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  • True Friendship

    Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound

    by Christopher Ricks ...
    Series series The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series
    "[From a] critic of unrivaled authority . . .[E]ssays on three late-twentieth-century poets. . . .[and] their literary debts to T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound." — Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of BooksTrue Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell—through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Along Heroic Lines

    by Christopher Ricks ...
    A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, when his inaugural lecture engaged with the illuminatingly puzzled relations between poetry and prose. ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • Elected Friends

    Robert Frost and Edward Thomas: To One Another

    by Christopher Ricks ...
    Robert Frost and Edward Thomas met in a bookshop in London in 1913. During the next four years, the two writers—Frost, an unknown poet who had sold his farm in New Hampshire in order to take his family to England for one last gamble on poetry and Thomas, a sad literary journalist—formed the most important friendship between poets since that of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Their friendship only ended ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    by Laurence Sterne, Sir Christopher Ricks ...
    'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound

    by Christopher Ricks ...

    $19.99 CAD

  • Basic Christianity

    by John Stott ...
    Series series The IVP Signature Collection
    Named a "Book of the Century" by Christianity TodayWho is Jesus Christ? While Jesus and his teaching continue to hold appeal, many people question the plausibility or relevance of the Christian faith. Is it reasonable to believe that Jesus was truly divine? If so, what does it mean for us?John Stott's accessible, classic book examines the historical facts on which Christianity stands. With ... Read more

    $27.57 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Pignon Scorbion & the Barbershop Detectives

    by Rick Bleiweiss ...
    Narrated by Christopher Toyne ...
    Series series The Pignon Scorbion Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    For fans of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, author Rick Bleiweiss’s quirky new detective and ensemble cast of characters set against the backdrop of small-town England in the 1910s will feel both comfortingly familiar and thrillingly new in the first installment of this multi-award-winning series.The year is 1910, and in the small and seemingly sleepy English market town of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • John Donne: Collected Poetry

    by John Donne ...
    Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Collected Poetry reflects this wide diversity, and includes his youthful ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Tennyson

    A Selected Edition

    Edited by Christopher Ricks ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson’s poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson.The collection contains in full all four of Tennyson's long poems: The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Other key works are included from Mariana, The Lady of Shallott, ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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    Goddamned Freaky Monsters

    A Vampire Comedy Nightmare

    by Rick Gualtieri ...
    Narrated by Christophe John Fetherolf ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - The Tome of Bill

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    THERE ARE REASONS WE FEAR THE NIGHT. NOW HE’S TRYING TO STOP THEM.My name’s Bill Ryder and three months ago I was utterly consumed by the evil within me. Now I’m back, having awakened halfway across the globe, buck-ass nude and with no clue as to how I got here. The only thing I’m certain of is my captors don’t care how much blood they spill so long as they recruit me to their insane cause.Escape ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poems of T. S. Eliot, Volume I

    Collected and Uncollected Poems

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    Series Book 1 - Poems of T. S. Eliot
    The first volume of the first paperback edition of The Poems of T. S. EliotThis two-volume critical edition of T. S. Eliot's poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909–1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." In addition to the masterpieces, The Poems of T. S. Eliot ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Half A Prayer

    A Vampire Comedy Misadventure

    by Rick Gualtieri ...
    Narrated by Christopher John Fetherolf ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - The Tome of Bill

    Unabridged

    12 hours 15 min

    TERROR LURKS BELOW AND IT’S ABOUT TO SURFACE.My name is Bill Ryder. With Armageddon rapidly approaching you’d think I’d have my priorities straight, but you’d be wrong. Sidelined from action and with too much time on my hands, I’m stuck obsessing about the ladies in my life, lethal as most of them might be. Too bad it’s a distraction I can ill afford.An unstoppable terror from the dawn of time has ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus