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The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster
RRP: $29.38$21.99The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship... -
Transcendentalism: A Reader by Joel Myerson 9780195122138
RRP: $142.80$110.38The 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... -
How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson 9781250193421
RRP: $46.18$27.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250193421Author Blythe RobersonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop by Anne Stevenson
RRP: $27.28$20.37Elizabeth 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... -
Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
RRP: $42.00$32.89Apologies 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: $46.18$30.53Apologies 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 -
Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History by Cathy Caruth 9781421421650
RRP: $55.65$48.91In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century-both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it-we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple... -
Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerso Jeffrey S. Cramer 9781640093836
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093836Author Jeffrey S. CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Maus Now by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $42.00$30.01A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about... -
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies 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: $31.48$24.68THE 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: $38.83$32.84In 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... -
Bukowski, a Life: The Centennial Edition by Neeli Cherkovski
RRP: $29.38$20.29The 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... -
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris 9780316301183
RRP: $94.50$69.97Apologies 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: $42.00$28.04The 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: $65.08$56.51Few 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... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: $27.28$19.09'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... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: $23.08$15.37ONE 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.'... -
Walk It Off, Princess by David Thorne 9780988689589
RRP: $38.14$33.79Apologies 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 -
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini 9780307386182
RRP: $36.37$27.99Apologies 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: $90.28$76.00The 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: $37.78$25.49In 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... -
Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction by Peter Kemp 9780300269628
RRP: $42.00$35.66The 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... -
Oxford Literature Companions: The Great Gatsby by Garrett O'Doherty 9780198398967
RRP: $20.98$20.14Easy 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,... -
Notes on Blood Meridian: Revised and Expanded Edition by John Sepich
RRP: $41.98$36.83Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850,... -
Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
RRP: $48.30$35.05Apologies 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 -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $16.78$11.36From 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 Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany by Donald E. Westlake
RRP: $37.80$32.34Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one - but two - long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. In the six years since his death, Westlake's... -
Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature by Angela Leighton
RRP: $71.30$58.40Hearing 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... -
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922 by Ernest Hemingway 9780521897334
RRP: $52.50$42.29With 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... -
A Ring Of Conspirators: Henry James And His Literary Circle, 1895-1915 by Miranda Seymour 9780743232203
RRP: $20.98$13.46Henry James left London in 1897 to spend the last two decades of his life in East Sussex where his neighbours included H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad. In this widely admired study Miranda Seymour aims to cut through 'the mass... -
Constructing a Nervous System: Cultural Reckonings by Margo Jefferson
RRP: $35.68$25.79FROM 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... -
Stealing Through Time: On the Writings of Jack Finney by Jack Seabrook 9780786424375
RRP: $46.18$37.74The writings of twentieth-century author Jack Finney are classic contributions to the genres of science fiction and suspense thrillers in American literature. Two of Finney's novels, ""The Body Snatchers"" and ""Good Neighbor Sam"", became the basis of... -
Truman Capote by George Plimpton 9780385491730
RRP: $42.00$33.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385491730Author George PlimptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Would You Rather...: Over 200 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder by David Gomberg 9780452278516
RRP: $40.11$30.66The 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... -
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 9780393938531
$25.98This Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition of the novel, accompanied by Michael Gorra's introduction and explanatory footnotes. Background and contextual materials centering on James as a writer, The Portrait of a Lady in revision,... -
Ayn Rand for Beginners by Andrew Bernstein
RRP: $27.28$20.20Apologies 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 -
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel by Steven Weisenburger 9780820328072
$67.64Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of the indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's ""Gravity's Rainbow"". Steven Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through... -
You are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds by Jenny Lawson 9781250119889
RRP: $27.28$25.91A 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... -
Cane by Jean Toomer 9780393931686
$29.99Originally 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...