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Transcendentalism: A Reader by Joel Myerson 9780195122138
RRP: £68.00£52.56The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism... -
Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop by Anne Stevenson
RRP: £12.99£9.70Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in 1998, "Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop" is a highly illuminating reader's guide written by another leading poet, which makes... -
Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature by Angela Leighton
RRP: £33.95£27.81Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration... -
Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
RRP: £20.00£15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394752099Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Bukowski In A Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life by Kim Addonizio
RRP: £21.99£14.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128465Author Kim AddonizioFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198g -
You are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds by Jenny Lawson 9781250119889
RRP: £12.99£12.40A new book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson, destined to be a classic part therapy, part best friend, part humor, part coloring book. When Jenny Lawson is anxious, one of the things she does is to draw. Elaborate doodles, beautiful... -
Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerso Jeffrey S. Cramer 9781640093836
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093836Author Jeffrey S. CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806101Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Dr Steven Powell
RRP: £14.99£11.75THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOE BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL BOOK "As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy novel." - Ian Rankin "A masterpiece of... -
Miss Miles: A Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago by Mary Taylor 9780195064926
RRP: £18.49£15.64In Elizabeth Gaskell's seminal biography The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Gaskell makes extensive use of Charlotte's correspondence with her closest friend, known to readers of that work simply as 'Dear M.' 'M.' was later identified as Mary Taylor, whom... -
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... -
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris 9780316301183
RRP: £45.00£33.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316301183Author David SedarisFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times by Dougald Hine 9781603587419
RRP: £20.00£13.35The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers-Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth-who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time. In a world in which the climate is being altered... -
A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman by David S. Reynolds 9780195120820
RRP: £30.99£26.91Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: £10.99£7.32ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.'... -
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini 9780307386182
RRP: £17.32£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386182Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 329g -
The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature by Tony Tanner 9780521291989
RRP: £42.99£36.19The adopted attitude towards reality and experience in American literature tends to be one of wonder and cultivated naivety rather than analysis and judgement. In this book, Dr Tanner offers some reasons for this and seeks to demonstrate the peculiar... -
Fifty and Other F-Words: Reflections from the Rearview Mirror Margot Potter 9781454927969
RRP: £17.99£12.14In the spirit of Nora Ephron meets Chelsea Handler meets David Sedaris, Margot Potter offers her humorously edgy perspective on navigating life after 50. If you're a woman over 50, you probably feel invisible, or shackled by rules that say what you... -
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... -
The Connell Short Guide To Toni Morrison's Beloved by Theo Tait 9781911187059
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187059Author Tessa RoynonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Walk It Off, Princess by David Thorne 9780988689589
RRP: £18.16£16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689589Author David ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint 27bslash6Publisher 27bslash6Weight(grams) 286g -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is... -
Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
RRP: £23.00£16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168885Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Bukowski, a Life: The Centennial Edition by Neeli Cherkovski
RRP: £13.99£9.66The life of Charles Bukowski-laureate of lowlife Los Angeles-a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator. Neeli Cherkovski began a deep friendship with Bukowski in the... -
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 9780393967944
£14.28"Contexts" constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as well as Wharton's manuscript outlines,... -
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by Michael Gorra
RRP: £14.99£11.80Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the... -
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Kyla Schuller
RRP: £21.99£19.19In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility-the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences-to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges... -
Oxford Literature Companions: The Great Gatsby by Garrett O'Doherty 9780198398967
RRP: £9.99£9.59Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,... -
Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction by Peter Kemp 9780300269628
RRP: £20.00£16.98The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form... -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: £7.99£5.41From 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 ... -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 9780199335558
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and... -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £16.99£12.68'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like nobody else ever had' Jonathan Franzen'[He was] first... -
Conversations with James Baldwin by Fred L. Standley 9780878053896
RRP: £29.95£27.41This collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him... -
Cane by Jean Toomer 9780393931686
£14.28Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, a... -
Constructing a Nervous System: Cultural Reckonings by Margo Jefferson
RRP: £16.99£12.28FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs... -
Would You Rather...: Over 200 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder by David Gomberg 9780452278516
RRP: £19.10£14.60The perfect gag gift that blends absurdity, wit, and pop culture in a collection of laugh-out-loud funny and irresistibly thought-provoking dilemmas.Within these pages are over 200 hilarious questions that ask readers to look deep inside themselves and... -
About Writing by Samuel R. Delany 9780819567161
RRP: £21.95£17.97Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid... -
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Vendler 9780674945753
RRP: £26.95£21.41In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens's short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological... -
Ayn Rand for Beginners by Andrew Bernstein
RRP: £12.99£9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389379Author Andrew BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
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