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Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity by Jonathan White
€15.82During 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... -
Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins by Artemis Leontis 9780691210766
RRP: €26.18€22.82The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis book tells the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and... -
How to Die Alone: The Foolproof Guide to Not Helping Yourself by Mo Welch 9781523504268
RRP: €15.41€10.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523504268Author Mo WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 157mm * 160mm... -
Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson by Martha Nell Smith
RRP: €30.93€26.23Emily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery... -
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura 9780231163026
RRP: €26.18€20.22Winner 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... -
The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9780393264890
€18.31This second edition also includes: revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface and a note on the text by Leland S. Person; key passages from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and... -
The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 by Donald Allen
RRP: €32.13€24.55With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in... -
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend by Roy Morris, Jr. 9781421431536
RRP: €24.40€19.92The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The... -
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition by Mark Twain 9780520267190
RRP: €45.22€36.94Autobiography 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... -
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition by Catherine J. Golden
RRP: €35.69€31.70In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work, The Yellow Wall-Paper, generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed... -
The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by Samuel R. Delany
RRP: €20.22€18.02Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school... -
Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" by Graley Herren
RRP: €28.55€24.92Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's distinguished artistic career. The present book interprets the songs recorded for Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams by a single singer/dreamer. These... -
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
RRP: €16.66€11.11Apologies 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... -
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature by Margaret Atwood
RRP: €15.46€10.27When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished,... -
The Red Badge of Courage: A Norton Critical Edition by Stephen Crane
€20.10The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured "Backgrounds and Sources" section that illuminates the social and intellectual climate of the 1890s and includes thought-provoking material by Jay Martin, Charles J. LaRocca, and Perry Lentz on... -
Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 535 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown
RRP: €21.41€13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538729137Author Kelly Williams BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Grand Central Life & StylePublisher Grand Central Life & Style -
Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture by Annie McClanahan 9781503606586
RRP: €28.55€24.29Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture-from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies-has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of... -
Selected Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 9780140390643
€14.72Longfellow 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... -
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller 9780811203227
RRP: €14.27€13.78One 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... -
The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession by Stephen M. Best
RRP: €38.08€37.02In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of... -
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan 9781476753614
RRP: €28.56€18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476753614Author KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Medallion Status by John Hodgman
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561125Author John HodgmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks by Dave Kyu 9781680511444
RRP: €20.17€16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDave Kyu is a socially-engaged artist, writer, and project manager. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, he explores the creative tensions... -
The Awakening: And Other Stories by Kate Chopin
RRP: €10.70€6.52'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story,... -
The American Short Story Since 1950 by Kasia Boddy
RRP: €29.74€26.05The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It offers new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O'Connor, John... -
Cormac Mccarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature by Lydia R. Cooper 9781526172051
RRP: €23.80€17.29Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy’s literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and... -
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith
RRP: €33.32€25.42How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious"Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it-most of which emanate... -
American Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to US Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843449188
RRP: €15.46€10.33Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the... -
Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem by Frank Doggett
RRP: €31.54€27.16Originally published in 1980. Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem emphasizes the ideas that Wallace Stevens embeds in his poetry, providing the first study to provide an intellectual biography of Stevens. It examines Stevens' naturalism, his ideas of... -
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn
RRP: €39.27€35.65Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from... -
War Isn't the Only Hell: A New Reading of World War I American Literature by Keith Gandal 9781421425108
RRP: €46.41€40.51American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army's unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign men-except, notoriously,... -
Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams by Bram Dijkstra
RRP: €35.70€34.66Previous studies of William Carlos Williams have tended to look only for the literary echoes in his verse. According to Bram Dijkstra, the new movements in the visual arts during the 1920s affected Williams's work as much as, if not more than, the new... -
The Life of Robert Frost: A Critical Biography by Henry Hart
RRP: €45.16€35.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119103646Author Henry HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher Wiley-BlackwellWeight(grams) 152g -
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying: Essays, Articles, Reviews by Nicolas Tredell
€31.31Now recognized as two of Faulkner's greatest novels, "The Sound and the Fury" (1929) and "As I Lay Dying" (1930) were commercial failures in the decade following their publication. By the end of the Second World War, however, the reputation of both... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction by Catherine Ross Nickerson
RRP: €27.36€27.19From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide... -
The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings by Jack Kerouac
RRP: €40.45€25.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534986Author Jack KerouacFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity by Iliza Shlesinger
RRP: €22.60€13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602863347Author Iliza ShlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide by Christopher Gair
RRP: €11.89€8.72The Beat Generation were a radical group of American writers whose relaxed, gritty and candid writing inspired generations. In his chronicle of the origins, adventures, and inner workings of the Beat movement, Christopher Gair reveals how it sparked one... -
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra 9780871404084
RRP: €28.55€24.41Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of... -
A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy by Petra Mundik
€40.88A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of...