Literary Criticism
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The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Child That Books Built, this extended love letter to children’s books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school.
Reading- Author: Spufford, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 213
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421842
- Language: English
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Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition
$57.99 Add to cartThis classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electro
- Series: New Accents
- Author: Ong, Walter J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0415538386
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Political Life
$45.00 Add to cartA major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings
The young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he- Author: Callanan, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691227977
- Language: English
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Sinclair Lewis: The 1920s and the Shaping of American Identity
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Agran, Edward Gale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0881469963
- Language: English
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A History of Horror, Fear, and the Uncanny
$35.00 Add to cartTake a step – if you dare – into the shadows, and discover the blood-curdling history of horror across the world in this gruesomely illustrated title.
A History of Horror, Fear and the Uncanny explore- Series: DK a History of
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217134281
- Language: English
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The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
$28.00 Read moreAn essential collection of nonfiction essays by the National Book Award winning author of J R and A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those work- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002380
- Language: English
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
$29.00 Add to cartA fascinating, first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King–all conducted by the first scholar to be given … [more below]
- Author: Bicks, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593736729
- Language: English
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I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol. 3 (Novel)
$16.00 Add to cartHooray! I, Alicia Williams, am finally being exiled! Though Duke has been daringly forward with his displays of affection, suddenly his interest in me vanishes. Something made him lose his memories, b… [more below]
- Series: I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History #3
- Author: Okido, Izumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855407150
- Language: English
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Daughter of Mother-Of-Pearl
$18.00 Add to cartMollusks’ innermost selves are absolute secrets because, not only do they hide in shells or distant habitats, but also that’s just how it is with innermost selves.
Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl collects- Author: Wong, Mandy-Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1644453738
- Language: English
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The Sonnets
$20.00 Add to cartThe complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century–in English and Spanish
This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of on… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106015
- Language: English
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Titus Andronicus: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$9.99 Add to cart‘Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
In Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, the Roman general Titus incurs the wrath of the Queen of the
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0198875053
- Language: English
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Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest
$24.95 Add to cartHow do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology… [more below]
- Author: Oler, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088972
- Language: English
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Poetry for Dummies
$26.99 Add to cart- Author: Timpane, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1394375557
- Language: English
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Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World
$29.99 Add to cartFor thirty years Anne Enright–one of our greatest living novelists (Times)–has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifti
- Author: Enright, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 132412413X
- Language: English
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Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading
$18.00 Add to cartThe heyday of reading is probably behind us, but in these shrewd and witty essays Brooke Allen examines the relics of the saints (and sinners) who made it what it was. Focused as much on literary live
- Author: Allen, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1966218125
- Language: English
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The Image of Her
$25.00 Add to cartSimone de Beauvoir’s gripping classic of a woman striving for perfection
Laurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features the trappings of 1960s Parisian bourgeoisie: money, a- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Beauvoir, Simone De
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0300287178
- Language: English
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Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom
$26.00 Add to cartIn this part-memoir, part-manifesto, an acclaimed poet interprets Black radical literary traditions to reimagine freedom through refusal.
“An incisive and rigorous assessment of how people arrive with- Author: Felix, Camonghne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593242149
- Language: English
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Utopia
$11.99 Add to cart‘To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and hard thing.’
Thomas More’s Utopia presents an account of an idealised fictional society that has fascinated readers s- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 07 2025
- ISBN10: 019886020X
- Language: English
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Kahlil Gibran Classics Collection: The Prophet, The Madman, Sand and Foam, The Broken Wings, A Tear and a Smile, Twenty Drawings, The Forerunner & Spi
$39.99 Add to cartA priceless collection of Kahlil Gibran most notable works including 37 original illustrations. Books included in this collection:
- The Prophet
- The Madman
- Sand and Foam
- The Broken Wings
- A Tear and a Smile
- T
- Author: Gibran, Kahlil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9355227264
- Language: English
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The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics
$24.00 Add to cartWhat do you do when you realize that the books you were taught to revere imbued you with false perspectives on humanity, society, and morals?
This is the question editor and journalist Rebecca Bratte- Author: Bratten Weiss, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1626986428
- Language: English
