Literature, Poetry & Plays.
The Hour Before Dawn: Poems of love and losing
$18.33 USD
Abdullah Abu-Sheikh is a 22-year-old award-winning Jordanian entrepreneur. Upon graduating from Dalhousie University in Canada, Abu-Sheikh immersed himself in the business world and became one of the youngest successful leaders...
The House on Mango Street
$21.15 USD
– Sold Outby : Sandra Cisneros (Author)
The Humanist Comedy
$12.69 USD
by : Alexander Welsh For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes,...
The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics)
$21.15 USD
– Sold Outby : Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author), Alan Myers (Translator), William Leatherbarrow (Introduction
The Interpretation of Mycenaean Greek Texts (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints)
$14.10 USD
by : L. R. Palmer Intended as an introduction to the information contained in the Linear B texts from Mycenaean sites and addressed to the non-specialist, this book provides a...
The Island of Sheep (Wordsworth Classics)
$7.05 USD
In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented...
The Jump Artist
$8.46 USD
by: Austin Ratner A beautifully scrupulous, intricately detailed novel about joy and despair, anti-Semitism and assimilation, and like a great photograph, it seems to miss nothing, and to catch its...
The King's Pardon for Homicide before AD 1307
$14.10 USD
by : Naomi D. Hurnard This study seeks to explain why the man who committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence needed a pardon. It examines the working of the...
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
$21.15 USD
by : Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma (Author, Preface), Archana Venkatesan (Introduction),
The Life and Times of Abū Tammām (Library of Arabic Literature, 59)
$31.02 USD
by : Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī (Author), Beatrice Gruendler (Translator)
The Life and Times of Abū Tammām (Library of Arabic Literature, 59)
$18.33 USD
by : Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī (Author), Beatrice Gruendler (Translator)
The Love Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili (V)
$23.97 USD
– Sold Outby : Rumi (Author), Nader Khalili (Translator)
The Mayor of Casterbridge
$7.05 USD
N one of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than the Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardys Wessex, the partly real, partly dream country...
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800
$28.20 USD
By: Steven Moore In the acclaimed first volume of his history of the world's most popular literary form, Steven Moore unearthed and told the stories of remarkable works of fiction that...
The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics (Historical Materialism)
$18.33 USD
by : Daniel Hartley (Author)
The Practice of Reading
$11.28 USD
– Sold Outby : Denis Donoghue This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Wordsworth Classics)
$7.05 USD
In the 1920s the eminent French novelist and critic André Gide was given a copy of James Hogg's neglected masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and...
The Prophets, a Poetic Journey from Childhood to Prophecy
$4.23 USD
by : Fathieh Saudi and Hana Saudi
The Return of the Native (Wordsworth Classics)
$7.05 USD
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In this novel, Hardy's...
The Secret Message of Jules Verne: Decoding His Masonic,
$11.28 USD
by : Michel Lamy An exploration of how Jules Verne used his writings to encrypt important Masonic and Rosicrucian secrets and sacred symbolism • Investigates Verne’s connections to the prominent secret...
The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience
$14.10 USD
by : Robert Tindall Reveals the striking parallels between indigenous cultures of the Americas and the ancient Homeric world as well as Tolkien’s Middle Earth • Explores the shamanic use...
The Shippe of Safegarde (1569) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
$14.10 USD
by : Barnabe Googe
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Free
– Sold Outby : ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī (Author), Luke Yarbrough (Translator)
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt (Library of Arabic Literature, 38)
$28.20 USD
by : ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī (Author), Luke Yarbrough (Translator)
The Three Hostages (Wordsworth Classics)
$7.05 USD
Following the end of the First World War Richard Hannay, the hero of John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle and Mr Standfast, has retired to the Cotswolds with his wife...
The Tragic History of La Pucelle of Domremy, Otherwise Known as the Maid of Orleans
$11.28 USD
by : Fronton Du Duc (Translation: Richard Hillman)
The Troad: An Archaeological and Topographical Study
$16.92 USD
By: J.M.Cook
The Trumpet Major (Wordsworth Classics)
$7.05 USD
With an introduction and notes by Charles P.C. Pettit, Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, "The Trumpet Major" is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in...
The Virgilian Tradition
$35.25 USD
– Sold Outby : Michael C. J. Putnam This indispensable anthology gathers texts and translations that cover major aspects of the Virgilian tradition from the Roman poet's own lifetime to the year...