Literature
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My Life as Edgar
$18.00 Read moreA sensitive portrait of one boy’s travels from earliest consciousness through his salad days in the countryside and onward by a “genius” of “nuanced interior moments” (Los Angeles Times)
Fabre’s abili- Author: Fabre, Dominique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861482
- Language: English
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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
$15.00 Read moreIn The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young’s sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness gu
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Young, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1555975623
- Language: English
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When the Sick Rule the World
$17.95 Read moreA writer takes on subjects as varied as vomit, Kathy Acker’s wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, in lyric explorations of illness, health, and the body.
A moving meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Si
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Bellamy, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1584351683
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$18.95 Add to cartA recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed.
The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 1590172256
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound
$16.95 Read morePrometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows … [more below]
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1590178602
- Language: English
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic
$12.95 Read moreA compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and more
In the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson’s prose- Series: Library of America
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1598530844
- Language: English
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Romeo and Juliet
$9.99 Add to cartEdited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
Romeo and Juliet is the world’s most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2000
- ISBN10: 1840224339
- Language: English
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
$10.00 Read moreOriginally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice’s encounters with
- Series: Alma Junior Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1847494072
- Language: English
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Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures
$14.95 Read moreIn her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, … [more below]
- Author: Goodison, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1912408139
- Language: English
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North and South
$9.99 Read moreWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull.
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author’s first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the hero
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 1993
- ISBN10: 1853260932
- Language: English
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Limber
$17.95 Read more“What a strange and unexpected treasure chest this is, filled with all manner of quirky revelations, all about the mundane sublime and the ineffable extraordinary. Most extraordinary of all, perhaps,
- Author: Pelster, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1936747758
- Language: English
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The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse
$25.00 Read moreA wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry–itself written entirely in verse
“Reading this book, you get to know poetry from the inside, without the alienating or distr- Author: Newlyn, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0300251912
- Language: English
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Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
$16.95 Read moreJenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood … [more below]
- Author: Erpenbeck, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229327
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Seasons Edition–Spring)
$34.99 Read moreA fine exclusive edition of one of literature’s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. No more than
- Series: Seasons Edition
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0785239758
- Language: English
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Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick
$36.00 Read moreAlthough Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing–or even a novel of the sea. Yet Puli… [more below]
- Author: King, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2021
- ISBN10: 022678987X
- Language: English
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El Extranjero / The Stranger
$19.95 Read more«Hoy, mam? ha muerto. O tal vez ayer, no s?.
Publicada originalmente en 1942, El extranjero es la primera novela de Albert Camus y una de sus obras m?s emblem?ticas. Ahora con nueva traducci?n- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 8439737939
- Language: Spanish
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Emma
$10.99 Read moreDive into a world of romance, village life, and even a little silliness in Jane Austen’s timeless novel.
Despite the fact that Jane Austen set out to write a story with a heroine whom she said that “- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0785840028
- Language: English
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Literature for a Changing Planet
$31.58 Read moreWhy we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe
Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddl- Series: Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture #1
- Author: Puchner, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691213755
- Language: English
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Rays
$10.99 Read moreFrom flightless, long-legged ostriches to winged rays, and from elusive, long-tailed snow leopards to wily foxes, the world of animals is wonderfully diverse. This popular and newly expanded series co… [more below]
- Series: Amazing Animals
- Author: Bodden, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1682770672
- Language: English
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The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba
$17.00 Read moreTeeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel ﾁlvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in L
- Author: Álvarez, Carlos Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450909
- Language: English
