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  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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

    by Christopher Ricks ...

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.79 USD

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  • The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II

    Practical Cats and Further Verses

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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    Scary Dead Things

    A Vampire Comedy Catastrophe

    by Rick Gualtieri ...
    Narrated by Christopher John Fetherolf ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Tome of Bill

    Unabridged

    7 hours 30 min

    THERE ARE REASONS WE FEAR THE NIGHT. HE STILL ISN’T ONE OF THEM.My name’s Bill Ryder and six months ago I died. However, I didn’t stay dead. Instead, I woke up a vampire, freshly recruited into a coven of immortal assholes.I thought I’d earned a break after defeating our former master, with maybe a bit of help from my friends, but no such luck.Now things are getting surreal in the world of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Tome of Bill Series, The - Volume 2

    Books 5 - 8

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

    Unabridged

    55 hours 58 min

    IT’S HARD TO LIVE FOREVER WHEN THE WHOLE WORD WANTS YOU DEAD.Prepare to die screaming with laughter with the final FOUR novels of The Tome of Bill series – over 50 hours of laugh-out-loud horror comedy.Gamer turned vampire Bill Ryder would rather play D&D than take this supernatural shit seriously. Too bad the ancient horrors threatening the world don’t appreciate his attitude.Includes:GODDAMNED ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selected Poems

    by Alfred Lord Tennyson ...
    'Tennyson', wrote T. S. Eliot, 'has the finest ear of any English poet since Milton,' and his verse remains unrivalled in its combination of verbal richness, emotional depth and intellectual engagement. Tennyson drew on classical and medieval legends in poems like 'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) and 'The Lady of Shalott' (1832) to explore the spiritual tensions of the nineteenth century. In one of the ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • 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

    $14.59 USD

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    Bill The Vampire

    A Comedy of Undead Proportions

    by Rick Gualtieri ...
    Narrated by Christopher John Fetherolf ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Tome of Bill

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    THERE ARE REASONS WE FEAR THE NIGHT. HE’S NOT ONE OF THEM.My name’s Bill and I have no life, but not because I enjoy video games or D&D. I literally have no heartbeat thanks to the night I met Sally. She was too good to be true, a woman worth dying for. So, I did.Problem is, I didn’t stay dead.Now I’m a vampire, surrounded by undead freaks who are stronger and faster than me – not to mention ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book One: The Sword of Summer

    by Rick Riordan ...
    Narrated by Christopher Guetig ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Rick Riordan's Norse Mythology

    Unabridged

    15 hours 21 min

    Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers.One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he barely knows-a man his mother claimed was dangerous. Uncle Randolph tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god.The Viking myths ... Read more

    $27.50 USD