Literary Criticism
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The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection
$29.95 Read moreAn authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary.
Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama a- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271823
- Language: English
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The Parasite: Volume 1
$19.95 Add to cartInfluential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pe
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #1
- Author: Serres, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0816648816
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
$21.00 Read moreNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – National Bestseller – A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change th… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075351
- Language: English
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
$16.00 Read moreA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of- Author: Row, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978320
- Language: English
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Bilbo’s Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in the Hobbit
$19.95 Read moreDiscover the Christian meaning in The Hobbit
In Bilbo’s Journey go beyond the dragons, dwarves, and elves, and discover the surprisingly deep meaning of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel The Hobbit.- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 23 2012
- ISBN10: 1618900587
- Language: English
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The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
$14.99 Read moreNew York Times Bestselling author Pull up a chair and enjoy this hilarious original collection of McManus humor
The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories is a hilarious addition to Patrick F. McManus- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1626361177
- Language: English
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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints
$24.99 Read moreChristianity Today 2023 Award of Merit (Culture & the Arts)
Midwest Book Review 2023 Silver Book Award (Nonfiction – Religion/Philosophy)How do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year’s r… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jessica Hooten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1587435241
- Language: English
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One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art
$26.95 Read moreA selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by auth
- Author: Cirino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927130
- Language: English
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States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
$20.00 Read moreStates of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.
As one of the most discussed b- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0226815536
- Language: English
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What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
$75.00 Read moreOn the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land‘s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Lan- Author: Rasula, Jed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 069122577X
- Language: English
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Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion
$40.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writings
This lively book reveals the cl- Author: Davidson, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0300218729
- Language: English
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Poems of Arab Andalusia
$15.95 Add to cartThese poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa’id, who wanted poems “whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose l
- Author: Franzen, Cola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0872862429
- Language: Spanish
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
$20.00 Read moreA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constan- Series: French List
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092742
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Crit- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222040
- Language: English
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Voidopolis
$22.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, which retells Dante’s Inferno as if it were set in pandemic-ravaged New Y… [more below]
- Series: Leonardo
- Author: Mustatea, Kat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048264
- Language: English
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Wine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inex- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bernhard, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383612
- Language: English
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I Have No Regrets: Diaries, 1955-1963
$24.50 Read moreFrank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann’s collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany.
With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts o- Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature
- Author: Reimann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091800
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
$17.95 Read moreRanging from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations to Toni Morrison’s revolutionary humanism to D’Angelo’s simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy’s bracing essays investigate with
- Author: McCarthy, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091479
- Language: English
