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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...	Writing without Teachers Best Price: $7.98 I'm trying to start a writer's group in my hometown and this book was recommended to me by my...	The Seagull Reader: Poems, Second Edition Best Price: $19.52 Less than half the price of full-length anthologies and more economical than most value...	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $6.00 Here this book goes deep in the realm of psychology and Science fiction. Very short. But not for...	The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries Best Price: $24.99 The Longman Anthology of British Literature - 2B / 0-321-10669-5 Anthologies are usually...



David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.81 Classic of the caliber of Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics). Dickens does a great...	Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.62 Having exhausted Austen for the time being and seeing that Cranford was funny and touching I...	Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader Best Price: $5.00 What this is is a collection of essays about books: reading them, shelving them, collecting...	The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking , Writing Best Price: $20.00	To Have and Have Not Best Price: $4.00 TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT is nothing like the Bogart movie of the same name. Hemingway's book is much...

Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter Best Price: $18.81 Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Its...	Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond Best Price: $3.95 Written when McMurtry was 62, WALTER BENJAMIN AT THE DAIRY QUEEN is probably best classified as...	Concise Anthology of American Literature Best Price: $65.00 Great collection of American Writing, used to book for online class, but never took it outside...	David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.81 Classic of the caliber of Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics). Dickens does a great...	Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.62 Having exhausted Austen for the time being and seeing that Cranford was funny and touching I...

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader Best Price: $5.00 What this is is a collection of essays about books: reading them, shelving them, collecting...	The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking , Writing Best Price: $20.00	To Have and Have Not Best Price: $4.00 TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT is nothing like the Bogart movie of the same name. Hemingway's book is much...	Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter Best Price: $18.81 Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Its...	Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond Best Price: $3.95 Written when McMurtry was 62, WALTER BENJAMIN AT THE DAIRY QUEEN is probably best classified as...

Concise Anthology of American Literature Best Price: $65.00 Great collection of American Writing, used to book for online class, but never took it outside...	The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.98 While reasonably readable, this translation suffers from some serious issues that will be...	Aristotle: Introductory Readings Best Price: $8.00 Irwin's and Fine's translations merit a five-star rating. They are expert scholars who have for...	Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry Best Price: $40.00 This book came to me in a short amount of time. It was also in perfect condition. Thanks.	Woman at Point Zero Best Price: $8.95 As a student at Spelman College, I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Nawal Saadawi since she...

Rabelais and His World Best Price: $13.27 This is simply the best analysis of the "Carnivalesque" and is a valuable preface to...	An English interpretation of the Holy Quran Best Price: $6.35 Why does Amazon need to add "Holy" to any of the different religious fiction books? ...	Poetic Meter and Poetic Form Best Price: $35.68 This book is wonderful. Fussell in opinionated and unafraid to display his own taste, but I find...	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...	James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America) Best Price: $19.40 One of the greatest writers of the 1900's. Excellent physical book. Well-made and aesthetically...	Omeros Best Price: $8.17 Exploring the relationships between natives, tourists, and nature, Walcott moves beyond just our...	Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations Best Price: $7.88 Everyone should own a copy of this short collection of insightful ideas. Buy at least two ...

Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition Best Price: $18.50 I have at least six or seven different editions of Thoreau's greatest classic, and this one is...	High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never Best Price: $2.66 The title story in this collection is that of a stowaway hermit crab that Kingsolver...	The Student's Catullus (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) Best Price: $19.75 The third edition to Garrison's Catullus is an improvement from the last edition. A minor...	Critical Terms for Literary Study Best Price: $20.22 While I agree that this is not a text that delves deep into the theories of Lacan or Derrida or...	All Year Round (Lifeways) Best Price: $16.00 Healthy and delicious recipes, beautiful poetry, and great ideas centering around natural...

How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition Best Price: $16.02 If you have real interest, this is your book. If you are going to Egypt, not just to sightsee,...	The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions inEnglish (Slipcased Edition) Best Price: $40.94 I have this book as a textbook this semester and it has great info.It might have TOO much info...	Borges: Selected Non-Fictions Best Price: $10.79 A must read. A great selection of non-fiction material. If you know and like Borges you know...	Strangers on a Train Best Price: $6.99 The Fiction Writer should put tension on every page of a novel, in every scene, and select every...	The Arabian Nights II: Sindbad and Other Popular Stories (Arabian Nights No. II) Best Price: $7.90 If you read Husain Haddawy Arabian Nights then The Arabian Nights II is a must since it contains...

The Essential Kierkegaard Best Price: $17.38 With a dizzying series of pseudonyms, from Climaticus to Anticlimaticus, this book selects from...	The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.82 ...but without the histrionics. One of the greatest novels ever written. Also one of the...	Joe Brainard: I Remember Best Price: $7.07 One of the challenges facing us in the 21st century is that we have too many reading choices;...	My Antonia Best Price: $1.74 The edition of this book that has a cover painting of Antonia in a white dress (ISBN 1438242905)...	Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Best Price: $15.50 Welcome to the world of Roland, his fellow Gunslingers and the Dark Tower - It is a wonderous...

Frankenstein (Longman Cultural Editions) Best Price: $3.75 Frankenstein is a great work, though one that has consistently been underrated and...

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