Hazelnut Books
Hazelnut BooksClassic literature elegantly and affordably reprinted, with insightful introductions by scholars who love and respect the Western canon.
Enduring works in beautiful, affordable editions, newly introduced by competent scholars who love our literary heritage.
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's sparkling comedy of wit, deception, and second chances follows the sparring Beatrice and Benedick as they are tricked into confessing their love, while the villainous Don John nearly ruins Hero's and Claudio's happiness. This edition includes an introduction on the play's enduring appeal and its place in the Shakespearean canon.
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William Shakespeare
An unabridged hardcover edition of Shakespeare's comedy of lovers, fairies, and enchanted mischief, illustrated with classic paintings and photographs. Includes an introduction on the play's themes, a brief life of Shakespeare, and a bibliography for further reading.
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Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy's novella of a respectable official who, facing death, must ask whether his life meant anything at all. This edition adds a critical introduction, a sketch of Tolstoy's life, and an examination of the book's great question: how to live, and how to die, well.
Learn More & Purchase on AmazonA journal for your reading life, and essays on literature and the culture that grows from it.
Reader's Companion
A guided companion for readers of the Great Books: fifty review pages with reflection questions, a reading log and wish list, one hundred books to read before you die, literary quotations, and an essay on why great literature still matters.
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Literary Essays
A reader's answer to the political drift of modern criticism: literature approached with celebration rather than suspicion. From Homer and Virgil through Dante, Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Waugh, these essays return to why we read at all—for delight, instruction, and an encounter with the mystery of existence.
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Essays
Essays on education, family, art, economics, homesteading, and philosophy, bound together by wonder and rootedness. Cultural renewal, Larson argues, begins in ordinary things—a well-run household, a great book read slowly, the crackling a wood stove—while the heart reaches through them for the transcendent.
Learn More & Purchase on AmazonHazelnut Books also publishes original novels and short fiction.
Contemporary FictionHazelnut Books is dedicated to the restoration of classic literature through affordable, elegant reprints paired with introductions that choose celebration over suspicion, wonder over weariness, admiration over agenda. On occasion, the press also publishes contemporary fiction and nonfiction in the same spirit.