Books & Reading

Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060932220Author Robert FulghumFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181g

The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth...

Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London's National Portrait Gallery. Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meta archival meditation, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. Our subject is Sir...

Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education. The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is an important and dynamic enterprise. English: Shared...

In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses,...

In his latest book, Marshall Gregory begins with the premise that our lives are saturated with stories, ranging from magazines, books, films, television, and blogs to the words spoken by politicians, pastors, and teachers. He then explores the ethical...

Our Ladies of Darkness opens with a question raised by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his 1835 sketch "The Haunted Mind": "What if the fiend should come in women's garments, with a pale beauty amid sin and desolation, and lie down by your side?" Joseph Andriano...

Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account are nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of...

Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that...

Wendy Lesser's new book is 'an inspired intellectual romp: part memoir, part criticism, though actually a bracing, larkish reinvention of them both' (Lawrence Weschler). Revisiting her favorite books after the passage of twenty or thirty years, Lesser is...

The literacy and education of medieval nuns has been a subject of dispute and study in recent years. In his third Index of medieval libraries, David Bell presents a comprehensive list of all manuscripts and printed books which have been traced with...

An inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to sayTaking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics' Circle...

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...

Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of...

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...

In this pioneering scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Franz Kafka_three masters of symbolic expression_utilized Tarot cards in their poetry and prose. Focusing on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990733577Author Anita DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Nine-Banded BooksPublisher Nine-Banded BooksWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679773498Author Paris ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 316gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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...

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

In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720861Author Michael OndaatjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 247gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684859071Author BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 268g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277121Author Marjorie GarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992725747Author Cynthia JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Institute of English StudiesPublisher Institute of English Studies

This anthology argues for the serious study of the literary oeuvre of Anne Rice, a major figure in today's popular literature. The essays assert that Rice expands the conventions of the horror genre's formula to examine important social issues. Like a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609801130Author Mary LeonhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965960984Author Gary D RobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Proseyr PublishingPublisher Proseyr PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

This volume gathers the contributions of senior and junior scholars-all indebted to the pathbreaking work of Derek Pearsall-to showcase new research prompted by his rich and ongoing legacy as a literary critic, editor, and seminal founder of Middle...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615434506Author Casey Steven LeasureFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Casey S. LeasurePublisher Casey S. LeasureWeight(grams) 140g

The early United States was a culture of the episode. In Episodic Poetics, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot. Since Aristotle's Poetics,...

The recovery of Dante's metaphysics - which are very different from our own - is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called "the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy." That problem is what to...

Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today,...