General Books


The Ethics Of Ambiguity Best Price: $5.25 In ethics you find two sorts of reasoning: 1) One that wants to 'delimit' ethics; allow them...	The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism Best Price: $11.93 Perhaps the reduction in reading of 'literary novels' is due to the general decline in other...	A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade Best Price: $14.05 Hummingbirds! I would have never thought of them as some kind of ambiguous stand-in for a...	The Metamorphoses of Ovid Best Price: $11.55 Lovely cover, pleasant font type, fabulous translation, plenty of space in the margins. Few...	The Letter of Marque Best Price: $7.88 The last few books in this series had gotten very complicated and very dark. This book hits a...



Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $2.54 Charles Dicken's classic tale of Oliver Twist and the people he comes across is a definite...	The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Themes in Islamic History) Best Price: $12.00 Jonathan Berkey's book describes the social and religious development of Islam from its...	The Reverse of the Medal Best Price: $7.27 This book, which by all means should be read before "The Letter of Marque" is a...	Dubliners (Norton Critical Edition) Best Price: $8.88 This Norton critical edition of The Dubliners is a helpful teachers aid and discussion guide as...	Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) Best Price: $2.82 This novel is far from what I expected. I had listened to many of my friends judge Cathy and...



The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Themes in Islamic History) Best Price: $12.00 Jonathan Berkey's book describes the social and religious development of Islam from its...	The Reverse of the Medal Best Price: $7.27 This book, which by all means should be read before "The Letter of Marque" is a...	Dubliners (Norton Critical Edition) Best Price: $8.88 This Norton critical edition of The Dubliners is a helpful teachers aid and discussion guide as...	Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) Best Price: $2.82 This novel is far from what I expected. I had listened to many of my friends judge Cathy and...	Undoing Gender Best Price: $30.00 Butler, Judith. "Undoing Gender, Routledge, 2004. Living Livable Life Amos Lassen and...

Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race Best Price: $10.00 Here are some useful living tips, advice and observations from that quintessential American...	A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Norton Critical Edition) Best Price: $10.12 If you're going to buy 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' as a paperback, I strongly...	$What Should I Read Next?: 70 University of Virginia Professors Recommend Readings in History, Politics, Literature, Math, Science, Technology, the Arts, and More$ What Should I Read Next?: 70 University of Virginia Professors Recommend Readings in History, Politics, Literature, Math, Science, Technology, the Arts, and More Best Price: $12.20 "I cannot live without books."--Thomas Jefferson Even the most well...	The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Third Edition, Volume 1: Modern Poetry Best Price: $46.10 In the past I've read less expensive anthologies, but the quality of the selections and the...	Twelve Angry Men: A Play in Three Acts Best Price: $5.50 I bought this for my niece but did not realize it was a play not a book. She did not like it and...

The Golden Days (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1) Best Price: $8.90 This magical novel portrays a traditional society turned upside down: a boy who'd rather be a...	Paradise Lost (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $17.28 This is an excellent edition of "Paradise Lost" to own. The binding and dustjacket are...	Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems Best Price: $17.95 This book is absolutely exquisite! I only hope that someday I can read it in its original...	Shakespeare After All Best Price: $11.27 I have had this book for about a year, and I keep it right on my end table along with "The...	Understanding David Foster Wallace (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) Best Price: $27.96 Though priced for flush university libraries rather than for skint individuals, this is an...

On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.54 John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England....	The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition Best Price: $65.00 This second volume of American Literature is quite excellent in it's editing and information....	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume F: The Twentieth Century and After Best Price: $15.00 The reason why this got a 4 and not a 5 is because it took so long to get it. I don't mind a...	Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.71 Book is uninteresting and bad structured. It isn't clear, what is target group of this book. It...	Poetry: An Introduction Best Price: $39.85 Excellent quality. It was a text book needed for a college class.

Shakespeare After All Best Price: $11.27 I have had this book for about a year, and I keep it right on my end table along with "The...	Understanding David Foster Wallace (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) Best Price: $27.96 Though priced for flush university libraries rather than for skint individuals, this is an...	On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.54 John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England....	The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition Best Price: $65.00 This second volume of American Literature is quite excellent in it's editing and information....	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume F: The Twentieth Century and After Best Price: $15.00 The reason why this got a 4 and not a 5 is because it took so long to get it. I don't mind a...

Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.71 Book is uninteresting and bad structured. It isn't clear, what is target group of this book. It...	Poetry: An Introduction Best Price: $39.85 Excellent quality. It was a text book needed for a college class.	Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir Best Price: $7.89 D. J. Waldie's Holy Land: a Suburban Memoir is so beautifully and carefully written that I found...	Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words Best Price: $7.69 I am completely crazy about this book and I don't normally read poetry books or books about...	The Annotated Brothers Grimm Best Price: $20.99 As with the other annotated fairy tale books of Maria Tatar, such as The Annotated Classic Fairy...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl: Verse Translations Best Price: $8.00 These are absolutely the best translations of the Gawain- (aka Pearl-) poet around. It's...	Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses [Revised and Expanded Edition] Best Price: $16.00 This book was a shock to me. It's not just a book of annotations, it's also a history of...	Requiem, Mass.: A Novel Best Price: $11.00 ... all of this makes for a great book - one that the author's thoughts and characters will pop...	An Introduction to Fiction Best Price: $63.11 the book wasnt in that great of a condition as they claimed it to be.. but it was a decent price.	The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $8.98 The Epic of Gilgamesh is a difficult text, both to translate and to read. I'm not a fan of...

Desolation Island (Aubrey Maturin Series) Best Price: $4.94 I enjoyed this book. Besides the fact that Napoleonic History is a hobby of mine, I believe...	E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 Best Price: $31.22 ee cummings is my favorite poet, so obviously I'm a little biased. But if you love poetry you'll...	Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper Best Price: $39.71 As part of my educational requirements, I was required to write a literature review. While I...	The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World Best Price: $6.78 You can't really say too terribly much about a replica etiquette manual for the Regency period...	Cranford (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.79 This novella has a good deal of charm and real feeling--I don't think you'll soon forget Miss...

Six Memos for the Next Millennium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86 (Vintage International) Best Price: $6.85 Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a collection of lectures Italo Calvino had intended to...	Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism Best Price: $18.24 The book is OK (like any book, I guess), but Ibn Warraq is way too serious about the subject, in...	The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.63 Julien Sorel devotes his life to self-advancement in this classic novel of French Restoration...	Faust (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $3.02 This is truely a classic and brings into focus the fickleness of the human nature. The language...	Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction (4th Edition) Best Price: $50.47 A text/anthology with a difference. Literature and Society, 2nd Edition, provides an extensive,...

The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake Best Price: $14.91 It's amazing how soothing just reading William Blake's poetry is on the troubled soul. I always...	The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America Best Price: $11.09 Fundamentalism whether Christian or Moslem always breaks out the nut cases. So it was with...

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