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By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review By Pamela Paul (Editor), Scott Turow (Foreword by) Cover Image
By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review (Paperback) By Pamela Paul (Editor), Scott Turow (Foreword by) $20.00
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El Libro de la literatura (The Literature Book) (DK Big Ideas) By DK Cover Image
El Libro de la literatura (The Literature Book) (DK Big Ideas) (Hardcover) By DK $27.99
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Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories By Angus Fletcher Cover Image
Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories (Paperback) By Angus Fletcher $19.99
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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson By Camille Paglia Cover Image
Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Paperback) By Camille Paglia $23.00
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The Novel, Who Needs It? By Joseph Epstein Cover Image
The Novel, Who Needs It? (Hardcover) By Joseph Epstein $25.99
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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) By DK Cover Image
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) (Paperback) By DK $19.99 Email or call for price
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature By Angus Fletcher Cover Image
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature (Hardcover) By Angus Fletcher $30.00 Email or call for price
Everybody: A Book about Freedom By Olivia Laing Cover Image
Everybody: A Book about Freedom (Paperback) By Olivia Laing $17.95
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The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka By Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach (Editor), Shelley Frisch (Translator) Cover Image
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka (Hardcover) By Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach (Editor), Shelley Frisch (Translator) $24.95
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The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka By Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach (Editor), Shelley Frisch (Translator) Cover Image
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka (Paperback) By Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach (Editor), Shelley Frisch (Translator) $17.95
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism By Octavio Paz Cover Image
The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism (Paperback) By Octavio Paz $16.99
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Appropriate: A Provocation By Paisley Rekdal Cover Image
Appropriate: A Provocation (Paperback) By Paisley Rekdal $15.95
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Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us? By David Mason Cover Image
Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us? (Paperback) By David Mason $19.95
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The Believer Issue 141: Spring 2023 By Daniel Gumbiner (Editor), Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits Cover Image
The Believer Issue 141: Spring 2023 (Paperback) By Daniel Gumbiner (Editor), Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits $16.00
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The Believer Issue 142: Summer2023 By Daniel Gumbiner (Editor), Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits Cover Image
The Believer Issue 142: Summer2023 (Paperback) By Daniel Gumbiner (Editor), Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits $16.00
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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) By DK Cover Image
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) (Hardcover) By DK $25.00 Email or call for price
Literary Cats By Judith Robinson, Scott Pack Cover Image
Literary Cats (Hardcover) By Judith Robinson, Scott Pack $25.00
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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: From Their Origins Through the Nineteenth Century (New World Studies) By Earl E. Fitz Cover Image
The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: From Their Origins Through the Nineteenth Century (New World Studies) (Paperback) By Earl E. Fitz $44.16
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A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety By Donald Hall Cover Image
A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety (Paperback) By Donald Hall $15.99
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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth By A. O. Scott Cover Image
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth (Paperback) By A. O. Scott $18.00
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Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century By Patrick R. O'Malley Cover Image
Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback) By Patrick R. O'Malley $44.16
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Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas (New World Studies) By Charlie D. Hankin Cover Image
Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas (New World Studies) (Paperback) By Charlie D. Hankin $44.80
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Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch: 7., Durchgesehene Und Verbesserte Auflage. By Rudolf Schützeichel Cover Image
Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch: 7., Durchgesehene Und Verbesserte Auflage. (Paperback) By Rudolf Schützeichel $23.97 Email or call for price
Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America By Matthew Goldmark Cover Image
Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America (Paperback) By Matthew Goldmark $48.00
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The Believer Issue 140: Fall 2022/Winter 2023 By Daniel Gumbiner (Editor), Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits Cover Image
The Believer Issue 140: Fall 2022/Winter 2023 (Paperback) By Daniel Gumbiner (Editor), Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits $16.00
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Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde By Kristian Williams, Alan Moore (Foreword by) Cover Image
Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde (Paperback) By Kristian Williams, Alan Moore (Foreword by) $18.00
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Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974 By Dianne C. Luce Cover Image
Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974 (Paperback) By Dianne C. Luce $44.09
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Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime (Cultural Frames) By Molly Slavin Cover Image
Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime (Cultural Frames) (Paperback) By Molly Slavin $41.60
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No Judgment: Essays By Lauren Oyler Cover Image
No Judgment: Essays (Hardcover) By Lauren Oyler $28.99
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction By Lee Gutkind Cover Image
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction (Hardcover) By Lee Gutkind $35.00
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Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague By Samuel Weber Cover Image
Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague (Hardcover) By Samuel Weber $29.95
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Payback (CBC Massey Lectures) By Margaret Atwood Cover Image
Payback (CBC Massey Lectures) (Paperback) By Margaret Atwood $15.95
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Papaya Journal By Speedy Publishing LLC Cover Image
Papaya Journal (Paperback) By Speedy Publishing LLC $15.99
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Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: From Their Origins Through the Nineteenth Century (New World Studies) By Earl E. Fitz Cover Image
Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: From Their Origins Through the Nineteenth Century (New World Studies) (Hardcover) By Earl E. Fitz $147.20
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See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary By Lorrie Moore Cover Image
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary (Paperback) By Lorrie Moore $17.00
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The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums By Nicola J. Watson Cover Image
The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums (Paperback) By Nicola J. Watson $31.50
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Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas (New World Studies) By Charlie D. Hankin Cover Image
Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas (New World Studies) (Hardcover) By Charlie D. Hankin $147.20
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom By Olivia Laing Cover Image
Everybody: A Book about Freedom (Hardcover) By Olivia Laing $26.95
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Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century By Patrick R. O'Malley Cover Image
Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover) By Patrick R. O'Malley $153.60
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Key Concepts in Victorian Studies (Key Concepts in Literature) By William Hughes Cover Image
Key Concepts in Victorian Studies (Key Concepts in Literature) (Paperback) By William Hughes $25.14 Email or call for price
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews By Geoff Dyer Cover Image
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (Paperback) By Geoff Dyer $18.00 Email or call for price
The Power of the Story: Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean (Catastrophes in Context #6) By Vincent Joos (Editor), Martin Munro (Editor), John Ribó (Editor) Cover Image
The Power of the Story: Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean (Catastrophes in Context #6) (Hardcover) By Vincent Joos (Editor), Martin Munro (Editor), John Ribó (Editor) $170.10
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Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture By Catherine M. Roach Cover Image
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture (Paperback) By Catherine M. Roach $20.34
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Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age (Cultural Frames) By Helga Lenart-Cheng Cover Image
Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age (Cultural Frames) (Paperback) By Helga Lenart-Cheng $41.60
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There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness By M. Leona Godin Cover Image
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness (Paperback) By M. Leona Godin $18.00 Email or call for price
Imagining Autism: Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum By Sonya Freeman Loftis Cover Image
Imagining Autism: Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum (Hardcover) By Sonya Freeman Loftis $16.95
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A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety By Donald Hall Cover Image
A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety (Hardcover) By Donald Hall $27.25 Email or call for price
The Hedgehog Review Reader: Two Decades of Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture By Jay Tolson (Editor), James Davison Hunter (Preface by) Cover Image
The Hedgehog Review Reader: Two Decades of Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture (Hardcover) By Jay Tolson (Editor), James Davison Hunter (Preface by) $44.80
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