Literature & Literary Studies Textbooks

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Sunday Best

80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews

John Carey

Critical Revolutionaries

Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read

Terry Eagleton

Gilgamesh

A New Translation of the Ancient Epic

Sophus Helle

Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

An Annotated Edition

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edited by Timothy F. Jackson

Introduction by Holly Peppe

Clairvoyant of the Small

The Life of Robert Walser

Susan Bernofsky

100 Poets

A Little Anthology

John Carey

Why Writing Matters

Nicholas Delbanco

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles

The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death

Harold Bloom

For Now

Eileen Myles

Under the Red White and Blue

Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby

Greil Marcus

The Aeneid

Vergil

Translated by Sarah Ruden

Introduction by Susanna Braund

The Craft of Poetry

A Primer in Verse

Lucy Newlyn

Fabulous Monsters

Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends

Alberto Manguel

The Lions' Den

Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky

Susie Linfield

The Vampire

A New History

Nick Groom

The Bookshop of the World

Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

The Warm South

How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

Robert Holland

The Madwoman in the Attic

The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

Introduction by Lisa Appignanesi

The Lessons of Tragedy

Statecraft and World Order

Hal Brands and Charles Edel

The Club

Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

Leo Damrosch

Radical Sacrifice

Terry Eagleton

Joy

100 Poems

Edited by Christian Wiman

Miyazakiworld

A Life in Art

Susan Napier

The Dregs of the Day

Mairtin O Cadhain

Translated by Alan Titley

Inadvertent

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Translated by Ingvild Burkey

On Color

David Kastan and Stephen Farthing

How to Read Literature

Terry Eagleton

Packing My Library

An Elegy and Ten Digressions

Alberto Manguel

The Social Life of Books

Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Abigail Williams

The Guermantes Way

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3

Marcel Proust

Edited by William C. Carter

Beowulf

Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Haunted

On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds

Leo Braudy

Jane Austen

A Brief Life

Fiona Stafford

Eternity's Sunrise

The Imaginative World of William Blake

Leo Damrosch

Proust

The Search

Benjamin Taylor

Latest Readings

Clive James

Hans Christian Andersen

European Witness

Paul Binding

Curiosity

Alberto Manguel

Franz Kafka

The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Saul Friedländer

Eugene O'Neill

A Life in Four Acts

Robert M. Dowling

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2

Marcel Proust

Edited by William C. Carter

The Little Review "Ulysses"

James Joyce, Mark Gaipa, Sean Latham and Robert Scholes

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Translated by Marian Schwartz

Edited by Gary Saul Morson

Making Make-Believe Real

Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time

Garry Wills

The Power of Knowledge

How Information and Technology Made the Modern World

Jeremy Black

Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

The Literary Churchill

Author, Reader, Actor

Jonathan Rose

The Allure of the Archives

Arlette Farge

Foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis

Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton

Rhyme's Reason

A Guide to English Verse

John Hollander

Foreword by J. D. McClatchy

The Invention of News

How the World Came to Know About Itself

Andrew Pettegree

The International Novel

Annabel Patterson

Jonathan Swift

His Life and His World

Leo Damrosch

Faust

A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Translated by Martin Greenberg

Introduction by W. Daniel Wilson

The Humanist Comedy

Alexander Welsh

Jews and Words

Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger

Reading Dante

Giuseppe Mazzotta

Swann's Way

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1

Edited by William C. Carter

Marcel Proust

The Golden Ass

Apuleius

Translated by Sarah Ruden

The Woman Reader

Belinda Jack

Dream in Shakespeare

From Metaphor to Metamorphosis

Marjorie Garber

The Event of Literature

Terry Eagleton

The Shadow of a Great Rock

A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible

Harold Bloom

The Anthology of Rap

Edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois

Foreword by Jr. Gates Henry Louis

A Reader on Reading

Alberto Manguel

Marking the Hours

English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570

Eamon Duffy

Why Translation Matters

Edith Grossman

Thinking in Circles

An Essay on Ring Composition

Mary Douglas

Reading Matters

Five Centuries of Discovering Books

Margaret Willes

The American Play

1787-2000

Marc Robinson

Richard III

William Shakespeare

Edited by Burton Raffel

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Edited by Burton Raffel

Walden

A Fully Annotated Edition

Henry David Thoreau and Jeffrey S. Cramer

Othello

William Shakespeare

Edited by Burton Raffel

Playwriting

The Structure of Action

Sam Smiley

Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Edited by Stephen Booth

Lancelot

The Knight of the Cart

Chrétien de Troyes

Translated by Burton Raffel

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

Edited by Susanne Fusso

Translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney

Ariadne's Thread

Story Lines

J. Hillis Miller

Allegories of Reading

Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

Paul de Man