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  • One Art

    Letters

    by Elizabeth Bishop ...
    "These letters, funny, touching, and occasionally harrowing, remind us that this great poet was a remarkable woman as well. Don't miss them." ―Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book WorldRobert Lowell once remarked, "When Elizabeth Bishop's letters are published (as they will be), she will be recognized as not only one of the best, but one of the most prolific writers of our century." One Art is ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Complete Stories

    by Flannery O'Connor ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction.There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find.O'Connor ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Berryman's Shakespeare

    Essays, Letters, and Other Writings

    by John Berryman, Robert Giroux ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet discusses Shakespeare's background, the early dramas, as well as the more mature plays, their texts, and the sonnets."As this book demonstrates, [Berryman] was the greatest Shakespearean of twentieth-century American poets." — The New RepublicJohn Berryman, one of America's most talented modern poets, won the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs and the National Book ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Complete Stories

    by Bernard Malamud ...
    New York Times Notable Book of the YearP ublishers Weekly Best Book of 1997With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the book as they might a displaced person in one ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Watch With Me

    and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch

    by Wendell Berry ...
    “A small treasure of a book . . . part of a long line that descends from Chaucer to Katherine Mansfield to William Trevor.” —Chicago TribuneThis volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World

    by Miles J. Unger ...
    One of The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year“An engrossing read…a historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris” (The Washington Post) and how he achieved his breakthrough and revolutionized modern art through his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.In 1900, eighteen-year-old Pablo Picasso journeyed from ... Read more

    $22.50 CAD

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  • The World Broke in Two

    Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature

    by Bill Goldstein ...
    A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of four revered authors during 1922, the birth year of modernism.A Lambda Literary Awards FinalistNamed a Best Book by NPR's Book ConciergeThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers—Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence—make over the course of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • The Unreal and the Real

    The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    A collection of literary, science fiction, and fantasy short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin—selected with an introduction by the author and combined in one volume for the first time.The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best short stories. Spanning realistic fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, and science fiction, the collection showcases ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Essays After Eighty

    by Donald Hall ...
    The former U.S. Poet Laureate contemplates life, death, and the view from his window in these "a lternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny " essays ( The New York Times).From an early age, Donald Hall dedicated his life to the written word. In his long and celebrated career, he was an accomplished poet, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and children's author. Now, in the "unknown, unanticipated ... Read more

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  • The Violent Bear It Away

    by Flannery O'Connor ...
    Francis Tarwater has always been told that it is his destiny to become a prophet of God. Raised by his uncle, a strict religious zealot, he finds himself resisting the pressure put on him to become a devout Christian. After his uncle dies, Tarwater leaves to live with another uncle, a man who fervently tries to repress Tarwater’s religious education, leaving Tarwater to decide for himself what he ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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  • The Flannery O'Connor Double Pack

    Wise Blood & The Violent Bear It Away

    by Flannery O'Connor ...
    Whilst Flannery O'Connor (1925 – 1964) was better known for her short stories, she did also write two full length novels; "Wise Blood" & "The Violent Bear It Away". These two novels have been included here in one contained volume for you two enjoy.  Wise Blood: The novel concerns a returning World War II veteran who, haunted by a lifelong crisis of faith, resolves to form an anti-religious ... Read more

    $1.24 CAD

  • Wise Blood

    A Novel

    by Flannery O'Connor ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD