Literary Studies & Criticism

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	1001 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE, REVISED EDITION. Edited By Peter Boxall. Current Item #1737023 Pub at $36.95 - Our Price $24.95

	AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. By Susan Cheever. Remainder Item #2385090 Pub at $15.00 - Our Price $4.95

	THE AMERICAN PURITAN ELEGY: A Literary and Cultural Study. By Jeffrey A. Hammond. Remainder Item #1623265 Pub at $101.00 - Our Price $12.95

	AMERICAN SYMPATHY: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. By Caleb Crain. Remainder Item #7308914 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $4.95

	ANNE FRANK: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife. By Francine Prose. Remainder Item #1788531 Pub at $24.99 - Our Price $6.95

	THE ANNOTATED UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. Current Item #7236158 Pub at $39.95 - Our Price $24.95

	THE ART OF WRITING: Teachings of the Chinese Masters. Edited By T. Barnstone & C. Ping. Remainder Item #1736353 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE BEATS: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey Through the Beat Generation. By Mike Evans. Remainder Item #7129319 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $7.95

	BLACKS AND JEWS IN LITERARY CONVERSATION. By Emily Miller Budick. Remainder Item #7309147 Pub at $33.99 - Our Price $2.95

	BOOK SMART: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days. By Jane Mallison. Remainder Item #1760726 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	BOSWELL'S PRESUMPTUOUS TASK: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson. By Adam Sisman. Remainder Item #1679236 Pub at $15.00 - Our Price $4.95

	THE BURIED BOOK: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh. By David Damrosch. Remainder Item #7209525 Pub at $26.00 - Our Price $6.95

	THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL. By Gregg Crane. Remainder Item #1783726 Pub at $26.99 - Our Price $9.95

	THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF NARNIA. By J.S. Bell, Jr. & C. Dunlop. Remainder Item #744849X Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE COURTSHIP OF OLIVIA LANGDON AND MARK TWAIN. By Susan K. Harris. Remainder Item #7309511 Pub at $29.99 - Our Price $3.95

	DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES: Books That Changed the World. By Janet Browne. Remainder Item #1654144 Pub at $20.95 - Our Price $4.95

	DECAMERON AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF STORYTELLING. By Richard Kuhns. Remainder Item #7343981 Pub at $45.50 - Our Price $9.95

	DEFENDING MIDDLE-EARTH: Tolkien--Myth and Modernity. By Patrick Curry. Remainder Item #1794132 Pub at $12.00 - Our Price $3.95

	DEFINING MOMENTS IN BOOKS. Edited By Lucy Daniel. Remainder Item #1757962 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $6.95

	THE DELIGHTED STATES. By Adam Thirlwell. Remainder Item #1617761 Pub at $30.00 - Our Price $5.95

	DISCUSSING THE DA VINCI CODE.. By L. Strobel & G. Poole. This item is a DVD. Remainder Item #1712241 Pub at $19.99 - Our Price $5.95

	DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT LITERATURE. By Kenneth C. & Jenny Davis. Remainder Item #1788981 Pub at $14.99 - Our Price $4.95

	EARLY CHRISTIAN GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE: A Literary History. By C. Moreschini & E. Norelli. Remainder Item #1696572 Pub at $99.95 - Our Price $39.95

	EVERY BOOK ITS READER: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World. By Nicholas A. Basbanes. Remainder Item #1744135 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $6.95

	THE EVERYTHING GUIDE TO C.S. LEWIS & NARNIA. By Jon Kennedy. Remainder Item #1801112 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	FIGURES OF DISSENT. By Terry Eagleton. Remainder Item #7319800 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $1.95

	FINDING OZ: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story. By Evan I. Schwartz. Current Item #7411332 Pub at $28.00 - Our Price $19.95

	THE FOREST OF THIEVES AND THE MAGIC GARDEN: An Anthology of Medieval Jain Stories. Remainder Item #1668560 Pub at $16.00 - Our Price $5.95

	THE FRIAR AND THE CIPHER: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World. By Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone. Remainder Item #1650610 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	GENTLEMEN CALLERS: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama. By Michael Paller. Remainder Item #7505876 Pub at $26.95 - Our Price $4.95

	GIRL SLEUTH: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. By Melanie Rehak. This book is a large print edition. Remainder Item #7477740 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $4.95

	HARRY, A HISTORY: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon. By Melissa Anelli. Remainder Item #1746138 Pub at $16.00 - Our Price $4.95

	HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines. By Thomas C. Foster. Current Item #712340X Pub at $13.95 - Our Price $9.95

	JACK KEROUAC'S AMERICAN JOURNEY: The Real-Life Odyssey of "On the Road." By Paul Maher, Jr. Remainder Item #7473222 Pub at $16.00 - Our Price $5.95

	THE LINEUP: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives. Edited By Otto Penzler. Current Item #1661590 Pub at $25.99 - Our Price $16.95

	LITERARY HOAXES: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds. By Melissa Katsoulis. Current Item #1709003 Pub at $22.95 - Our Price $16.95

	LITERARY RUSSIA: A Guide. By A. Benn & R. Bartlett. Remainder Item #1684817 Pub at $37.50 - Our Price $5.95

	MACBETH: Man and Myth. By Nick Aitchison. Remainder Item #7359918 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $3.95

	THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits. By Les Standiford. Remainder Item #2376172 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $5.95

	MARX'S DAS KAPITAL: Books That Changed the World. By Francis Wheen. Remainder Item #1654411 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $4.95

	MEMOIR: A History. By Ben Yagoda. Current Item #1658360 Pub at $25.95 - Our Price $16.95

	MEN DESIRING MEN: The Poetry of Same-Sex Identity and Desire in German Classicism. By Susan E. Gustafson. Remainder Item #1630067 Pub at $41.95 - Our Price $2.95

	MONSTERS IN THE ITALIAN LITERARY IMAGINATION. Edited By Keala Jewell. Remainder Item #1630075 Pub at $39.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE MONSTERS: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein. By Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler. Remainder Item #1680153 Pub at $14.99 - Our Price $3.95

	MR. BAGGINS, PART ONE: The History of The Hobbit. By John D. Rateliff. Remainder Item #7394705 Our Price $6.95

	NATIVE-AMERICAN WRITERS: Bloom's Modern Critical Views. Edited By Harold Bloom. Remainder Item #7344597 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $4.95

	NEW ESSAYS ON MY ANTONIA: The American Novel. Edited By Sharon O'Brien. Remainder Item #7311222 Pub at $30.99 - Our Price $2.95

	NEW ESSAYS ON SEIZE THE DAY: The American Novel. Edited By Michael P. Kramer. Remainder Item #7311214 Pub at $25.99 - Our Price $1.95

	NEW ESSAYS ON THE HOUSE OF MIRTH: The American Novel. Edited By Deborah Esch. Remainder Item #7311230 Pub at $25.99 - Our Price $2.95

	THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF LITERARY ANECDOTES. Edited By John Gross. Remainder Item #1756303 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF LITERARY ANECDOTES. Edited By John Gross. This book is shopworn. It may have scuffed covers or edges, or other minor imperfections. Remainder Item #7089864 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $6.95