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Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls 9780226599373
RRP: £19.00£13.23"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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan by Kevin J. H. Dettmar 9780521714945
RRP: £22.99£19.56A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Edith Wharton by Pamela Knights 9780521687195
RRP: £19.99£17.13Born in New York into a world of wealth and privilege, and writing with unique insight into the lives of the rich and fashionable, Edith Wharton was a best-seller in her time, and is now, again, one of the most widely read American authors. This book... -
Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos by Kim Addonizio 9780446679046 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.27Previously considered the domain of bikers and a rite of passage in the services, tattoos have crawled out society's fringes and onto the ankles of starlets and the biceps of bankers. In this volume writers like Herman Melville, Elizabeth McCracken, Ray... -
Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos by Kim Addonizio 9780446679046
RRP: £16.99£15.36Previously considered the domain of bikers and a rite of passage in the services, tattoos have crawled out society's fringes and onto the ankles of starlets and the biceps of bankers. In this volume writers like Herman Melville, Elizabeth McCracken, Ray... -
Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins by Artemis Leontis 9780691210766
RRP: £25.00£24.64The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis book tells the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and... -
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling by Erica Fretwell
RRP: £24.99£20.01In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780393924664
RRP: £13.99£12.65This Norton Critical Edition brings to life-through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others-the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists by Timothy Parrish
RRP: £26.99£22.80This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics... -
Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr. by J. W. Ernst 9780823215591
RRP: £45.00£34.12Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between John D. Rockefeller and his son. Still others were... -
FML: And You Thought You'd Had a Bad Day... by Didier Guedj 9781843178828 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.13The idea is simple: in a few sentences, people describe the moments that have ruined their day. These snapshot anecdotes are embarrassing, humiliating, horrific - and very, very funny. Perhaps worst of all, they're all 100 per cent real...*** Today, I... -
Uncle John's Fourth Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Reader's Hysterical Society 9780312064846
RRP: £19.99£12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312064846Author Bathroom Reader's Hysterical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins... -
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend by Roy Morris, Jr. 9781421431536
RRP: £20.50£16.26The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The... -
Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology by Eric S. Rabkin
RRP: £18.49£13.34An invaluable contribution to the serious study of science fiction as well as a highly entertaining collection, Science Fiction contains 27 chronologically-arranged stories and excerpts, ranging from such early classic works as Swift's Gulliver's Travels... -
The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by Samuel R. Delany
RRP: £16.99£14.80Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school... -
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
RRP: £25.99£20.84What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts-and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading-are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book... -
Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka 9780231185752
RRP: £30.00£23.29The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic... -
Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction Since 1970 by Kenneth Millard 9780198711780
RRP: £48.99£44.97Contemporary American Fiction provides an introduction to American fiction since 1970. Offering substantial and detailed interpretations of more than thirty texts by thirty different writers, Millard combines them in an innovative critical structure... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry by Kerry Larson
RRP: £22.99£19.56This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide variety of authors, many of whom are currently being rediscovered. A number of anthologies in the recent past have... -
M: Writings, 1967-72 by John Cage 9780714511351
RRP: £15.95£13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714511351Author John CageFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing by Nathaniel Mackey 9780521109994
RRP: £37.99£31.31Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric - black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. Nathaniel Mackey examines the ways in which the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman by Ezra Greenspan
RRP: £22.99£19.56The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the... -
Intimate Nature by Deena Metzger 9780449003008
£15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449003008Author Linda HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 564gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Medallion Status by John Hodgman
RRP: £15.99£11.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561125Author John HodgmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker 9780801881855
RRP: £38.00£34.81Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man who lived among the cannibals!" Until his death in 1891, Melville was known as the author of Typee (1846) and... -
The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner by John T. Matthews
RRP: £22.99£19.56The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety... -
Stephen King: A Biography by Albert Rolls 9780313345722
£38.39Now known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his... -
The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh by Sneharika Roy 9780367890438
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book demonstrates the epic genre's enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the 'postcolonial epic', ushered in by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and... -
Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action by Mark Cirino 9780299286545
RRP: £26.95£20.54Ernest Hemingway's groundbreaking prose style and examination of timeless themes made him one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Yet in Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action, Mark Cirino observes, 'Literary criticism has... -
Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Connie Ann Kirk 9780313332142
£41.69The poet Sylvia Plath has been a cultural icon since 1963 when she took her own life on a cold winter morning at the age of 30. This up-to-date biography explores the nature and sources of the mythology that has surrounded the poet's life by presenting a... -
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century Us Comic Strip by Alex Beringer 9780814258965
£40.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258965Author Alex BeringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
On Cormac McCarthy: Essays On Mexico, Crime, Hemingway and God by Allen Josephs 9780692700617
RRP: £12.99£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692700617Author Allen JosephsFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint New Street Communications, LLCPublisher New Street Communications, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology by Karen L. Kilcup 9780631199861
RRP: £55.95£49.77Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women's expression.About the AuthorKaren L. Kilcup is Professor of American literature... -
The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden and the Flood by Mark Twain 9780820316505
£52.88This volume collects the most important writings by Mark Twain in which he used biblical settings, themes and figures. Featuring Twain's singular portrayals of God, Adam, Eve, Satan, Methuselah, Shem, St. Peter and others, the writings stand among... -
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins by Susan Fraiman 9780231166355
RRP: £22.00£17.36Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic... -
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
£32.89"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease....observing a spear of summer grass." So begins Leaves of Grass,... -
The Theology of John Donne by Jeffrey Johnson
RRP: £19.99£19.39John Donne discussed as an original religious thinker, drawing on his extant sermons for evidence of his personal theology. John Donne is here treated as an original religious thinker; the evidence for the distinguishing features of his theology is... -
The Book of Stupid Questions by Tom Weller 9780446389723
RRP: £14.99£13.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446389723Author Tom WellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 118g -
Conversations with Raymond Carver by Marshall Bruce Gentry 9780878054497
RRP: £29.95£27.41This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of realistic fiction in the wake of postmodern... -
Fictions of Capital: The American Novel from James to Mailer by Richard Godden 9780521064033
RRP: £30.99£25.45Fictions of Capital situates manners and writing about manners in the context of American capitalism between 1880 and 1960, a period that runs from the onset of the sales culture to its war-prompted crisis point in the 1960s. The work of various economic...