Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women: Serving Tea with a Side of ScornJane Austen always knows just what to say!Why waste time inventing your own insults when you can borrow topnotch snipes from a literary genius? With The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women, you can clap back at bad dates, micromanaging bosses, irritating strangers,...
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A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925-2025Edited by the magazine's poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin,...
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The Life of Violet: Three Early StoriesVirginia Woolf's first fully realized work of fiction--published in its final, revised form for the first time A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical "cottage of one's own," battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies...
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Autobiography of Death*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before...
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Inhabit the Poem: Last EssaysIn 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a...
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The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm JonesDostoevsky's greatest novel is a story of murder told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky's final novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between a larger-than-life father...
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Animal StoriesFrom a writer who has "invented a new form" (Annie Ernaux), an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals.Animal Stories begins with Kate Zambreno's visit to the monkey house at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: EssaysBeautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is...
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Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror's Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by WomenDiscover the Scream Queens of Must-Read Horror Bram Stoker Awards(R) winning author Sadie "Mother Horror" Hartmann has curated the ultimate collection of recommendations from the leading ladies of horror! From classic authors such as Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson, and Daphne du Maurier to the...
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Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain EnglishRead Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts...
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female DetectiveA revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensationShortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2025 From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people...
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The Master of GoFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenger that serves as a suspenseful elegy for an entire society. Go...
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street"A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in touch with mankind." --New York TimesNewly reissued with an introduction by Plum Sykes, this cult favorite is a delightful diary--think Nancy Mitford-meets-Nora Ephron--chronicling author Helene Hanff's "bucket list" trip to London...
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The Cripple of InishmaanIn 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning...
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The Complete Works of NietzscheThis is a complete collection of all the novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy, Ecce Homo, Human All Too Human,...
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Life Is a DreamThe masterwork of Spain's preeminent dramatist--now in a new verse translationLife Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending...
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Dorothy Parker in HollywoodAn expansive, illuminating, and "welcome addition to understand" (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood--from the author of the "fascinating" (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting...
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The World's Greatest Left-Handers: Why Left-Handers are Just Plain Better Than Everybody ElseFrom Buzz Aldren to Queen Victoria, the fascinating foibles of the sinister set.Author: Sandy Huffaker,James Tertius de KayPublisher: M. Evans and CompanyPublished: 02/15/1985Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.20h x 7.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9780871314499
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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply ExplainedLearn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Literature in...
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1920-1924The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one remarkable woman" (Christian Science Monitor). Edited by Anne Olivier...
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