Literary Criticism
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Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham
$32.95 Read moreA micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love-hate relationship with New York City.
By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Love- Author: Goodwin, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504418
- Language: English
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
$17.95 Read moreThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022027
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
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Dialogues and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAlain de Botton’s bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy–later made into a six-part TV series–has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offer… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552401
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
$25.00 Read moreBecoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpubli… [more below]
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Butler, Virginia McGee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844742
- Language: English
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Catching Fire: A Translation Diary
$15.95 Read moreAn energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.
In Catching Fire, the translation of Diamela Eltit’s Never Did the Fire unfolds in
- Series: Untranslated
- Author: Hahn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1913867250
- Language: English
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
$32.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0374607168
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
$17.00 Add to cartCollected together, two of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater, remarkable not only for their historical value but for their continued ability to engage the imagination … [more below]
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 1995
- ISBN10: 0679755314
- Language: English
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Only a Voice: Essays
$29.95 Read moreEssays on politics, power, and culture from one of America’s most eminent critics
In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity’s promise of progress and the sobering reality- Author: Scialabba, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292001
- Language: English
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Frodo’s Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of the Lord of the Rings
$19.95 Read moreJ. R. R. Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings, has been beloved for generations, selling millions of copies and selling millions more tickets through its award-winning film adaptations. The im… [more below]
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1618906755
- Language: English
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth
$65.00 Add to cartThe range of J. R. R. Tolkien’s talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but als… [more below]
- Author: McIlwaine, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1851244859
- Language: English
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Autoportrait
$20.00 Read moreNominated for the Chicago Review of Books Award
A work of unflinching honesty, Autoportrait is a hypnotic memoir of reflection, loss, and everyday joy from one of America’s best contemporary novelists- Author: Ball, Jesse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221389
- Language: English
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Looking Backward 2000-1887
$12.95 Add to cartJulian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic soc… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Bellamy, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552576
- Language: English
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Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on Tolkien
$29.95 Add to cartA major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship
With the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien’s
- Author: Flieger, Verlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1606350943
- Language: English
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Fifty-Two Stories
$19.00 Read moreFrom the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.
Anton Chekhov l- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0525562389
- Language: English
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Letters from Tove
$19.95 Read moreA virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1517910102
- Language: English
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Mushroom
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Rich, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1501386581
- Language: English
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The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
$21.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, characters, symbols, and places. Seven essays… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Quick Reference
- Author: Lupack, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 019921509X
- Language: English
