Literary Studies & Criticism

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	1001 BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU DIE. Edited By Peter Boxall. This book is shopworn. It may have scuffed covers or edges, or other minor imperfections. Remainder Item #1626051 Pub at $34.95 - Our Price $9.95

	ALASDAIR GRAY: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography. Edited By Phil Moores. Remainder Item #7427093 Pub at $40.00 - Our Price $9.95

	AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. By Susan Cheever. Remainder Item #7145624 Our Price $5.95

	AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. By Susan Cheever. This item is a CD. Remainder Item #7391781 Pub at $29.99 - Our Price $7.95

	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. Current Item #1662791 Pub at $24.99 - Our Price $16.95

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

	THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH, REVISED EDITION. By Karen Wynn Fonstad. Current Item #7432577 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $16.95

	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

	BEOWULF & GRENDEL: The Truth Behind England's Oldest Legend. By John Grigsby. Remainder Item #7227310 Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $4.95

	BEYOND THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT: Books from the 1950s That Made American Culture. By David Castronovo. Remainder Item #736105X Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $4.95

	BIZARRE BOOKS: A Compendium of Classic Oddities. By R. Ash & B. Lake. This book is shopworn. It may have scuffed covers or edges, or other minor imperfections. Remainder Item #7293607 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $2.95

	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 #7376472 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon. Edited By Elizabeth Miller. Current Item #7486154 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $16.95

	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

	CAMBRIDGE PAPERBACK GUIDE TO LITERATURE IN ENGLISH. By Ian Ousby. Remainder Item #7427263 Pub at $43.00 - Our Price $5.95

	CHAUCER AND LANGLAND: Historical and Textual Approaches. By George Kane. Remainder Item #7317751 Pub at $77.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF HARRY POTTER. By Tere Stouffer. Current Item #6294006 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $11.95

	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

	CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. By John Sutherland. Current Item #7402422 Pub at $22.95 - Our Price $9.95

	THE CURTAIN: An Essay in Seven Parts. By Milan Kundera. Remainder Item #7328842 Pub at $22.95 - Our Price $7.95

	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 $12.95

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

	THE DEVIL & DOCTOR DWIGHT: Satire & Theology in the Early American Republic. By Colin Wells. Remainder Item #7197454 Pub at $27.50 - Our Price $4.95

	DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT LITERATURE. By Kenneth C. & Jenny Davis. Current Item #7483384 Pub at $14.99 - Our Price $9.95

	DREAMING OF COCKAIGNE: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life. By Herman Pleij. Remainder Item #1634488 Pub at $83.50 - Our Price $14.95

	EASTERN CANONS: Approaches to the Asian Classics. Edited By W.T. de Bary & I. Bloom. Remainder Item #7309910 Pub at $30.50 - Our Price $7.95

	FAKING LITERATURE. By K.K. Ruthven. Remainder Item #742762X Pub at $35.99 - Our Price $2.95

	FICTION'S OVERCOAT: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy. By Edith W. Clowes. Remainder Item #7463634 Pub at $49.95 - Our Price $5.95

	FIGURES OF DISSENT. By Terry Eagleton. Remainder Item #7319800 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $2.95

	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 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 #1629530 Pub at $16.00 - Our Price $5.95

	HOMER'S THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY: Books That Changed the World. By Alberto Manguel. Remainder Item #7474970 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $5.95

	HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS AND HOW EASILY IT CAN BE BROKEN. By Daniel Mendelsohn. Remainder Item #7474997 Pub at $26.95 - 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

	HOW TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS YOU HAVEN'T READ. By Pierre Bayard. Remainder Item #7354789 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $2.95

	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

	LIGHT, FREEDOM AND SONG: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing. By David Pierce. Remainder Item #7181671 Pub at $40.00 - Our Price $12.95

	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

	LITERATURE AND THE CRIME AGAINST NATURE: From Homer to Hughes. By Keith Sagar. Remainder Item #7379374 Our Price $2.95

	MACBETH: Man and Myth. By Nick Aitchison. Remainder Item #7359918 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits. By Les Standiford. Current Item #7302711 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $13.95

	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