History & Criticism Books


The Liars' Club: A MemoirThe Liars' Club: A Memoir
Best Price: $6.45
If you are a fan of child rape then this is the book for you. Otherwise you may want to try...
The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics)The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics)
Best Price: $2.00
I have read all or parts of several versions of The Aeneid, including the highly praised Robert...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir OrfeoSir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo
Best Price: $3.05
For anyone who cares about the subject and yet is too lazy to read the original it is always a...
The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary TermsThe Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
Best Price: $22.95
I bought this book to help me with a school project that involved identifying about fifty...
The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Activity Book 2: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance, Revised ... the World: History for the Classical Child)The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Activity Book 2: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance, Revised ... the World: History for the Classical Child)
Best Price: $21.74
This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide contains all you need to make history come...


The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $0.82
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain is fun to read and see what a master has had to quip about many...
Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA AssassinEnter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
Best Price: $16.47
It makes me happy to know there are people like Mr Haas who makes life easier for us in the...
In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable WorkshopIn the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop
Best Price: $8.96
As I started to read this book, I thought I had a pretty good idea about poetry. I was totally...
Living Water: Powerful Teachings from the International Bestselling Author of The Heavenly ManLiving Water: Powerful Teachings from the International Bestselling Author of The Heavenly Man
Best Price: $8.57
Read his books, if you live in America we don't know what it means to follow Jesus as the...
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition: Volume B: 1820-1865The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition: Volume B: 1820-1865
Best Price: $19.99
The book was exactly what I was needing. It was in good shape as promised.


An Introduction to PoetryAn Introduction to Poetry
Best Price: $45.11
Much to like in this book; despite a lot of dreary examples of ancient poets writing drearily...
75 Readings75 Readings
Best Price: $23.82
This collections of essays pack loads of different styles and ideas. Diverse and rich, 75...
The Way to Rainy MountainThe Way to Rainy Mountain
Best Price: $6.94
Mr. Momaday's voice in his collection of stories is priceless. He tells of the Kiowa's legends,...
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's OdysseyThe Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey
Best Price: $27.99
This broadly conceived and enlightening look at how Homer's Odyssey has resonated in the West...
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary ImaginationPlaying in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Best Price: $6.19
Short book by Tony Morrison based on her university lectures are three part mediatations on...

CaneCane
Best Price: $7.31
This is the most amazing book. I am so sad that Jean Toomer did not write any other fiction.
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural TheoryBeginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Best Price: $17.99
This book was a supplemental text for my Graduate level Critical Theory class, and I thank my...
Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $3.99
This was excellent. I didn't think I'd ever want to read Gulliver's Travels, the eighteenth...
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (The Best American Series (TM))The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (The Best American Series (TM))
Best Price: $3.72
Meh. The idea for Best American Nonrequired Reading is interesting: take a group of bright high...
Welcome to the Monkey HouseWelcome to the Monkey House
Best Price: $7.00
Glen Williamson (Google him) has been performing two of these stories for years as a one-man...

Heaven's Calling: A Memoir of One Soul's Steep AscentHeaven's Calling: A Memoir of One Soul's Steep Ascent
Best Price: $12.57
Leanne Payne was called out of brokenness into union with Christ, and her nearly fifty-year...
On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian WarOn Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
Best Price: $8.74
The greatest of all Greek historians was the Athenian general Thucydides (455-400 B.C.E.). ...
Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, WritingPortable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing
Best Price: $38.00
I had to buy this book for a literature class, and it is chock full of everything from poetry to...
Emma (Penguin Classics)Emma (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $4.00
Like most of Jane Austen's novels, the theme is around young women and how to obtain marriages...
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (Cliffs Notes)Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (Cliffs Notes)
Best Price: $1.49
I downloaded this e-doc for my son, but I can't figure out how to give it to him. What is the...

Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Cliffs Notes)Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Cliffs Notes)
Best Price: $2.57
Here is an honest review of the book for what it is, not the ethical and educational...
Take Our Cat, Please: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Get Fuzzy (Graphic Novel))Take Our Cat, Please: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Get Fuzzy (Graphic Novel))
Best Price: $5.55
This is another great collection, it plays on the running humor, dog good, cat evil.
Poetics (Penguin Classics)Poetics (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $5.94
I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Poetry appeals to human passions and...
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed AmericaThe Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Best Price: $11.17
David Hajdu's "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed...
Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions)Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $14.59
I sent for this product many weeks ago and have received nothing. My email to the seller went...

Aproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hisp?nicaAproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hisp?nica
Best Price: $73.63
Very nice selection of texts, helpful biographical info about authors - everything that a...
Hot Chicks with DouchebagsHot Chicks with Douchebags
Best Price: $11.44
I have to admit that when I heard this book was coming out, I had my doubts about the quality. ...
John McCain: An American OdysseyJohn McCain: An American Odyssey
Best Price: $7.92
Written at a time when John McCain was preparing for a presidential run in 2000, this book can...
Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $4.90
this is the best book of plays that i have ever bought. Lysistrata is one of the best plays i've...
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume D: The Romantic PeriodThe Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume D: The Romantic Period
Best Price: $23.50
Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature ...

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History)Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History)
Best Price: $17.50
I have sometimes wondered what I am. I am of course me, but sometimes it seems there is no...
Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics)Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $4.40
Many readers focus on the Theogony, which is the ancient Greeks Creation Story, and which Hesiod...
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary FormHow to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Best Price: $8.21
this is a little bit of insite into the world of books. not all of us have lit degrees and are...
A Glossary of Literary TermsA Glossary of Literary Terms
Best Price: $39.55
Abrams, accomplished scholar and critic, has created a monument for himself and the best, most...
The Essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad and the OdysseyThe Essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey
Best Price: $12.54
Lombardo's translations of Homer are brilliant, energetic, and fun to read. While other...

Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics)Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics)
Best Price: $39.95
This arguably pocket-sized book has an insane amount of literature rolled into one neat little...
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)
Best Price: $8.17
Imagination, the Lord of Universe say mystics, poets, artists and every rebel for freedom, is...
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Made Easy)Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Made Easy)
Best Price: $1.95
I bought this book for my high school Shakespeare class and found it to be the most helpful...
Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and SensePerrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense
Best Price: $48.95
I had to buy this book for a class and have been impressed with how many writings it contains....
The Art of Looking SidewaysThe Art of Looking Sideways
Best Price: $24.75
An amazing effort creating an amazing result. One of the most remarkable collection of...

Same Kind Of Different As MeSame Kind Of Different As Me
Best Price: $10.95
A book that makes you think and examine your feeling toward the homeless and those of a...
Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70sPhilip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s
Best Price: $21.11
As with all the Library of America titles, this collection is superbly edited and presents the...
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan PoeComplete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Best Price: $13.99
Hey...what do I really need to say here? I mean, this is Edgar Allan Poe we're talking about! ...
Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with ExercisesEssential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises
Best Price: $22.80
The author categorizes and provides exceedingly clear definitions of many literary terms. For...
The Outlandish CompanionThe Outlandish Companion
Best Price: $16.00
Outstanding addition for those who have enjoyed the series. Many details are clarified and...

Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library)Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library)
Best Price: $8.44
Almost everyone has seen or at least heard of the movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's, but how many...
Handbook to Literature, A (11th Edition) (Handbook to Literature)Handbook to Literature, A (11th Edition) (Handbook to Literature)
Best Price: $40.01
It appears to be a good book. I have not actually used it much, yet. It has tons of...
Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book IAthenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I
Best Price: $29.40
As Greek text books go this one isn't the best to use when learning on your own out side of...
Inherit the WindInherit the Wind
Best Price: $4.29
It was written decades ago, inspired on a famous trial that had taken place years earlier, yet...
How Proust Can Change Your LifeHow Proust Can Change Your Life
Best Price: $4.95
This book starts out strong- antiquated images from Marcel's father Dr. Proust's guide to...

Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and FoundApples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
Best Price: $12.28
What a remarkable read. Families are always complicated and sometimes wonderous and Marie...
    
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