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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780679783220
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783220Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)... -
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.72WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory... -
Running With The Bulls by Valerie Hemingway 9780345467348
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467348Author Valerie HemingwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)... -
The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong by David Orr 9780143109570
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £16.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109570Author David OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *... -
The Haunting Of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body by Travis M. Foster
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.09The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a... -
The Internet is a Playground by David Thorne 9780988689503
RRP: £18.16Booksplease Price: £17.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689503Author David ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint 27bslash6Publisher 27bslash6Weight(grams) 290g -
Herman Melville by Kevin J. Hayes 9781780238074
Booksplease Price: £17.06American novelist and poet Herman Melville is considered by many to be the finest author his nation has produced. Born in New York in 1819, he achieved recognition as a leader of world literature with his daring stylistic innovations, and his masterpiece... -
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 9781420927061
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420927061Author Walt WhitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm -
We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £29.36The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go... -
H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West by Author S T Joshi 9781587150685
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587150685Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One-Hundred Years of the Great Gatsby John Marsh 9781685900830
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900830Author John MarshFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Play Goes On: A Memoir by Neil Simon 9780684869803
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Picking up where the highly praised REWRITES ended, Neil Simon presents the second act of the comedy-drama of his own life. THE PLAY GOES ON takes readers from the mid-1970s to the present, a period during which Simon wrote some of his best and most... -
The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy by Steven Frye 9781107644809
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.09Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably... -
Read 'em and Weep: A Bedside Poker Companion by John Stravinsky 9780060559595
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060559595Author John StravinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 195g -
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859624Author Maureen JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. 'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me... -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.98From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason. 'The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age' David Grann ... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by John Sutherland
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776014Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated by Gertrude Stein 9781594204609
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594204609Author Gertrude SteinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 970gDimensions(mm) 243mm *... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922 by Ernest Hemingway 9780521897334
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.59With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and actions of one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century in... -
J.d. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195896Author David StreitfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, Revised and Expanded Edition by Simon Karlinsky
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.30Simon Karlinsky has substantially expanded and revised the first edition of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson's correspondence to include fifty-nine letters discovered subsequent to the book's original publication in 1979. Since then, five volumes of... -
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings by Walt Whitman 9780393974966
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.95Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as "Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. While continuing to provide... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.67Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover... -
Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism: Second Edition by Henry A. Giroux 9781636674391
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.70In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust... -
The Free World: A Cultural History of the Cold War by Louis Menand
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.64Shortlisted 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,... -
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £19.42In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how... -
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143039532Author Dorothy ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books by Ursula K Le Guin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358212102Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £9.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745426Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Last Kiss by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Booksplease Price: £23.00Last Kiss brings together some of the most interesting and idiosyncratic of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writings from throughout his career. Included in this volume are Fitzgerald's Thoughtbook, a revealing adolescent diary; an amusing self-interview, written... -
Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (loa #325): Run, River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It As It Lay A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album by Joan Didion
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £22.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536454Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 950Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Plainwater: Essays And Poetry by Anne Carson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708428Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings 9780871401540
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last... -
The Cambridge History of American Poetry by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £42.09The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars,... -
Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished - 2014 Update by Rocky Wood 9781623300524
Booksplease Price: £6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623300524Author Rocky WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Overlook Connection PressPublisher Overlook Connection PressWeight(grams)... -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.01From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov by Robert Golla 9781496820242
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century's master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature...