Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “joel porte”
Skip side bar filters

  • Consciousness and Culture

    Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed

    by Joel Porte ...
    Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also be seen as bitter rivals: America’s foremost literary statesman, protective of his reputation, and an ambitious and sometimes refractory protégé. The truth, Joel Porte maintains, is that Emerson and Thoreau were ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Liberty

    by Andrea Portes, Joel Silverman ...
    Narrated by Tara Sands ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    The bestselling author of Anatomy of Misfit and The Fall of Butterflies,Andrea Portes, is back with another irresistible snarky heroine in Liberty.What is a hero? Paige Nolan knows. Edward Raynes, the young man who exposed America’s unconstitutional spying techniques, is a hero, even if half the dum-dums in the country think he’s a traitor. Or Paige's parents, journalists who were captured by ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Little Women

    Bonus Audio Excerpt Included

    by Louisa May Alcott ...
    Series series Little Women
    The iconic novel of American girlhood, and basis for the film adaptation by acclaimed writer-director, Greta Gerwig.Beautiful and proper Meg, headstrong Jo, gentle Beth, pampered little Amy—generations of young women have recognized themselves in one or more of the devoted March sisters. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War and the changing seasons of New England, the story of their passage ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Fiction

    A Guide for Writers and Readers

    by Ayn Rand ...
    In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons, i... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview

    And other Conversations

    by Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Ray Bradbury was long the most influential sci-fi writer in the world, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated ManBut he also lived a fascinating life outside the parameters of sci-fi, and was a masterful raconteur of his own story, as he reveals in his wide-ranging and in-depth final interview with his acclaimed biographer, ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Hugging the Shore

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth protest too much: This collection begins somewhere near deep water, with a flotilla of short fiction, humor pieces, and personal essays, and even ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Narrative Prosthesis

    Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

    by David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Cowboy Legend

    Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier

    by John Jennings ...
    Series Book 6 - The West
    The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Wister's novel was to transform, almost overnight, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

    by Professor Gina Wisker ...
    Series series Reader's Guides
    Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tale, engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text. It includes discussion of key themes and concepts ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

    by Tessa Roynon ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Toni Morrison has written some of the most significant and demanding fiction of the modern age. Her dazzling depictions of African-American experience are studied in high schools and colleges, debated in the media and analyzed by scholars at an astounding rate. This Introduction offers readers a guide to the world of Morrison in all its complexity, from her status as a key player on the global ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Literary Friends And Acquaintance

    by William Dean Howells ...
    Mr. William Dean Howells has written many books of several kinds which have entertained a great many people of all kinds, but no single book of any kind in which his various talents appear to such advantage to themselves and enjoyment of their readers as in his 'Literary Friends and Acquaintance', which, briefly described as a personal retrospect of American authorship, is in reality a series of ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus