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Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day...

WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs I have ever read' - Vivian Gornick, author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394752099Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967266893Author James RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Ausable PressPublisher Ausable PressWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601050Author Albert EinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

The life of Charles Bukowski-laureate of lowlife Los Angeles-a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator. Neeli Cherkovski began a deep friendship with Bukowski in the...

Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature. It...

"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small...

This eighteenth and final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), the author's masterpiece. The variorum text is based on multiple witnesses including the extant holograph of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198736Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785583704Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060545840Author Sam WellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934–June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' and 'The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039109128Author Tom MoylanFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 500g

John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807070697Author Nancy MairsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm

John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for...

The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous work still has the capacity to surprise us. Perhaps few admirers of the novel know that it...

The adopted attitude towards reality and experience in American literature tends to be one of wonder and cultivated naivety rather than analysis and judgement. In this book, Dr Tanner offers some reasons for this and seeks to demonstrate the peculiar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDave Kyu is a socially-engaged artist, writer, and project manager. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, he explores the creative tensions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027336258Author Gertrude SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 183gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

What is a princess story? In this subgenre, newly defined in The Princess Story, the protagonist either is a princess or is attempting to become one: the girl transforms into or identifies herself as a princess through marriage or through discovered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914150555Author Molly ClaveringFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Dean Street Press LimitedPublisher Dean Street Press Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767662Author Sofia SamatarFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of...

Hi there, I'm Sherlock Bones - tawny frogmouth skeleton, chief sleuth and star of all museum-related investigations!Today is an exciting day because the museum has a new exhibit - and a new mystery!Together with my partners, the ever-brilliant Watts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385032926Author Thomas MertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

To the "visions of clarity and terror" in that volume the poet now adds the most important poems from his three books published since. The resulting collection is the essential starting place for new readers, the quarry for those familiar with his work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254899Author William S BurroughsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915073037Author Steven MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint SRL PublishingPublisher SRL Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919612805Author Zuni BlueFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Amaria & SarielPublisher Saved Press

The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed to be a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and reading groups, as well as for literature students at school, college and university. The series aims to give readers...

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANSAmerica is at a crossroads.Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's...

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618711970Author Sherill TippinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm *...

Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850,...

This is a collection of thirteen original essays from a team of leading scholars in the field. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors cover a healthy sampling of Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s through to his...

In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this...