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J.d. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies 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 -
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick
RRP: $35.10$19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528584Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux -
A History of American Literature Richard Gray (University of Essex, UK) 9781405192286
RRP: $72.05$65.34Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most... -
The Transnational Beat Generation by Nancy M. Grace 9780230108417
RRP: $87.73$87.69This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the... -
The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers 9780804741088
RRP: $68.25$61.89In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers-in spite of the almost total academic... -
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Kyla Schuller
RRP: $42.88$37.42In 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... -
The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo by Tony Tanner 9780521783743
RRP: $76.03$62.95The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. His work is familiar to generations of students and scholars, and has helped shape our understanding of the major nineteenth and twentieth... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
RRP: $43.86$39.08This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we... -
The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
RRP: $21.43$14.27In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the essay 'The Red Notebook' itself, Auster reflects upon his own work, on the need to break down the boundary... -
Cormac Mccarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" by Stephen Tatum 9780826452467
$35.28This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains... -
Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 9780140390643
$21.86Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works-Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha-as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than... -
The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at its Limits by Jed Esty
RRP: $21.43$18.72As the US becomes a second-place nation, can it shed the superpower nostalgia that still haunts the UK? The debate over the US's fading hegemony has raged and sputtered for 50 years, glutting the market with prophecies about American decline. Media... -
Scotland: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Garry MacKenzie 9781784536411
RRP: $33.13$25.66With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of literature, from the religious poems carved on the rocks of its sacred monuments to the seedy urban novels of... -
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke 9781902669700
RRP: $25.33$23.30Austin Clarke's classic story of British colonial education is the subject of Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. It is the story of a boy whose mother struggled against seemingly impossible odds to give her son the best available education... -
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante
RRP: $48.75$46.68The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations,... -
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America by Xine Yao
RRP: $44.83$39.02In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of... -
James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile by Magdalena J. Zaborowska
RRP: $46.78$41.42Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin's "Turkish decade," Magdalena J. Zaborowska reveals the significant role that... -
Sticking It To The Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 by Andrew Nette
RRP: $64.33$43.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635248Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
RRP: $21.43$15.46Billy Collins is one of the world's most popular poets. While his poems often begin in the everyday and domestic, fans know that they might end anywhere - and that they will lift their heads from the book to a world startlingly different from the one... -
Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape by W Ralph Eubanks 9781604699586
RRP: $48.75$34.96"This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created."... -
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Vendler 9780674945753
RRP: $52.55$41.75In 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth by Timothy Parrish 9780521682930
RRP: $46.78$33.40From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two... -
Outline of American Literature, An Paper by Peter B. High
$77.24A survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of the United States from Colonial times to the1980s. Book InformationISBN 9780582745025Author Peter HighFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LongmanPublisher Pearson Education Limited -
Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly 9780226115047
RRP: $37.05$31.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226115047Author Cyril ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey by Daniel Keyes 9780156029995
RRP: $37.03$25.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156029995Author Daniel KeyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm *... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: I: The Young Genius 1885-1920 by A. David Moody
RRP: $33.13$26.01This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody 9780198704362
RRP: $67.26$49.84This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. The first volumes of Moody's biography have been acclaimed as 'masterly' (Daily Telegraph), 'exceptional' (Literary Review),... -
The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson Joseph Urbas 9780367547837
RRP: $77.98$68.37This study offers the first comprehensive account of Emerson's philosophy since his philosophical rehabilitation began in the late 1970s. It builds on the historical reconstruction proposed in the author's previous book, Emerson's Metaphysics, and like... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years by A. David Moody
RRP: $43.86$37.91The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound weaves together the illuminating story of his life, his achievements as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice. The... -
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
$58.64The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their... -
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose 9780143104407
RRP: $27.30$16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143104407Author Reginald RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 57gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner by John T. Matthews
RRP: $44.83$38.14The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety... -
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton by Millicent Bell 9780521485135
RRP: $64.33$55.34The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton's fiction written both to meet the interest of the student or general reader who encounters this major American writer for the first time and to be valuable... -
U & I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
RRP: $17.53$11.86When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordinary biography. Instead Baker's account of his relationship with his hero is a hilarious story of ambition,... -
Research Methods for English Studies by Gabriele Griffin
RRP: $56.53$45.59This title introduces students to a range of research methods deployed in the study of English. With a revised Introduction and with all chapters revised to bring them completely up-to date, this new edition remains the leading guide to research methods... -
My Life With John Steinbeck: The story of John Steinbeck's forgotten wife Gwyn Steinbeck 9781999675202
RRP: $23.38$16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999675202Author Gwyn SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Lawson Publishing LimitedPublisher Lawson Publishing Limited -
Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England by Zachary McLeod Hutchins 9780199998142
RRP: $179.40$158.79As Christopher Columbus surveyed lush New World landscapes, he eventually concluded that he had rediscovered the biblical garden from which God expelled Adam and Eve. Reading the paradisiacal rhetoric of Columbus, John Smith, and other explorers, English... -
The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock by Jonathan Freedman 9781107514881
RRP: $58.48$51.54Alfred Hitchcock was, despite his English origins and early career, an American master. Arriving on US shores in 1939, for the next three decades he created a series of masterpieces that redefined the nature and possibilities of cinema itself: Rebecca,... -
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9780393966350
$25.99It is fully annotated for undergraduate readers. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a rich selection of materials, some previously unavailable, for the study of contemporary psychological, social, and economic issues, as well as Wharton's private... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara 9780802134523
RRP: $23.38$18.37Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary...