Books & Reading

An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication via the Liverpool University Press website.Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373911Author Edwin FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709036Author Maureen CorriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

How have women read differently from men through the ages? In all manner of ways, this book asserts. This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091115Author James SalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm * 21mm

Twenty-first-century culture is obsessed with books. In a time when many voices have joined to predict the death of print, books continue to resurface in new and unexpected ways. From the proliferation of "shelfies" to Jane Austen-themed leggings and...

An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous "Readers with an interest in the industry will find plenty of insights...

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the...

Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461520Author Ed SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972436Author Arnold WeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610350013Author Barnaby ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets that caused digital reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon...

An extremely complex, yet widely studied text, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ranks as one of the most scathing satires of British and European society ever published. Students will therefore welcome the publication of Roger Lund's sourcebook, which...

Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded for his reviews in The Washington Post, he picked up an...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been...

In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also...

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan...

This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with...

What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same...

These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences.Eagleton's combative...

Post-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since Andre Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit in their publishing decisions, sometimes even deliberately...

What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature? Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898432Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706394Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence;...

Herodotus has been called by Cicero and other ancient critics `the father of history'. He was in fact the first to make the events of the past the subject of research and verification (historie) and then relate their consequences to the present. The main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335007964Author Shannon ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 218mm...

How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of...

WITH THIS BOOK, 8-12s WILL NEVER AGAIN CRY, 'WHAT WILL I READ NEXT?' The only reference needed - a fully up-to-date guide to the best children's books around - from classics to titles published to the end of 2003. The funny, friendly and frank...

"In art and words, a book lover honors the characters he can't forget."-New York Times Book Review An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel,...

David Winters has quickly become a leading voice in the new landscape of online literary criticism. His widely-published work maps the furthest frontiers of contemporary fiction and theory. The essays in this book range from the American satirist Sam...

Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book AwardA defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon-and gaining new appreciation-amidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops.Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at home and...

Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices. Does death change--and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our experiences...

I wrote a poem this morning, and one of the themes of the poem is that languages are not equivalent, that each language is a new way of feeling the world. Jorge Luis Borges Recorded during Borges' final years, this third volume of his conversations with...

Psy-Complex in Question traces a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex through critical reviews of twenty-five key texts over the last twenty-five years, with an emphasis on recent critical psychological, psychoanalytic and critical social...

This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from...

Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the literature of the English Renaissance. In this early period of print, before the introduction of...

Kilgour's study is a concise history of the book as we know it in all its forms, starting from the very beginning with the invention of writing and concluding at the present time with the electronic revolution and what it may hold for the future. Kilgour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375434Author Rachel EisendrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc