by Klara Glowczewska  Publisher Comments From the #1 travel magazine in the country, a collection of travel tales from some of today's finest writers. Travel writing maintains its seemingly endless popularity, and this volume offers a particularly transporting body of work, pairing exotic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Margaret Atwood Synopsis This is Margaret Atwood's exploration of stories and storytelling, myths and their reinventions, fiction and fact, the weirdness of nature, and the strangeness of the Canadian North.... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Daniel Pool Publisher Comments For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
United States 18th and 19th Century by Christopher Benfey Publisher Comments A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought. At the close of the Civil War, the United States took a deep breath to lick wounds and... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Robert M Crunden Publisher Comments In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to the American entry into World War I. Crunden begins with deft portraits of the figures who were central to the birth of Modernism... (read more) Your Price $3.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Jane Eldridg Miller Publisher Comments With the rise of women's suffrage, challenges to marriage and divorce laws, and expanding opportunities for education and employment for women, the early years of the twentieth century were a time of social revolution. Examining British novels written in... (read more) Your Price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Nicholas Boyle Publisher Comments German literature in all genres and from all historical periods has exerted an enormous influence on the history of western thought. From Martin Luther, Frederick Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Bertolt... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Sylvia Beach Publisher Comments Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Michael Madhu Datta Publisher Comments "The poem is rising into splendid popularity. Some say it is better than Milton-but that is all bosh-nothing can be better than Milton; many say it licks Kalidasa; I have no objection to that. I don't think it impossible to equal Virgil, Kalidasa, and... (read more) Your Price $19.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
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by James Simpson Publisher Comments The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of... (read more) Your Price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Donna Orwin Publisher Comments Russian psychological prose has made a distinct contribution to world culture—not only to literature, but also to practical psychology and even to neuropsychology. Consequences of Consciousness focuses primarily on Russian ideas of the self and... (read more) Your Price $43.95 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Robert Welch Publisher Comments By turns sacred or profane, mystical or earthy, scathingly satirical, and modern or achingly nostalgic for the ever-receding past, the literature of Ireland has long entranced and entertained readers the world over. Now in a new concise edition with 140... (read more) Your Price $2.83 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Denis Donoghue Publisher Comments How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a "classic"? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your Price $15.00 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Eldred Durosi Jones Publisher Comments An analysis of the literary criticism of modern African Literature.... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Michael Payne Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [1130]-1134) and indexes.... (read more) Your Price $25.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Read an original essay by Simon Winchester and save 30% on The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.
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