William Carlos Williams: The Critical Heritage (The Critical Heritage Series)
Routledge Kegan & Paul, April 1980. Hardcover. some rubbing and bumping along top, top and bottom of spine and corners of dust jacket. More
Fiction & Literature
William Shakespeare: a Life
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Paper Back. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
William Wordsworth's the Prelude: A Casebook
Oxford University Press, USA, August 2006. Paper Back. William Wordsworth's long poem The Prelude is a fascinating work-as autobiography, the fruit of many attempts at understanding the formative period of Wordsworth's life; as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years; as an unstable literary text, which..... More
The Xul Reader: An Anthology of Argentine Poetry 1980-1996
Roof Books, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Southern Bastards Volume 1: Here Was a Man
Image Comics, October 2014. Trade Paperback. Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a very big stick. Euless Boss is a high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies. And they're just two of..... More
Southern Bastards, Volume 2: Gridiron
Image Comics, May 2015. Oversize Softcover. Sheriff "Big Bert" Tubb once cleaned up Craw County, Alabama with an iron jaw and a big ol' stick. But that was 40 years ago. When his son, Earl Tubb, returns home to settle some family business, he finds his daddy's grave unkempt, the..... More
All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2007. Trade Paperback. Here are stories about fathers and sons, stories about men and women, and stories about the relationships between men by one of our most gifted story writers. The narrator of "The Who, the What and the Why," begins breaking into his..... More
Beware the Woman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, May 2023. Hardcover. By the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is Megan Abbott at the height of her game. Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted. That's what..... More
Nipponia Nippon (Japanese Novellas)
Pushkin Press, September 2023. Paper Back. A fast-paced, darkly ironic novella from one of Japan's contemporary luminaries--and the husband of Mieko Kawakami--making his English language debut A teenager gripped by obsession seeks to free endangered birds in this darkly funny study of solitude and toxic masculinity set in modern-day Tokyo..... More
The Woman in the Dunes (Vintage International)
Vintage, April 1991. Trade Paperback. This contemporary Japanese novel combines elements of myth, suspense, and existentialism. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a sand pit, where they must shovel off the ever-advancing sand..... More
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Mariner Books, April 2005. Trade Paperback. In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the..... More
Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, January 1989. Trade Paperback. Offering a fictional treatment to a Muslim woman's life, here, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Both obstacles and support systems change as she actively participates..... More
Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory (Revised)
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1997. Trade Paperback. This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the New Criticism to..... More
Rogue Justice: A Thriller
Doubleday Books, May 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The #1 bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps returns with another riveting and intricately plotted thriller, in which a blackmailed federal judge, a secret court and a brazen murder may lead to an unprecedented national crisis. "Abrams delivers..... More
Family Lore
Ecco Press, August 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize From the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican American family told through..... More
No Longer At Ease
Fawcett, May 1991. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Sticker resdue rear cover. 24th Fawcett reprint. [159 pages]. More
Things Fall Apart
Fawcett, March 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
Anchor, October 1994. Trade Paperback. "A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama "African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe." --Toni Morrison Nominated as one of..... More
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
Anchor, October 1994. Trade Paperback. "A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama "African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe." --Toni Morrison Nominated as one of..... More
Literal Madness: Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life, by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Florida, 3 Novels by Kathy Acker
Grove Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Grey boards with a yellow cloth spine. Nice clean copy. More
Ezra Pound (Literary Lives)
Thames & Hudson, June 1987. Trade Paperback. {7' x 9'} Light soiling and marginal darkening. Previous owner's name inked inside first page. [126 pages}. More
T.S. Eliot: A Life
Simon & Schuster, October 1984. Hardcover. some sun fading on dust jacket spine; light shelf wear along top fron and spine of DJ; name inscribed in ink on front free end page. More
The Art of Paul Verlaine
New York University Press, January 1963. Trade Paperback. More
You Never Get It Back (Iowa Short Fiction Award)
University Of Iowa Press, December 2021. Paper Back. The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams's precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in..... More
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Del Rey, October 1995. Mass Market PaperBack. "IRRESISTIBLE!" --The Boston Globe Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who..... More
