Books & Reading

The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers together with...

After over ten years of research into the settings in the Cotswold shires that Professor Tolkien turned from reality into fantasy, Steve Ponty explores the locations that serve as the true inspiration for the Shire in The Lord of the Rings. By reversing...

Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies. Discussing canonical modernist writers such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot alongside less familiar writers such as Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, the guide...

In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above...

After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461315Author Pamela ErensFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing

On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations"Some years later, George Plimpton offered to punch me in the nose," recounts Rick...

In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its...

The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937539033Author Charles E JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 281Imprint Executive BooksPublisher Executive BooksWeight(grams) 499g

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"The essential guide to the wild uncharted world of contemporary and 20th century writing." Robert McCrum, The Observer Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be daunting. The Bloomsbury Good Reading...

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A reissue of the book that first examined the future of reading and literature in the electronic age, now with a new introduction and Afterword In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned...

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Following the success of the Ultimate Book Guide 8-12, people have been crying out for this guide to the best teenage books around. Again this is the only reference you'll ever need - covering everything that might interest teen readers, from those just...

A fully revised and updated second edition of the best-selling Ultimate Teen Book Guide, this book is the only reference you'll ever need, covering everything from classics to newly released titles, graphic novels to cult fiction. Each review is a...

This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature. It studies the ways eighteenth-century English novels, plays and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498216500Author Eva Marta BaillieFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579102869Author William T SheddFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 144g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998761268Author Marion HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Red Mango PublishingPublisher Red Mango PublishingWeight(grams) 86g

How studying material texts can help us better understand the diversity of the Americas, past and present A Hawai’ian quilt stitched with anti-imperial messages; a Jesuit report that captures the last words of a Wendat leader; an invitation to a ball,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307745248Author Orhan PamukFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204g

There they sit, the great tomes of classical literature, taunting you with their length and difficulty, as you ask: which books are the most important and why - and what's actually any good? Why does most writing about the classics have words like...

Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other. We live in an era when book clubs, bibliomemoirs,...

Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country's foremost twentieth-century publishing houses. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720054849Author NegrFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632460875Author Steve AlmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing

Whether curled up on a sofa with a good mystery, lounging by the pool with a steamy romance, or brooding over a classic novel, Americans love to read. Despite the distractions of modern living, nothing quite satisfies many individuals more than a really...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798599365471Author Nirmal BikashFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 216g