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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

By focusing on one literary character, as interpreted in both verbal art and visual art at a point midway in time between the author's era and our own, this study applies methodology appropriate for overcoming limitations posed by historical...

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

The Myth of Print Culture is a critique of bibliographical and editorial method, focusing on the disparity between levels of material evidence (unique and singular) and levels of text (abstract and reproducible). It demonstrates how the particulars of...

Technological innovation has long threatened the printed book, but ultimately, most digital alternatives to the codex have been onscreen replications. While a range of critics have debated the benefits and dangers of this media technology, contemporary...

When the first edition of David Madden's A Primer of the Novel: For Readers and Writers was published more than twenty-five years ago, there were no other books of its kind available. Since then, many authors and editors have produced works that attempt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384694Author Roy PeacheyFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Angelico Press/Second SpringPublisher Angelico Press/Second SpringWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931839570Author Theodore RooseveltFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Ross & PerryPublisher Ross & PerryWeight(grams) 422g

The History of the Book in Canada is one of this country's great scholarly achievements, with three volumes spanning topics from Aboriginal communication systems established prior to European contact to the arrival of multinational publishing companies...

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 9798624187832Author Jonathan W SweetFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 209g

When Canadian authors win prestigious literary prizes, from the Governor General's Literary Award to the Man Booker Prize, they are celebrated not only for their achievements, but also for contributing to this country's cultural capital. Discussions...

Talking bugs, electricity, the founding of empires, hobos, Nazis, whores, violence, drugs, murder, secret cabals, Heaven, Hell - William T. Vollmann is a writer of enormous novels that are stuffed with entire worlds of creation and destruction. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497985513Author Grant OvertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643962702Author Jay A GertzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Down & Out BooksPublisher Down & Out BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Breaking new ground in the study of British literary culture during an important, transitional period, this new work by Mary Ann Gillies focuses on the professional literary agent whose emergence in Britain around 1880 coincided with, and accelerated,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781702090872Author Fellow Paul DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781796909654Author Shayley Stationery BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781974671489Author Red City ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798699320196Author Ken FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Part memoir, part courtroom drama, part primer for fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter, the revised edition, is the story of one woman's efforts to restore literary classics to the classrooms of rural north Florida. In 2021, 1,500 books...

Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern, or Why Style Matters argues against the traditional view that Marcel Proust wrote pastiches, that is, texts that imitate the style of another author, to master his literary predecessors while sharpening his writerly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727597912Author Mubarak Ali Ahmed Al Al-YadoumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498033800Author Brander MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798737124328Author Ken PelhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798657340419Author Hatice BayramogluFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517591748Author Allyson R AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Past into Print explores history books and periodicals as sites of conflict and compromise in order to question how and why historical knowledge is created. Using primary documents and the history books of the period, Leslie Howsam combines two distinct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492723547Author Matthew CrainFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form - the little magazine - and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Though the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399528368Author Brian RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582432458Author Geoffrey O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g