Literature
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Studs Lonigan
$25.00 Add to cartCollected here in one volume is James T. Farrell’s renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In thi… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Farrell, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141186739
- Language: English
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Representations of the Intellectual
$19.00 Add to cartIn these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today.
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761276
- 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
$8.95 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 House of the Seven Gables
$5.95 Add to cartThis enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family,- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531620
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
$27.00 Add to cart- 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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Alicia: Edición Completa
$18.95 Read moreLewis Carroll es un referente indiscutible de la literatura universal. Uni su afici n a la literatura con sus conocimientos como profesor de matem ticas para ponerlos al servicio de su obra, salpic n… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Carrol, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8418008172
- Language: Spanish
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Dead Souls: A Poem
$13.95 Add to cartGogol’s tale of a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man is the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554668
- Language: English
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The Thin Red Line
$18.00 Add to cartThey are the men of C-for-Charlie company–“Mad” 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozens more just like them–infantrymen who are about … [more below]
- Author: Jones, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 09 1998
- ISBN10: 0385324081
- Language: English
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The Groundings with My Brothers
$21.95 Add to cart“I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together.” – Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney e- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1788731158
- 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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The Well of Loneliness
$19.99 Read moreStephen Gordon was a little girl who always felt different. A talent for sports, a hatred of dresses, and a preference for horses and solitude were not considered appropriate for a young lady of the V… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Hall, Radclyffe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1784870323
- Language: English
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The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century
$19.95 Add to cartIf a serpent swallows the spittle of a fasting man, it dies. Trees felled in the wrong season breed termites. If eels are drowned in wine, those who drink it get a loathing for liquor.
These and simil… [more below]- Author: White, T. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0486246094
- Language: English
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Stories and Texts for Nothing
$18.00 Add to cartThis volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett… [more below]
- Series: Beckett, Samuel
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150624
- Language: English
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The Haunted Hotel: Annotated Edition
$11.00 Read moreThe Haunted Hotel is a disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra mater
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1847498396
- Language: English
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Tales of the Elders of Ireland
$14.95 Add to cartTales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish Acallam na Sen?ach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dooley, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549850
- 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 Portable Beat Reader
$24.00 Add to cartBeginning in the late 1940’s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was “beat.” Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the America
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437530
- Language: English
