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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 9781444723250
RRP: $23.08$13.19Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic... -
The Illustrated Walden: or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: $31.48$21.42A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature. "Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next... -
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Reni Eddo-Lodge
RRP: $29.38$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995716223Author Reni Eddo-LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Silver PressPublisher Silver Press -
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $20.98$14.93The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by David... -
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: $27.28$19.09Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics.Dorothy Parker was the most... -
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings by Walt Whitman 9780393974966
$28.83Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as "Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. While continuing to provide... -
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace 9781449486419
RRP: $20.98$13.46Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award, the princess saves herself in this one is a collection of poetry about resilience. It is about writing your own ending. From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the... -
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
RRP: $20.98$14.07Sally Rooney: 'High intelligence and beauty.'Margo Jefferson: 'Extraordinary'Rediscover a lost American classic in this kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one woman's memories, with a new introduction by Eimear McBride. I am alone here in New York, no longer a... -
The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up by James Rallison
RRP: $29.38$20.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131809Author James RallisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art by Nico Israel 9780231153034
RRP: $46.20$35.68In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the twentieth century. Juxtaposing the work of writers and artists-including W. B. Yeats and... -
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 9780393972856
$26.82In 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,... -
Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction by Miriam C. Brown Spiers
$83.18Science fiction often operates as either an extended metaphor for human relationships or as a genuine attempt to encounter the alien Other. Both types of stories tend to rehearse the processes of colonialism, in which a sympathetic protagonist encounters... -
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature by Dan Sinykin 9780231192958
RRP: $52.50$40.28In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought... -
Art Young's Inferno by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $62.98$41.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683962809Author Art YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov by Donna Krolik Hollenberg 9780520272460
RRP: $79.80$62.66This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on... -
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin 9780393935615
$27.99Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771-90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the... -
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher 9780472064922
$43.26The first known mystery written by an African-American, set in 1930s Harlem.Book InformationISBN 9780472064922Author Rudolph FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan... -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: $31.48$24.09John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers,... -
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview by Toni Morrison 9781612198736
RRP: $27.28$18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198736Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Notes on Blood Meridian: Revised and Expanded Edition by John Sepich
RRP: $46.18$39.46Blood 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,... -
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780679783220
RRP: $41.98$28.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783220Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)... -
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 ... -
Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature by Mary K. DeShazer 9780472069095
RRP: $58.70$47.42Looks at the ways that literary artists have responded to women's cancer through poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, and environmental writing. Women have been writing about cancer for decades, but since the early 1990s, the body of literature on... -
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson
RRP: $29.38$20.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859624Author Maureen JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai 9780674024090
RRP: $54.50$42.46Envy, irritation, paranoia-in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which... -
Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
RRP: $46.20$30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601050Author Albert EinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination by Valerie Smith 9781118917695
RRP: $46.10$40.57This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate's aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels. Offers... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
RRP: $44.10$38.14Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define... -
How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson 9781250193421
RRP: $46.18$27.34Apologies 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 *... -
Leaves of Grass (Collins Classics) by Walt Whitman
RRP: $6.28$4.91HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars... First published in 1855, and edited, revised and expanded over... -
Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck
RRP: $27.28$19.09This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of EAST OF EDEN, his longest and most ambitious novel. The letters, ranging over many subjects - textual discussion, trial flights of workmanship, family matters -... -
Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale by Andrew J. Rausch
RRP: $52.40$32.00Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience... -
The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture by Zara Dinnen 9780231184298
RRP: $52.50$40.28Contemporary culture is haunted by its media. Yet in their ubiquity, digital media have become increasingly banal, making it harder for us to register their novelty or the scope of the social changes they have wrought. What do we learn about our media... -
Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
RRP: $16.78$13.27'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... -
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
RRP: $23.08$14.95The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of the year' Suzannah Lipscomb 'Brilliant and... -
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
RRP: $23.08$15.23From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award. When Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college they began a friendship that would define their... -
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
$25.98This Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition text of the novel-the one that had James's final authority-newly and fully annotated by Jonathan Warren.A full introduction, compositional history and textual notes by Jonathan Warren.Revised... -
Love, Janis by Laura Joplin 9780060755225
RRP: $20.98$13.94A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her younger sister. Janis Joplin blazed across the sixties music scene, electrifying audiences with her staggering voice and the way she seemed to pour her very... -
After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s by Samuel S. Cohen 9781587298158
RRP: $77.60$63.78In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that... -
Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780192864635
RRP: $178.50$161.97Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends...