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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;...

Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An...

A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration,...

Unpacking the Personal Library is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Collectively, the chapters articulate a poetics of the personal library...

‘A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart’s lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms and number-lovers alike will discover much they didn’t know about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781079392036Author The Yellow BrushFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781077047884Author Bookish BobFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781077046276Author Bookish BobFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Advances in science and technology no longer change how we live, they determine it. In the not-too-distant future, techno-scientific developments may make individuals stronger, smarter, healthier and more productive-but to what end? Addressing this...

The eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manuscript culture obsolete. After Print, however, reveals that the story isn't so simple. Manuscript remained a...

What does Ian McEwan have in common with Barbara Kingsolver? Or The Shack's William Paul Young with The Way the Crow Flies' Ann-Marie MacDonald? All four spent significant portions of their formative years overseas as expatriates; all four are third...

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The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its animals (human and otherwise), and its ecological interconnections. Exploring a range of contemporary American novelists whose narratives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492983Author Jon FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books

Reading These United States explores the relationship between early American literature and federalism in the early decades of the republic. As a federal republic, the United States constituted an unusual model of national unity, defined by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684802398Author John WynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 654g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595243150Author Allen L ScarbroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781090907578Author J Lenni DornerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781075506970Author Elinor MacedonFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 86g

This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.Book InformationISBN...

In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around...

British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India.About the AuthorMaire ni Fhlathuin is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University...

From Gossip Girl to The Kite Runner a completely updated look at the history of censorship in world literature. Throughout history, nations, peoples, and governments have censored writers and their works on political, religious, sexual, and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988396968Author Hal SacksFormat HardbackImprint Parke PressPublisher Parke PressWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984767915Author Mark EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Cultural ConservationPublisher Cultural ConservationWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm)...

Between 1920 and 1958 Katherine Anne Porter published more than sixty-five book review, many of which are now largely inaccessible. Although several such pieces have appeared in earlier collections of Porter's nonfiction writings, never have so many of...

A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration,...

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692197677Author John GartlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Frog in the Mirror PressPublisher Frog in the Mirror PressWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615559124Author Michael NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint New Street Communications, LLCPublisher New Street Communications, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595306510Author Cherie HarwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 100g

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 9780062384348Author Mikita BrottmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991365203Author Marek BreigerFormat PaperbackImprint Valley Memories PressPublisher Valley Memories PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692388037Author Professor LLC Doctoral Program Craig SaperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Roving Eye PressPublisher Roving Eye PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595319244Author Burton R PollinFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595318810Author Emanuel T ProstanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595273881Author Wells Earl DraughonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421847Author Francis SpuffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 135mm *...