Books & Reading

When we try to find words to express our most visceral and primary responses to literature, we are often inclined to speak of its power. But in academic contexts, that intuitive feeling for the vividness, energy, and special intensity of literary...

The Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April of 2011 as a humble Tumblr, with a 2600-word essay by Ben Ehrenreich entitled "The Death of the Book." The gesture was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but we meant it to be provocative, and to ask a genuine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626360921Author Jim FlynnFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of copyright material on the internet deprives authors of royalties, and in some cases it has discouraged...

How, and what, children and young adults read are questions bound up with both aspirations and concerns. This book brings together experts from a range of academic disciplines to examine how this reading has been mediated in Anglo-American contexts...

The mass production and dissemination of printed materials were unparalleled in England during the 1640s and 50s. While theatrical performance traditionally defined literary culture, print steadily gained ground, becoming more prevalent and enabling the...

Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 is a literary history of international law in the age of Shakespeare, Milton, Grotius, and Hobbes. Seeking to revise the ways scholars understand early modern English literature in relation to the history of...

Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment that print books remediated...

Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525574972Author Michiko KakutaniFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)...

From the Napoleonic Wars to the invention of the railway to the shell shock of World War I, writers tried to give voice to the suffering that war and industrial technology had wrought all around them. Yet they, like the doctors who treated these victims,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881754Author James CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062696854Author Thomas C FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881723Author David MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry BooksWeight(grams) 295g

The Los Angeles Review of Books launched as online-only magazine in April 2011 to revive the great American tradition of the long form literary and cultural arts review. Today, we've created a new institution for writers and readers, unlike anything else...

The Samoa Reader is a source book on the most extensive controversy in the history of anthropology, touched off by the publication of Derek Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. Freeman's book purported to...

Books and libraries are a cornerstone of education and learning as well as a passport to new worlds for men, women, and children across America and around the world. Published with the American Library Association, Reading with the Stars uses the power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461216Author Kim McLarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639485Author William CraigieFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591366Author Eleanor HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735600109Author Barbara PageFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bauer and Dean PublishersPublisher Bauer and Dean PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461230Author Justin St. GermainFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing

Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and...

What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its...

No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms "a communism of textual matter," Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and...

Robin Hood, whether riding through the glen, robbing the rich to pay the poor or giving the Sheriff of Nottingham his come-uppance, is one of the most captivating and controversial legendary figures. Was there a historical figure behind the legends? Did...

The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had...

Why did Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why do we root for criminal heroes? In mummy movies, why is the skeptic always the first to go? Why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits any more? Why is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Benson Medal Award - Royal Society of Literature 2019 and Honorary Fellow - Royal Society of Literature 2019.Book InformationISBN 9781912408207Author Susheila...

From one of our premier literary scholars, here is a learned and witty introduction to the "sheer vitality of literature and the satisfactions of a close, informed engagement with it" (New York Times). Robert Alter's illumination of the unique power of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258088Author Marco CaraccioloFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

En Abime explores listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as a historically defined cultural experience, and contributes with previously...

Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between...

Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its...

Textual criticism-the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text-is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468310948Author John YorkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm *...

Learn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Literature...

The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451494641Author Haruki MurakamiFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 217mm *...

Does fiction enhance reality, or threaten our sense of what is real? What, if anything, is special about experiencing fictional works and worlds? Today we speak casually of parallel universes and virtual reality; how much do we really know about what...