Literary Criticism

22622 books

$19.42

Report copyright infringementby Sidney Lee (Author)"A Life of William Shakespeare" by Sidney Lee is a comprehensive biography of the legendary playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Published in 1898, this book delves into the life and times of Shakespeare, exploring his upbringing, education, family life, career, and enduring legacy. Sidney Lee, a renowned literary critic and biographer, meticulously researched Shakespeare's life, drawing on historical documents, records, and literary work...

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

$35.00

Report copyright infringementby Leo Damrosch (Author)From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction "Damrosch brings to Stevenson's life the calm, humane interpretive powers that he deployed with such success in . . . The Club. . . . [An] excellent book."--Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal "This magnificent biography of Robert Louis Stevenson reveals much about a writer that we think we ...

Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time: Essays and Selected Poems

$37.80

Report copyright infringementby Victoria Aarons (Editor), Holli G. Levitsky (Editor), Hilene Flanzbaum (Editor)This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historical rupture of the Holocaust and World War II.Author BiographyVictoria Aarons is distinguished professor of literature at Trinity University where she teaches courses on American Jewi...

$21.60

Report copyright infringementby J. Andrew Deman (Author)Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel Comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the verge of cancellation to one of the most popular comics for over a decade and, eventually, a multibillion-dollar film franchise. While Claremont's influence on popular culture is becoming more widely recognized, this volume offers an in-depth ...

$198.00

Report copyright infringementby Kemeshia Randle Swanson (Editor)Jesmyn Ward (b. 1977) is arguably one of today's most important authors. Although often compared to William Faulkner, Ward and her writings have done anything but live in that shadow since the 2008 debut of her first novel Where the Line Bleeds. She has produced four novels and a memoir that are equally harrowing and heartening, and she is the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Boo...

$39.00

Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Bishop (Author), Robert Giroux (Editor)From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux has selected over five hundred and has written a detailed and informative introduction. One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, displaying to the full the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, r...

$18.70

Report copyright infringementby Steve Todd (Author)In 1988, Steve Todd served a successful church mission to San Bernardino, California, where he found his true calling--a love for people and sales. In his latest work, Steve shows how trusting God helped him grow in faith, and ultimately led him to achieve his dreams helping others achieve their own salvation. Now a successful sales executive, Steve can attest that, with a simple testimony of Jesus Christ, and unwavering faith in God, we can ...

New Orleans: A Writer's City - Hardcover

$24.95

by T. R. Johnson (Author)The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town - Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles - to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related wa...

$17.95

Report copyright infringementby Cori Winrock (Author)"In the city where I was born there is a collective of women taking apart donated wedding dresses. Seam ripping and taking off lace, uprooting stitches and unstringing beads--one by one by hand in their spare time."A collective of women gathers to painstakingly turn wedding dresses into burial garments for infants. "Like many collectives whose existence and skills might seem unfathomable, most of us won't know about them until there is a ne...

Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty: A Literary Ambassador between East and West

$154.44

Report copyright infringementby Horst-Jürgen Gerigk (Other), Rosina Neginsky (Author)In this book, Zinaida Afanasievna Vengerova, a once famous literary critic, whose importance for the turn of the century European intellectual world is no longer sufficiently appreciated, receives her first full length systematic study. Her intellectual exploration at the turn of the 19th century brought her into contact with Symbolist ideas from several European countries, and she used her profound understan...

$22.88

Report copyright infringementby Erna Kaluza (Author), (with A. Chapter Les Kaluza) (Author)Merriam Press Memoir. A collection of Erna Kaluza's writings, including poetry, short stories and essays, illustrated with photos of her and husband Les on trips throughout the world. She and Les worked on many cartoon series including for Hanna-Barbera and other studios. Also included is a chapter of Les' stories and cartoons. 115 photos and illustrations. Number of Pages: 218 ...

The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

$26.95

Report copyright infringementby Hans Christian Andersen (Author), Naomi Lewis (Introduction by), A. Renowned Andersen Scholar (Contribution by)Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he wrote. Number of Pages: 610 Dimensions: 1.33 x 8.53 x 5.58 IN Publication Date: September 25, 2000

$17.95

by Ayşeg?l Savaş (Author)A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşeg?l Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to surround the mother. "In Turkish, we speak of extracting the forty days, like a sort of exorcism. My grandmothers assure me that it will all get better after forty days are out." A friend lends a book that sug...

Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality - Hardcover

$27.00

by Lyta Gold (Author)In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold traces arguments both historical and contemporary that have labeled fiction as dark, immoral, frightening, or poisonous. Within each she ask...

$27.34

Report copyright infringementby Marian Dautel (Author)An illustrated guide to help in understanding each of the Ten Commandments which are found in The Holy Bible. Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.25 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 12, 2025

The North Country Wedding, And The Fire: Two Poems, In Blank Verse (1722) - Paperback

$30.17

by Nicholas Brown (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 20 Dimensions: 0.05 x 11 x 8.5 IN...

$83.70

Report copyright infringementby Raffaello Borghini (Author), Lloyd Ellis Jr (Translator)Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation of the art gossip that was a feature of the Medici Grand Ducal court, Borghini's treatise puts forth simple cr...

$19.99

Report copyright infringementby Quentin Blake (Author), Quentin Blake (Illustrator)Savor the work of the well-loved and lauded illustrator Quentin Blake in this keepsake collection of fun, quirky drawings that will delight both longtime devotees and emerging young fans. A chef in mid-fall, balancing a towering, toppling cake. A bespectacled gentleman riding a multi-wheeled bike, with a man on his back juggling eggs. Known for their whimsy and wit and uncanny ability to convey worlds of expre...

What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution

$61.11

Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Lipking (Author)The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then, arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as rational thought played a critical role in creating new visi...

Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends

$17.95

Report copyright infringementby Richard Wolinsky (Editor)In these highly-candid radio interviews, more than fifty legendary, larger-than-life personalities trade anecdotes about the Golden Age of science fiction. Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Fritz Leiber, Frank Herbert, Frank Kelly Freas, and many more, depict the wild personalities, sparks of contention, and vivid imagination that made science fiction thrive. "Amazing, astounding,...

The Faithful Imagination: Papers from the 2018 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends

$56.34

Report copyright infringementby Joe Ricke (Editor), Ashley Chu (Editor)From May 31 to June 3, 2018, the 11th biennial Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends convened at Taylor University to consider "The Faithful Imagination." This volume focuses on the roots and shoots of authors who linked the imaginative life with faithfulness to truth. From considerations of the philosophical/theological roots of the imagination as theorized in Coleridge and MacDonald, the essays branch out to look at the...

Ambiguous Locks: An Iconology of Hair in Medieval Art and Literature

$81.00

Report copyright infringementby Roberta Milliken (Author) It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair has remained an important cultural symbol of femininity. In medieval art, iconic images of long, flowing locks can express sexuality, and the cutting of a woman's hair often signals her feminine misbehavior. Artists of all kinds in the Middle Ages used women's long hair to manipulate their audience's estimation of their female figures. Thi...

Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington - Hardcover

$20.00

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Peter Washington (Editor)Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: ...

$20.00

by Marcel Proust (Author), Richard Howard (Introduction by), C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins. For this authoritative English-la...

$17.00

by Claire Dederer (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?"A lively, personal exploration of how one might think about the art of those who do bad things" --Vanity Fair - "[Dederer] breaks new ground, ...

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare - Paperback

$19.00

by Ken Ludwig (Author)Winner of the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book, How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare is a foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare by Tony-Award winning playwright, Ken Ludwig. To know some Shakespeare provides a head start in life. His plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poems, and films in the ...

Japanese Tales from Times Past: Stories of Fantasy and Folklore from the Konjaku Monogatari Shu (90 Stories Included) - Paperback

$19.99

by Naoshi Koriyama (Translator), Bruce Allen (Translator), Karen Thornber (Foreword by)This collection of newly translated tales is selected from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the Konjaku Monogatari Shu. This collection of traditional Japanese folklore is akin to the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer or Dante's Inferno--powerfully entertaining tales that reveal striking aspects of the cultural psychology, fantasy, and creativity of medieval Japan--tales that still re...

$15.95

by Audre Lorde (Author)Rich continues: Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America, beyond the North American earth, to Abomey and the Dahomeyan Amazons. These are poems nourished ...

Orwell: Essays: Introduction by John Carey - Hardcover

$50.00

by George Orwell (Author), John Carey (Introduction by), John Carey (Selected by)A generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the da...

Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies - Hardcover

$179.55

by Natalie Prizel (Author)Victorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others? Looking would seem to necessarily lead to interpretation and judgment, but this book shows how Victorian artists and authors imagined other ethical and optical relations. In an era in which aberrant, deformed, and disabled bodies proliferated--particularly those b...

Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

$7.99

by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Read 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 the words into everyday language A complete list of characters, with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary Author BiographyWILLIAM SHAKES...

$20.00

by Jacqueline Susann (Author)The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture Classic The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design - introduction by Simon Doonan - never-before-seen archival material - an essay from Jackie, "My Book Is Not Dirty " At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer become best friends as struggling young women in New York City tryi...