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The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745426Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of...

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...

This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, Toibin brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view. Known for his acuity...

This beautiful hardcover edition of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women makes a great gift for yourself or someone you love. Enjoy these 101 unique, daily devotions, each with with scripture, a true story, and a custom-written prayer!...

A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times [London])A Penguin Classic"Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we...

'Poignant and fiercely intelligent, this is the best work of creative non-fiction I have read in years' FIONA MOZLEY'Profound, moving and courageous' NICHOLAS ALLEN, IRISH TIMESIn April 1931, modernist poet Hart Crane arrived in Mexico City. Between mood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739136109Author David VernonFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Endellion PressPublisher Endellion PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of...

Autobiography of Mark Twain READER'S EDITION Now Available! Half the Size, All the Twain! ISBN 978052027255 "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have...

Autobiography of Mark Twain READER'S EDITION Now Available! Half the Size, All the Twain! ISBN 978052027255 "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have...

In The Value of Herman Melville, Geoffrey Sanborn presents Melville to us neither as a somber purveyor of dark truths nor as an ironist who has outthought us in advance but as a quasi-maternal provider, a writer who wants more than anything else to...

'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-si`ecle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the...

In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews,...

Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came to Europe in 1908 and settled in London, where he became a central figure in the literary and artistic world, befriended by Yeats and a supporter of Eliot and Joyce, among others. In 1920 he moved to...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934–June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' and 'The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474481977Author Peter AdkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others...

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every...

Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts.Complaining that his age was 'retrospective', Emerson injected enthusiasm into American literature as a way of making it new. 'What,' he...

This collection of recent essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls demonstrates the centrality of this Spanish Civil war novel in the author's life and canon and reestablishes the book's status as an American masterpiece. It provides a long...

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death...

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942956082Author Christopher CarmonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006429Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 133mm * 13mm

Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and...

2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies ...

This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439193778Author David BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait, covering Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single highly readable and challenging narrative, in a way that has not been done before, the illuminating story of his life, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147679Author Victor BockrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859654296Author Paul PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816629336Author James BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how...

During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array of disciplines. Over ten years, White conducted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986600418Author R. CristiFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Psylon PressPublisher Psylon PressWeight(grams) 116g

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United...

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of...