Random House: Bringing You the Best in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Children's Books
Authors
Books
eBooks
Newletters and Alerts
1000 or more books in Literary Criticism & Collections

Subscribe to the Random House What's New Newsletter.

Your Email Address:

Subscribe to our RSS/XML feed with web-based news readers.
Click your choice:

RSS
RSS PDF
Atom Feed
Add to Google

Browse Category

Find more Literary Criticism books by browsing the categories below.

Literary Criticism & Collections:

Literary Criticism & Collections:

Sort: Author   Bestselling  Format   Date   Price   Title  
Cotton Tenants
Three Families
Written by James Agee
Edited by John Summers
Photographed by Walker Evans
Introduction by Adam Haslett


Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer

In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a 400-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama, at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.
Proud Highway
Proud Highway
Written by Hunter S. Thompson, Edited by Douglas Brinkley, Foreword by William J. Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345377968
Our Price: $20.00
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

Proud Highway
Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Edited by Douglas Brinkley
Foreword by William J. Kennedy


Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1998
Price: $20.00

Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Distant Reading
Distant Reading
Written by Franco Moretti
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781781680841
Our Price: $29.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

Distant Reading

Written by Franco Moretti


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $29.95

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Written by Kurt Vonnegut, Foreword by Neil Gaiman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781609800734
Our Price: $11.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Foreword by Neil Gaiman


Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $11.95

From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Written by Tom Robbins, Read by Tom Robbins and Debra Winger
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739321768
Our Price: $14.98

For more information about downloading this audiobook
visit our Audiobook Download FAQ page.

Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Written by Tom Robbins
Read by Tom Robbins and Debra Winger


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $14.98

Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
Playing In The Dark
Playing In The Dark
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679745426
Our Price: $13.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

Playing In The Dark
Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Written by Toni Morrison


Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $13.95

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.

Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence... Read more >
Beowulf
Beowulf
Written by Howell D. Chickering
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400096220
Our Price: $15.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

Beowulf
A Dual-Language Edition
Written by Howell D. Chickering


Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $15.95

The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.

Leading Beowulf scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.’s, fresh... Read more >
The Bourgeois
The Bourgeois
Written by Franco Moretti
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781781680858
Our Price: $26.95
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

The Bourgeois
Between History and Literature
Written by Franco Moretti


Format: Hardcover, 228 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $26.95

“The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. ‘I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son
Written by James Baldwin, Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780807006238
Our Price: $15.00
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

Notes of a Native Son

Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.00

A new edition of the book many have called James Baldwin’s most influential work

Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil...

Read more >
Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a trade paperback.
Somebody Told Me
Somebody Told Me
Written by Rick Bragg
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375725524
Our Price: $15.00
 Quantity: 1 
Buy From a Local Store

Somebody Told Me
The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg
Written by Rick Bragg


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2001
Price: $15.00

With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others.

For twenty years, Bragg has focused his efforts on the common man... Read more >
View pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Page 5 of 100
View past category highlights: