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Walking the Rez Road: Stories by Jim Northrup 9781555919771
RRP: £15.95£12.25Celebrating two decades in publication, this twentieth-anniversary edition of a timeless classic comprises forty stories and poems that feature Luke Warmwater, a Vietnam veteran who survived the war but has trouble surviving the peace.About the AuthorJim... -
American Drama: In Dialogue, 1714-Present by Jacqueline Foertsch
£32.30An essential introductory textbook that guides students through 300 years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of... -
On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy by Catherine Bates
RRP: £29.49£27.15Sidney's Defence of Poesy--the foundational text of English poetics--is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this... -
Minority Report by H. L. Mencken 9780801856587
£20.95In 1956 Mencken could look back on a long and distinguished career that included years at the top of his profession, the publication of three volumes of memoirs, and a steady stream of journalism that made him loved and hated, sometimes by the same... -
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine by Bart D. Ehrman 9780195307139
RRP: £21.49£12.39A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has stood atop The New York Times Bestseller List for well over a year, with millions of copies in print. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that... -
The Long-Legged House by Wendell Berry 9781619020016
RRP: £15.99£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619020016Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present by Sir Theodore Martin 9780231181938
RRP: £22.00£17.36What does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an... -
The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution by Eric Slauter
RRP: £80.00£77.01The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate, so inspired, and so monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial... -
Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780192864635
RRP: £91.00£82.48Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends... -
The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest William, and James Galvin by Mark Tredinnick 9781595340184
RRP: £17.99£13.80At the heart of The Land's Wild Music is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of place Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin author Mark Tredinnick... -
Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats by Robert Inchausti 9781611804171
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804171Author Robert InchaustiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture by Christopher Bigsby
RRP: £33.99£29.66The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social,... -
Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy by Bernice M. Murphy 9780786423125
RRP: £21.99£17.97Shirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1965 she published six novels, one best-selling story collection, two popular volumes of her family chronicles and many stories, which ranged from fairly... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson by Joel Porte 9780521499460
RRP: £22.99£19.56The 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... -
How to Die Alone: The Foolproof Guide to Not Helping Yourself by Mo Welch 9781523504268
RRP: £12.95£8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523504268Author Mo WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 157mm * 160mm... -
The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery: vol III: 1921-1929 by Mary Rubio 9780195418026
£20.59Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874- 1942)-whose Anne of Green Gables and many other novels are loved by readers around the world-kept extensive journals for most of her life.In the 1920s, L.M. Montgomery is in mature mid-life, and her personal and professional... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison by Tessa Roynon 9780521177221
RRP: £19.99£15.23Toni 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... -
The Great Gatsby: An Edition of the Manuscript by F. Scott Fitzgerald
£68.22This edition presents the manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the earliest full version of the novel that survives. Study of this manuscript reveals much about the composition of the novel - about the development of its characters and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry by Walter Kalaidjian
RRP: £22.99£19.56The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the... -
Ezra Pound: The Cantos by George Kearns 9780521336499
RRP: £23.99£20.94Pound's 800 page Cantos, written over a period of more than fifty years (1917-1969), invites the reader to join the poet on a journey from darkness and despair towards light and positive activity. In this book, George Kearns addresses the reader... -
It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics by Francesca Polletta
RRP: £27.00£26.47Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960, four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month,... -
Modernism: A Short Introduction by David Ayers 9781405108539 [USED COPY]
RRP: £29.95£2.09This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature. Provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism. Covers both established works and those that have only... -
Modernism: A Short Introduction by David Ayers 9781405108539
RRP: £29.95£27.45This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature. Provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism. Covers both established works and those that have only... -
The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More. by Jan Karon 9780143112419
RRP: £23.62£18.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112419Author Jan KaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint G.P. Putnam's SonsPublisher G.P. Putnam's SonsWeight(grams) 604g -
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 2, 1851-1891 by Hershel Parker 9780801881862
RRP: £38.00£34.81The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville-a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize-closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an... -
The Cosmic Race / La raza cosmica by Jose Vasconcelos 9780801856556
RRP: £22.50£19.92In this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, Jose Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity would prevail over the rationalism he saw as dominating the present... -
The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo by John N. Duvall 9780521690898
RRP: £22.99£18.92With the publication of his seminal novel White Noise, Don DeLillo was elevated into the pantheon of great American writers. His novels are admired and studied for their narrative technique, political themes, and their prophetic commentary on the... -
The Novel and the New Ethics by Dorothy J. Hale 9781503614062
RRP: £29.99£24.14For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of... -
Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment by Juliana Spahr
RRP: £24.95£19.89In 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Presence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. "Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in... -
Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex by Jessica Hurley 9781517908744
RRP: £22.99£18.37A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project... -
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography by Fred Kaplan
RRP: £30.00£27.35One of the most influential novelists, Henry James led a life that was as rich as his writing. Born into an eccentric and difficult family, he left the United States for Europe, where he quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community. Fred... -
Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era that Shaped his Masterpiece by Andrew Levy 9781439186978
RRP: £17.00£11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439186978Author Andrew LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing by Steven Gilbar
RRP: £26.00£20.73This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers - be they naturalists or armchair explorers - will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the... -
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns by Jane Tompkins 9780195082685
RRP: £23.99£19.16A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing relevance of popular women's fiction in the 19th century, long overlooked or scorned by literary critics. Now, in West of Everything,... -
Novelty: A History of the New by John Lardas Modern
RRP: £18.00£17.59If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new-new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come from... -
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel by Maryemma Graham 9780521016377
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing,... -
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
RRP: £33.95£29.01America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions... -
Illness as Narrative by Ann Jurecic
£41.02For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic... -
Oz and Beyond: Fantasy World of L.Frank Baum by Michael O. Riley 9780700609338
RRP: £32.95£23.44Oz and Beyond provides the first comprehensive analysis of all of Baum's fantasy creations and his evolution as a fantasy writer, demonstrating that Baum has a more consistent and disciplined imagination than is generally recognized. It also explains the... -
Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays by James Richardson 9780967266893
RRP: £17.00£8.72Apologies 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...