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This is the fifth volume to be published in the ongoing complete edition of Auden's works, under the editorship of Edward Mendelson. It includes the essays, reviews, and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 -- when he...

No other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication in 1926. Carl Van Vechten's novel generated a storm of controversy because of its scandalous title and fed an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602863347Author Iliza ShlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814201862Author HawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 849Imprint 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 9781909631137Author Maureen FreelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714526096Author Hugh KennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's distinguished artistic career. The present book interprets the songs recorded for Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams by a single singer/dreamer. These...

For centuries, a central goal of art has been to make us see the world with new eyes. Thinkers from Edmund Burke to Elaine Scarry have understood this effort as the attempt to create new forms. But as anyone who has ever worn out a song by repeated...

With a career spanning 50 years, Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most prolific and popular American writers of the 20th century. Though his works have often met with mixed reviews, and have been difficult to categorize, his status of cultural icon and one of...

Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing-or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick...

Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called Infinite Jest a...

William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded)...

Wald offers a comprehensive history and reconsideration of the U.S. literary left in the mid-twentieth century. Recovering the central role Marxist-influenced writers played in fiction, poetry, theater, and literary criticism, he explores the lives and...

Beginning with the stock market crash of 1929 and ending with America's entry into the Second World War, the long Depression decade was a period of immense social, economic and political turmoil. In response, writers as various as John Dos Passos,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999675202Author Gwyn SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Lawson Publishing LimitedPublisher Lawson Publishing Limited

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807178591Author Gavin Cologne-BrookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 152g

Scholars and students alike will turn to Caroline Zilboorg's edition of H.D.'s Bid Me to Livefor an introduction that provides heretofore unavailable insights and annotations that elucidate the book's countless literary and biblical allusions. A useful,...

Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature.This sourcebook combines accessible...

When Walt Whitman self-published a collection of 12 poems entitled Leaves of Grass in 1855, he was an unknown, but ambitious, journalist from Long Island - by the time of his death he was beginning to be recognised as one of the most distinctive poetic...

This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American...

Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns...

Sloane Tanen's irresistible chickens are back. Join these fluffy, yellow, surprisingly human chicks - who made their first appearance in Tanen's hit, "Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same" - as they tell a new set of stories in their exquisitely crafted...

"Wilson does a great service in resurrecting one of O'Connor's lesser-known works."--Publishers Weekly When celebrated American novelist and short story writer Flannery O'Connor died at the age of thirty-nine in 1964, she left behind an unfinished...

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501162060Author Clive CusslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752155Author Paris ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days...

A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem...

Metafictionality has become the cornerstone of the stylistic zeitgeist of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century. This trend reaches back to literary experiments first undertaken and developed during the science fictional New...

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age. Realism after the Individual offers a new...

How the legacy of the Civil War-as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time-has shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick...

This book provides new information about Emily Dickinson as a writer and new ways of situating this poet in relation to nineteenth-century literary culture, examining how we read her poetry and how she was reading the poetry of her own day. Cristanne...

Approaches Italian American literature from new critical perspectives and explores contemporary and understudied voices from both the United States and Canada.Italian Americans on the Page fills a significant gap in Italian American and Italian diaspora...

This is a small sampling of Mark Twain's life-long fulminations against the editors, printers, and proofreaders who, subtly or grossly, altered his work and shrouded his intentions as they transmitted his writing from manuscript to type. Through...

As the body politics of life writing in the United States change, illness and disability memoirs receive considerable attention. Although these narratives are framed by a lack of health, they abundantly present health and do so beyond its binary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555915551Author Anne HanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Fulcrum Inc.,USPublisher Fulcrum Inc.,USWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsA fascinating study of the publication history and public reception of a propaganda work by a major American author. Coers has given us a testimonial to the written word...

Pulitzer Prize--winning author Richard Ford is a leading figure among American writers of the post--World War II generation. His novel The Sportswriter (1986), along with its sequel Independence Day (1995)--the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476698014Author Brenda S TolianFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc