Literary Criticism
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The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin
$18.99 Read moreHumane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.
The Undercurrents is a dazzling- Author: Bell, Kirsty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1635423449
- Language: English
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Echo
$16.95 Read moreAn exploration of echo not as simple repetition but as an agent of creative possibilities.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amit Pinchevski proposes that echo is not simple- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Pinchevski, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543400
- Language: English
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Literary Cats
$25.00 Add to cartA light-hearted journey through the history of literary cats.
From Puss in Boots to T. S. Eliot’s Jellicles, cats have long inspired an incredible range of fiction, memoir, and poetry. This book cele- Author: Robinson, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1851245731
- Language: English
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Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium
$29.95 Read moreThe Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiqu
- Author: Peters, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0060538112
- Language: English
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Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
$20.00 Read moreTerry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated fro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270445
- Language: English
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
$19.00 Read moreIn June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically
- Author: Summerscale, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 080271742X
- Language: English
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Poems of a Penisist
$19.95 Read more“In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen,” begins Mutsuo Takahashi’s epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, “Ode,” the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poe
- Author: Takahashi, Mutsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2012
- ISBN10: 081667972X
- Language: English
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
$19.95 Read moreA classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire’s life and work
Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best k- Series: Verso Classics
- Author: Benjamin, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290459
- Language: English
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The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition
$18.95 Read more“Fascinating and vivid.” New Statesman
“Thoroughly researched.” The Spectator
“Intriguing.” BBC History Magazine
“Vividly told.” BBC History Revealed
“A timely warning against persecution.” Morning Star
“A- Author: Callow, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1350387126
- Language: English
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El Fuego de la Imaginación: Libros, Escenarios, Pantallas Y Museos. Obra Periodí Stica 1 / The Fire of Imagination. Journalistic Works 1
$24.95 Read moreLA CULTURA, PROTAGONISTA DEL PRIMER VOLUMEN DE LA OBRA PERIODÍSTICA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
«No hay cultura genuina sin pluralidad de ideas y sin crítica
Durante más- Series: Obra Periodística
- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 6073823584
- Language: Spanish
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Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami
$17.95 Read moreHow did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A “fascinating” look at the “business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience” (The… [more below]
- Author: Karashima, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1593765894
- Language: English
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When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book
$16.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
Longlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Award
An unflinchingly raw and lyrical explora
- Author: Aidt, Naja Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1566895936
- Language: English
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind Over a Universe of Death
$22.00 Read more“The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon … [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261535
- Language: English
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
$19.95 Read more“For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing on writing from the course of her career, this bo… [more below]
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765097
- Language: English
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The Art of Haiku: Its History Through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
$29.95 Read more- Author: Addiss, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1645471217
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
$17.95 Read moreFrom Poirot to Miss Marple, from The Mousetrap to Witness for the Prosecution, this a fascinating look at the life and work of Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful and popular crime writer.
Ag- Author: Keating, H. R. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362940
- Language: English
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The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney
$18.95 Add to cartAmong the most accomplished lyrics of the English Renaissance, The Sidney Psalter influenced poets from Donne and Herbert to Milton and beyond. It turned the well-known biblical psalms into sophistica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sidney, Sir Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2009
- ISBN10: 0199217939
- Language: English
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading-- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0345806212
- Language: English
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On Reading
$29.95 Read moreAndr Kert sz (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium’s history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works…. [more below]
- Author: Kertész, André
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393066568
- Language: English
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The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series
$39.99 Read moreThe 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 #16
- Author: Jordan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0765314614
- Language: English
