISBN10: 1931082278
- Language: English
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The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales
$29.00 Read moreOnce upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script.
People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often dr- Author: Duggan, Anne E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147697
- Language: English
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Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God
$16.99 Read moreCaptain America assembles the Avengers. Iron Man battles Thanos. Luke Skywalker duels Darth Vader. Aragorn charges Mordor. Batman confronts the Joker. Superman destroys Doomsday. Wonder Woman defeats … [more below]
- Author: Turek, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1641583517
- Language: English
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The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of Eromanga
$19.99 Add to cartWhile manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium’s international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of … [more below]
- Author: Rito, Kimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1634422538
- Language: English
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The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
$15.99 Add to cartMillions of readers have been captivated by C. S. Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so appealing? For more than half a century, scholars h… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1414339658
- Language: English
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A Loeb Classical Library Reader
$9.95 Read moreA paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.
This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity’s major authors includes poetry, dial- Series: Loeb Classical Library
- Author: Loeb Classical Library
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 30 2006
- ISBN10: 067499616X
- Language: English
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The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
$15.95 Add to cartDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson’s new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Parkinson, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555621
- Language: English
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Devotion
$17.00 Read moreThe National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process
“Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable si- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0300218621
- Language: English
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In Front of Your Nose: 1946-1950
$19.95 Read moreEssays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1945 to 1950. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our wo
- Series: Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters George Orwell
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 555
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 1567921361
- Language: English
