History & Criticism Books


Scenes from Havian Life (Penguin 60s S.)	Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950 (Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol 4) Best Price: $126.79 Essays and journalism and very good footnotes deal with starvation in Europe, prevention of...	Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride: A Memoir About Men and Motorcycles Best Price: $3.99 If you're looking for this book, it has been newly reprinted (word for word) under the...	Critical Theory Since Plato Best Price: $122.81 This was a frightening book when I had to read it in my LitTheory class. Now I'm so glad I...	The Wadsworth Casebook Series for Reading, Research and Writing: Collection of Walt Whitman (Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature) Best Price: $6.50 Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title...



The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism Best Price: $11.26 I read this book slowly, underlining passages, re-reading certain passages to fully absorb the...	Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey Best Price: $7.33 Poet Octavio Paz has journeyed across much of the twentieth century landscape in this short book...	Airman's Odyssey Best Price: $15.91 This trilogy consists of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's three most famous early aviation books: ...	Misreadings Best Price: $1.99 This is a mirthful little volume by Umberto Eco, author of some very long novels, including The...	American Literature to 1900 (Hist of Literature) (v. 8) Best Price: $34.46 Provides a useful overview in some ways, but also tends towards statements of this sort...



Middle-eastern Mythology: From the Assyrians to the Hebrews (Pelican) Best Price: $10.00 Professor Hooke shows how mythology can play a role in ritual, how it can explain the origin of...	The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories Best Price: $14.46 The anthology is an excellent book. The stories were not written exclusively by gay authors, and...	The Penguin Dickens Companion (Penguin Reference Books)	Confessio Amantis (Penguin Classics)	Women in Love (English Library) Best Price: $24.85

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $107.64 THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL is a novel that suffers from the author's inability to decide...	The Treasure of the City of Ladies: or The Book of Three Virtues (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $10.00 I personally find this book to be useful for the modern individual as well as the noble lady of...	Parzival and Titurel (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.98 Parzival is a very difficult work to read, let alone translate, and Edwards has done an...	Sydney Smith (Oxford Paperbacks) Best Price: $95.02	The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (Text of 1805) (Oxford Paperbacks, 207) Best Price: $7.70 The Prelude , Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem, is crucial to our understanding of...

Reminiscences (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $102.26 Thomas Carlyle was one of the most influential commentators of the nineteenth century: writer,...	John Milton (The Oxford Poetry Library) Best Price: $7.95 Contrary to what other reviews and summaries might claim, this edition contains neither the...	The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference) Best Price: $11.99 Much better than the older version "The Oxford Companion to Classical...	St. Leon (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $22.00 William Godwin's 1799 novel, "St. Leon," builds on themes he and patterns he...	The Grasmere Journals Best Price: $5.49 Dorothy Wordsworth's The Grasmere Journals , begun in May 1800 while at Dove Cottage, and...

The Mabinogion (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $14.19 How does this handsomely bound new rendering by Sioned Davies, Chair in Welsh at Cardiff,...	Selected Critical Writings (Oxford World's Classics) Famous for her powerful and popular fiction, George Eliot was also a remarkable critic,...	C. S. Lewis Best Price: $8.00 This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C....	CHILD OF THE NORTH	THE HISTORY OF THE HOBBIT. Part Two: Return to Bag-End

The Trumpeter of Krakow Best Price: $11.00 FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret...	Classics of Children's Literature Presents some of the "masterpieces" of children's literature including Mother...	Mcmichael G:Anthology American Lit V2 3e	The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions Best Price: $0.80 Arranged together for the first time, thirty-two introductions by W. B. Yeats to the works of...	Toucans Two, and Other Poems

The Young Russians: A Collection of Stories About Them	Eighteenth-Century English Poetry: The Annotated Anthology This anthology of 18th-century English poetry is extensively annotated for a new generation of...	The Tragedie of Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Originals: First Editions) The Tragedie of Julius Caesar dates from around 1599, and was first published by Heminge and...	Strange Attractors: Literature, Culture and Chaos Theory A study of the metaphorical links between chaos theory and the worlds of culture and literature,...	Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, AP Edition Best Price: $29.98

Milton and the English Revolution The name and work of the late British Marxist historian Christopher Hill should be fairly well...	American Literary Anecdotes Best Price: $1.00	Riding the Yellow Trolley Car: Selected Nonfiction Best Price: $2.99 William Kennedy's career as a journalist serves as the basis for this collection of his...	The Modern American Novel: New Revised Edition Best Price: $7.75 The Modern American Novel is an indispensable handbook for all those interested in the novel and...	500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide Best Price: $3.39 [...] Summaries served like appetizers for what might be a bookstore or library binge, you...

Dryden to Johnson (Hist of Literature) (v. 4) Best Price: $152.89 We bought this book to complete the literature history series. It arrived quickly and we were...	Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Penguin Classics) In this selection of writings, largely unpublished during Diderot's lifetime, the reader...	The Tempest (Critical Studies, Penguin) Best Price: $28.99 Hailed by The Times Educational Supplement as "superb", Penguin Critical Studies is a...	Wordsworth: Poetry (Critical Studies, Penguin) Alan Gardiner sets the poet and his age in their context and provides an accessible commentary...	The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility Best Price: $3.93 This is a book for Janeites of any sort, people who recognize where the "truth...

Where I Lived & What I Lived for (Great Ideas) Best Price: $2.86 Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see...	Jane Eyre (Pocket Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.89 Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and...	My Penguin the Picture of Dorian Gray Best Price: $40.00 Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and...	The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit	She

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero	Microworlds Best Price: $14.72 Although the book in its entirety is highly recommended for fans of Lem, I would like to present...	Hamlet (The Macmillan Shakespeare)	The Inner Harbour	Mother Poem (Oxford Poets)

Millions of Strange Shadows (Oxford Poets) Anthony Hecht is a very fine craftsman. Formally, his poems are inventive and carefully...	"Murder Will Out": The Detective in Fiction Best Price: $58.30 Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Philip Marlowe, Perry Mason, Lord Peter Wimsey,...	Jack Holborn (Oxford Children's Classics) Best Price: $4.43 If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together...	Peace and War: A Collection of Poems Best Price: $8.99 " The war poems of slaughter and loss in this anthology say as much about peace as do the...	The Homeric Hymns (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.94 It is a great read; highly recommend it if you are interested in this sort of topic.

Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context) (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $6.50 Geoffrey Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France,...	Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery Best Price: $27.65 I was rather surprised by the title of this book, as I had always assumed that Chaucer had died...	Gift of Wings Best Price: $28.10 When people ask why I love flying so much, I'm always tempted to give them a copy of A Gift...	An Introduction to Literature, 12th Edition Best Price: $5.35 This book was very useful for my Introduction to Literature class. (Naturally) Contains works...	The Art of the Short Story Best Price: $13.27 I actually bought this book for a class I was taking in Short Fiction, but I still found some...

What Maisie Knew (Everyman Paperback Classics) Best Price: $15.80 I have not read any other James, except for Daisy Miller over 20 years ago, but picked this up...	Black Beech and Honeydew: An Autobiography Best Price: $142.30	Roses	C.S.Lewis (Flamingo S.) C.S.Lewis was a prolific writer and a man capable of inspiring both devotion and hostility. This...	Speckled People Best Price: $49.95 The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place. His father, a brutal Irish...

Parzival and Titurel (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.98 Parzival is a very difficult work to read, let alone translate, and Edwards has done an...	Sydney Smith (Oxford Paperbacks) Best Price: $95.02	The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (Text of 1805) (Oxford Paperbacks, 207) Best Price: $7.70 The Prelude , Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem, is crucial to our understanding of...	Reminiscences (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $102.26 Thomas Carlyle was one of the most influential commentators of the nineteenth century: writer,...	John Milton (The Oxford Poetry Library) Best Price: $7.95 Contrary to what other reviews and summaries might claim, this edition contains neither the...

The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference) Best Price: $11.99 Much better than the older version "The Oxford Companion to Classical...	St. Leon (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $22.00 William Godwin's 1799 novel, "St. Leon," builds on themes he and patterns he...	The Grasmere Journals Best Price: $5.49 Dorothy Wordsworth's The Grasmere Journals , begun in May 1800 while at Dove Cottage, and...	The Mabinogion (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $14.19 How does this handsomely bound new rendering by Sioned Davies, Chair in Welsh at Cardiff,...	Selected Critical Writings (Oxford World's Classics) Famous for her powerful and popular fiction, George Eliot was also a remarkable critic,...

If All the World Were a Blackbird: Poems IF ALL THE WORLD WERE A BLACKBIRD is a collection of verse by Hungarian poet Weores Sandor in...	A Bibliography of Iain Crichton Smith	Drinkers Verse	Discourse Perspectives on Syntax	Literature: MLA '98 Best Price: $10.08 This is not a review. I am searching for a teacher's manual for this book. Is there one?

Language Arts: Extending the Possibilities Best Price: $74.99 Language Arts: Extending the Possibilities shares an insightful, developmental view of the...	Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice Best Price: $44.50 My granddaughter needed this book for class. A new one at the bookstore was priced way too...	Shakespeare's World Best Price: $18.75 Who was William Shakespeare? Some people believe he never existed as one person but rather...	Twentieth Century Views; Coleridge, A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views) Best Price: $295.70 This collection has a number of outstanding essays. One of the most comprehensive is by I. A....

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