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A Manifesto
Written by David Shields
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
With this landmark book, David Shields fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past...
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Essential Writings
Edited by Lawrence Buell
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $18.95
Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and... Read more >
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Written by Jane Austen and David M. Shapard
Format: Trade Paperback, 928 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $17.95
From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Emma that makes her beloved tale of an endearingly inept matchmaker an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,200 annotations on facing pages, including:
-Explanations of...
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Written by Mark Van Doren
Foreword by David Lehman
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2005
Price: $15.95
This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without a hint of pedantry, Van Doren... Read more >
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Abstract Models for Literary History
Written by Franco Moretti
Afterword by Alberto Piazza
Format: Trade Paperback, 119 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2007
Price: $19.95
In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the idea of “distant reading” into a full-blown... Read more >
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On the Politics of Untranslatability
Written by Emily Apter
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $29.95
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to... Read more >
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Written by Louis L'Amour
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $14.99
Little did Louis L'Amour realize back in 1960 when he published The Daybreakers, a novel about two brothers who came west after the Civil War, that he had begun creating what would become perhaps North America's most widely followed literary family: the Sacketts. The stories of ten generations of Sackett men... Read more >
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Written by Aleksandr Afanas'ev
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1976
Price: $18.95
Translated by Norbert Guterman
Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings by Alexander Alexeieff
Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
In this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English we meet both universal fairy-tale figures—thieves and heroes, kings and peasants, beautiful damsels and terrifying witches, enchanted children and crafty animals—and...
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $27.95
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies... Read more >
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Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Edited by Dan Wakefield
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $35.00
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Huffington Post • Kansas City Star • Time Out New York • Kirkus Reviews
This extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction. Written over a sixty-year period, these letters, the vast majority... Read more >
