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Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm 9781783788378
RRP: £10.99£7.32For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here, Malcolm turns her gimlet eye on her own life,... -
Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Sabina Knight 9780195392067
RRP: £8.99£6.45Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story by Martin Scofield
RRP: £22.99£19.56This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver... -
Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness by Rebecca Shannonhouse 9780375755026
£15.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375755026Author Rebecca ShannonhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238g -
The Essential W.S. Merwin by W S Merwin 9781556595134
RRP: £18.00£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595134Author W S MerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9780393624540
RRP: £12.99£11.46This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The 1905 book edition of the novel, complete with A. B. Wenzell's eight original illustrations. * A preface and explanatory footnotes by Elizabeth Ammons. * An abundant selection of contextual material, including... -
Triggered Literature: Cancellation, Stealth Censorship and Cultural Warfare by John Sutherland 9781785908170
RRP: £18.99£13.81Amid the flames of the culture wars, politicians have taken up arms over controls on literary culture, spurred on in part by universities 'triggering' canonical texts. Jonathan Swift's 'Battle of the Books' has flared up again. But is 'triggering' utter... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by John Sutherland
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies 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 -
On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal by Rachel Greenwald Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.10A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal society's tendency to view compromise as an unalloyed good-politically, ethically, and artistically. In... -
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do by Meredith Maran
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298156Author Meredith MaranFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 196g -
Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text by Albert Rolls
RRP: £19.99£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224555Author Albert RollsFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin
RRP: £22.99£19.56Emily 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... -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: £14.99£13.03In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the... -
Love, Janis by Laura Joplin 9780060755225
RRP: £9.99£7.77A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her younger sister. Janis Joplin blazed across the sixties music scene, electrifying audiences with her staggering voice and the way she seemed to pour her very... -
Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale by Andrew J. Rausch
RRP: £24.95£15.27Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience... -
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £7.99£5.79Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction... -
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: £22.99£15.57Apologies 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 -
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780198848110
RRP: £9.99£7.11The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from indulged only child to disillusioned war veteran, This... -
Critical Studies: The Great Gatsby by Kathleen Parkinson
RRP: £7.99£5.79Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of... -
Last Kiss by F. Scott Fitzgerald
£22.29Last 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... -
Voicing America: Language, Literary Form and the Origins of the United States by Christopher Looby
RRP: £24.00£23.03How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of 18th-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and... -
The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner by Philip M. Weinstein 9780521421676
RRP: £30.99£26.77Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Free World: A Cultural History of the Cold War by Louis Menand
RRP: £30.00£27.68Shortlisted 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 Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: £12.99£9.09Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy... -
Wrap It In A Bit of Cheese Like You're Tricking The Dog: The fifth collection of essays and emails by New York Times Best Selling author, David Thorne. by David Thorne 9780988689558
RRP: £18.16£16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689558Author David ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint 27bslash6Publisher 27bslash6Weight(grams) 281g -
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David M. Halperin 9780195111279
RRP: £22.49£15.24`My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation,' Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died of AIDS in... -
Understanding Cormac McCarthy by Steven Frye 9781611170184 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.95£20.38Named by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize... -
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £11.99£8.43A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to... -
In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz by Amy Scholder 9780802136718
RRP: £12.99£9.70Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called "an acute observer of the unmapped region surrounding his heart and one of the best writers... -
The Journals by John Cheever
RRP: £12.99£9.09John 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... -
Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them by Emily Dickinson
RRP: £36.95£29.38Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's... -
Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings 9780871401540
RRP: £12.99£9.92The 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 Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172834Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Soul of a People: The Wpa Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America by David A Taylor 9781684425204
RRP: £11.99£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684425204Author David A TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857151886
RRP: £15.99£11.61An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, and his passions for... -
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie 9780374529215
RRP: £11.99£9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529215Author Paul ElieFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 612g -
A Catch of Anti-Letters by Thomas Merton
£16.06To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781556127120Author Thomas MertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sheed & Ward,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200417
RRP: £8.99£6.67The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of... -
W. H. Auden Prose Volume 3 (1949-1955) by W. H. Auden
RRP: £40.00£27.68This 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... -
Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents by Dennis Walder
RRP: £43.49£41.26This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage...