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 The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed AmericaBest Price: $13.85 This is a great and entertaining work of pop culture journalism and sociology. I started reading... |  Jane Austen: The Complete Novels, Deluxe Edition (Library of Literary Classics)Best Price: $12.86 This book can't be beat for price (you'll pay more for the individual paperbacks) and the... |  The Library at NightBest Price: $17.10 I can not imagine a better gift than this to buy for a person who loves collections of books,... |  How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book)Best Price: $6.99 nothing in this book is revolutionary. these are things any reader already knows and does,... |  Maya Angelou: A Glorious CelebrationBest Price: $14.90 Beautifully designed and featuring over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters... |
 The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical TalesBest Price: $6.00 This book was assigned text for a neuropsych. class I had during my undergraduate degree. It was... |  The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)Best Price: $10.82 Perhaps I'm one of the few people who didn't have to read this in high school / college. I'm... |  Understanding Comics: The Invisible ArtBest Price: $12.84 good stuff, though i felt 'making comics' was better all around. easier read, and more pertinent... |  On the Road: The Original ScrollBest Price: $4.29 I mean, it's hard to write a review of something that people are stil trying to figure out... |  It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable EnvironmentsBest Price: $8.05 It is, indeed, smart, funny and readable. The author seems clever, and writes in an... |
 Le Petit Prince (French Language Edition)Best Price: $5.64 this is a classic book -- a wonderful read. i bought this copy for some friends in Burkina Faso... |  Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in BooksBest Price: $1.71 After reading reviews I decided to give this book a try. Unfortunately I couldn't make it very... |  Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the PrisonBest Price: $8.37 By examining the rise of prison systems in Western culture, Foucault demonstrates the ways... |  The Marvel EncyclopediaBest Price: $18.99 Fun book. If you need to get an idae of Mrvel characters, well this will help. |  Maps and LegendsBest Price: $16.32 I know a lot of these essays from other sources and have lived with them a while. They're good... |
 Metaphors We Live ByBest Price: $8.93 I read this book back in the 90s while I was studying psycho-linguistics as an undergrad and... |  Becoming Jane AustenBest Price: $8.64 A well-written, well-researched biography of our beloved, complex spinster. While the book... |  Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)Best Price: $7.91 I picked up this book because I recalled that the author, several years ago, wrote an impossibly... |  Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (8th Edition)Best Price: $33.53 This has got to be hands down one of the best books I have ever read. I picked this up for a... |  To the LighthouseBest Price: $3.50 The idea of Virginia Woolf's fiction being read aloud effectively has struck me as an... |
 Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic TemperamentBest Price: $4.99 HOw much of the creativity of fiery individuals is due to mood disorders? This book explores the... |  Darkness Visible: A Memoir of MadnessBest Price: $4.44 As someone who's survived the storms of depression, Styron gives a commendable account of this... |  Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $4.37 I agonized through this book in HS and have recently breezed through it. About 30 years have... |  Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)Best Price: $1.00 The original edition of 'Leaves of Grass' published in 1855 contained twelve poems only. The... |  On the Road: 50th Anniversary EditionBest Price: $4.29 Let me starting by noting that this was the first time I've ever read this wonderful tome. You... |
 Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)Best Price: $3.15 This book is great for anyone who loves shakespeare but has trouble understanding the old stlye... |  The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)Best Price: $7.79 I may do an actual review later after some more reading, but some people may want to know, as I... |  How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the LinesBest Price: $5.50 I wish I had read this 45 years ago, when I was studying fiction in college. |  Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics)Best Price: $1.70 I used express delivery and it left the warehouse the same day I ordered it and I received it... |  Brother, I'm DyingBest Price: $14.36 This book is a clear, beautifully written story of a family and their struggles, life and death,... |
 Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and HeroesBest Price: $3.75 Mythology is classicist Edith Hamilton's book on Greek, Roman and Norse mythology, illustrated... |  The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton AnthologyBest Price: $18.00 The Norton anthology of sonnets includes such great sonnet writers as Walt Whitman, Allen... |  Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)Best Price: $10.45 I've read it three times, and as I age, I find more truth, pain, and life than I had previously.... |  The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s (Vintage Crime/Blck Lizard Orig)Best Price: $15.50 Everything about this gigantic collection is fantastic, the 16.99 price tag is the best thing.... |  The Annotated Lolita: Revised and UpdatedBest Price: $11.24 absolutely beautiful writing. Reading the words Nabokov writes is like fine dining, you can... |
 Illuminations: Essays and ReflectionsBest Price: $8.42 The depth of Benjamin's pessimism has, I think, been underestimated. "The story is told... |  Go Fug Yourself: The Fug AwardsBest Price: $11.25 Did I mention it was funny? Only I wish it had more pictures of Intern George. |  English Literature and Composition (Cliffs AP)Best Price: $3.76 This is a good book. It has an excellent glossary, and the practice tests are very good. |  The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (The Best American Series)Best Price: $4.34 This is a collection of off-beat and overlooked pieces--short stories, essays and various... |  The Outlandish CompanionBest Price: $16.50 I have enjoyed this series and particularly like this one as it gives alot of details about... |
 Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?Best Price: $2.00 I think this book was fabulous! Since moving to Chicago from Oklahoma and from recieving a... |  Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan PoeBest Price: $13.29 Hey...what do I really need to say here? I mean, this is Edgar Allan Poe we're talking about! ... |  Without a Map: A MemoirBest Price: $11.20 Reading Without A Map made me recall Roger Ebert's comments that the stories of Frank McCourt's... |  Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)Best Price: $1.71 Jane Eyre is the story of a young girl who grows up and is forever contrary to her society. The... |  Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's OrientalismBest Price: $18.56 The book is OK (like any book, I guess), but Ibn Warraq is way too serious about the subject, in... |
 The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never HadBest Price: $16.15 The value of this book can be high if it is taken as just one of many and varying books on the... |  1001 Books You Must Read Before You DieBest Price: $18.49 I love book lists. And if you also love book lists, books about books, you must have have this... |  A Poetry HandbookBest Price: $6.98 This book by Mary Oliver is an excellent resource for any poet seeking to improve their... |  A Room of One's OwnBest Price: $3.00 I found it tedious to read in spite of the high literary reputation and ability of Virginia... |  SilenceBest Price: $5.95 The book was in great condition and arrived promptly to my door. For me, the typeset was a bit... |
 The Liars' Club: A MemoirBest Price: $6.69 Mary Karr's memoir winds all over the place, beautiful prose, but it's everywhere at once. I... |  The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Best Price: $8.23 First, let me say that I have read Dharma Bums several times and, of course, found something new... |  NauseaBest Price: $7.97 When Sartre wrote this, he was just a young budding writer, and it's surprising to see how... |  Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It BackBest Price: $12.50 I became an evangelical Christian in 1984, and one of the first heavy-hitter apologetic authors... |  The New Kings of NonfictionBest Price: $3.69 The stories is this book are not only interesting and well-written, they also provide a lot of... |
 The Odyssey by HomerBest Price: $20.92 For thousands of years this story has been told and retold. The reason this story is still... |  MythologyBest Price: $4.99 Mythology is classicist Edith Hamilton's book on Greek, Roman and Norse mythology, illustrated... |  On UglinessBest Price: $26.25 'One man's trash is another man's treasure' might be a apt conclusion after spending the... |  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Illustrated EditionBest Price: $8.00 My grandson is participating in a rendition of 'Cats' at his elementary school and I wanted the... | |
History & Criticism Books
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