Literature
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The Antiquary
$15.95 Add to cartThe Antiquary, Scott’s personal favorite among his novels, is characteristically wry and urbane. A mysterious young man calling himself ‘Lovel’ travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seaside t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555710
- Language: English
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Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, the Bear
$16.95 Read more“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” –William Faulkner
These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0307946754
- Language: English
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The Sea-Wolf
$9.00 Read moreHailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental confl
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 1999
- ISBN10: 0486411087
- Language: English
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
$13.00 Add to cartEdited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rog t,” and “The Purloined Letter”
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented th… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 23 2006
- ISBN10: 0679643427
- Language: English
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Nicholas Nickleby: Introduction by John Carey
$36.00 Read moreCharles Dickens had an understanding of mid-Victorian society second to none, and genius and energy massive enough to make the absurdities and terrors of that society come alive on the page. Nicholas
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 914
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0679423079
- Language: English
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The Parasite: Volume 1
$19.95 Add to cartInfluential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pe
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #1
- Author: Serres, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0816648816
- Language: English
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Apples on a Windowsill
$20.95 Read moreApples on a Windowsill is a series of meditations on still life, photography, beauty, and marriage. Full of personal reflections, charming anecdotes, and the history behind the art of still lifes, thi
- Author: Lemay, Shawna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1990293662
- Language: English
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Novela de Ajedrez
$11.95 Read moreWith no capacity for any other intellectual activity, Mirko Czentovicz revealed himself as a world champion chess genius. But, on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires, he is presented with an eni… [more below]
- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 8495359456
- Language: Spanish
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Canción de Navidad Y Otros Cuentos
$12.95 Read moreEL LIBRO MÁS GENUINO SOBRE LA NAVIDAD.
La identificación de Dickens (1812-1870) con la Navidad es tal que en alguna ocasión se ha llegado a decir que Dickens inventó la Navidad tal y como la imagin
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 6070793838
- Language: Spanish
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Beyond Shattered Glass: Voices from the Aftermath of the Beirut Explosion
$20.00 Read more- Author: Saab, Zeina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717477
- Language: English
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Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare
$38.00 Add to cartFrom one of the twentieth century’s most enduringly popular fiction writers: the only hardcover edition of his short stories.
Though W. Somerset Maugham was also famous for his novels and plays, it ha
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Maugham, W. Somerset
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: July 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400042534
- Language: English
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Cuerpo, El
$31.95 Read moreThe body is the central building of the dazzling Blinder trilogy. An overwhelming, hallucinatory, kaleidoscopic and intellectually subversive book that marks a before and after in the history of Europ… [more below]
- Author: Cartarescu, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 841755355X
- Language: Spanish
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Three Men in a Boat
$14.99 Read moreThree Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics wit- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1529024013
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$17.99 Read moreIn one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Charles Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successf
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1509825398
- Language: English
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
$16.00 Read moreA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine
White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of- Author: Row, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1555978320
- Language: English
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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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Leavetakings: Essays
$20.95 Add to cartLeavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About he… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Literary
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1602234248
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-26 (Loa #353)
$35.00 Read moreLibrary of America’s authoritative Fitzgerald edition continues with his greatest masterpiece and best story collection of stories in newly edited texts
This long-awaited second volume of Library of A- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 756
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537148
- Language: English
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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
$24.00 Read moreA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in p- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450445
- Language: English
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One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art
$26.95 Read moreA selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by auth
- Author: Cirino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927130
- Language: English
