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James Ellroy's identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, in 1958, Ellroy's early life played a large...

This work is part of the Continuum Contemporaries series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist, a full-length...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938349812Author Grant HierFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint PelekinesisPublisher PelekinesisWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

Perhaps 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...

Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture employs the revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates Pynchon's commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the New...

Interdisciplinary in scope, this anthology redresses the undue neglect of Anglophone Caribbeans - almost 25 percent of the black population in Harlem in 1920 - and their pivotal role in the literary, cultural, and political events shaping the Harlem...

Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. As the focus of recent major films and a successful...

The 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...

New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as in popular lore and song. This book provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434430823Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The 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...

A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526266Author Burt GlinnFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

Apologies 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

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452260092Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Random House...

An invaluable road map for the epic poem of our timeBook InformationISBN 9780472065240Author Robert PolitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."-Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and...

This collection offers 15 critical essays on Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and its controversial film adaptation by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana and director Ang Lee. Each essay explores the short story, the film,...

The Second World War has been romanticized almost beyond recognition by 'the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty.' In this readable and penetrating study, Paul Fussell goes behind the familiar diplomacy and heroics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645424086Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The authoritative text of Absalom, Absalom!, established by Noel Polk in 1986 and accompanied by Susan Scott Parrish's introduction and explanatory footnotes.Two maps and five other images.A rich selection of...

From 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299177348Author University of Wisconsin PressFormat PaperbackImprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin PressWeight(grams)...

Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps America's most famous writer. Adapted many times to the stage and screen and an inspiration to countless illustrators, graphic novelists, and musicians, his tales and poems remain a singular presence in popular culture. (His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525655015Author Carl HiaasenFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 132mm *...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892950963Author Rocky WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Overlook Connection Press,USPublisher Overlook Connection Press,USWeight(grams)...

The 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Toni Morrison is well established as one of the leading voices in American letters. Even so, her novels are often read narrowly rather than expansively, read as literary artifacts rather than as dynamic cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Gay Nonfiction) 2013. Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780446563130Author Christopher BramFormat...

This 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...

The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe has had a rough ride in America, as Emerson's sneering quip about "The Jingle Man" testifies. That these poems have never lacked a popular audience has been a persistent annoyance in academic and literary circles; that they...

The 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...

In the years between A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway matured as a writer against the backdrop of Cuban revolutions, African game trails, Key West impoverishment, and the Spanish Civil War. He experimented in fiction and...

A close reading of James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" that provides insight into his life and ideas about art. Tom Jenks's reading of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the pattern...

This 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 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...