Literature
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The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
$15.95 Read moreThe social function of the creative personality is a recurrent theme with Henry Miller, and this book is perhaps his most poignant and concentrated analysis of the artist’s dilemma.
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 1962
- ISBN10: 0811201155
- Language: English
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Helen in Egypt: Poetry
$22.95 Read moreA fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem…. [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 1974
- ISBN10: 0811205444
- Language: English
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ABC of Reading
$15.95 Read moreThis important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly s… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1186
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218937
- Language: English
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Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
$19.95 Read more“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio C… [more below]
- Author: Cortázar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0811225348
- Language: English
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The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work
$18.00 Read moreFew have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram n Jim nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In th
- Author: Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0983322007
- Language: English
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They Got to You Too
$17.00 Read moreWinner of the Sharjah Int’l Book Fair Best International Fiction Award 2022
Hans van Rooyen is a former police general raised by two women who survived the 1899 South African War. He finds himself bei- Author: Ntshingila, Futhi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717418
- Language: English
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The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City
$26.60 Read more- Author: Van Parys, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 069124796X
- Language: English
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Patricia Highsmith’s Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950
$22.00 Read moreBefore Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and b… [more below]
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092947
- Language: English
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Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels
$17.99 Read moreTake a dashing hero with a heart of gold and a mullet of awesome. Add a heroine with a bustle and the will to kick major butt. Then include enough contrivances to keep them fighting while getting them
- Author: Wendell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1402254490
- Language: English
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The Moonstone
$17.99 Read moreDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high q
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1509850902
- Language: English
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The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination
$15.00 Read moreThe award-winning poet Carl Phillips’s invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writing
In seven insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditate- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1555976816
- Language: English
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Uncollected Works: Oscar Acosta
$14.95 Read moreThis milestone collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and writer, between the e… [more below]
- Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1558850996
- Language: English
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The Black Spider
$15.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of th- Author: Gotthelf, Jeremias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1590176685
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$10.00 Read moreFour women, with very different backgrounds and characters – the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester – respond to an adve
- Series: Evergreens
- Author: Armin, Elizabeth Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1847497217
- Language: English
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
$18.95 Read moreThe PEN Award-winning essay collection about queer lives: “Gorgeously punk-rock rebellious.”–The A.V. Club
The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcohol
- Author: Tea, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1936932180
- Language: English
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The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991: Journals 1976-1991
$24.95 Read moreThe Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert’s journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself — a m… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1937658228
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$12.99 Read moreLittle treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury … [more below]
- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1839641819
- Language: English
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Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
$18.95 Add to cartBlack artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future.
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Ana- Series: Undercurrents
- Author: Duplan, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1939568323
- Language: English
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Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond
$17.00 Read more“A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country–these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love’s complexity.” –Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp fo
- Author: Marcus, Halimah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0063009250
- Language: English
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Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
$18.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bish
- Author: Hingston, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964154
- Language: English
