Books & Reading

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between...

Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern...

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, ""outline"" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996734882Author B Alan BourgeoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Dear Indie, Inc.Publisher Dear Indie, Inc.Weight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983827054Author L James HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Noontide PressPublisher Noontide PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979589881Author Eric OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Brightcity BooksPublisher Brightcity BooksWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312359898Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983827047Author L James HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Noontide PressPublisher Noontide PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795352546Author Robertson DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688174354Author Victoria Golden McMainsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615935782Author Alan WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Odd VolumesPublisher Odd VolumesWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 14mm

Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980117455Author Arlene J Scott M aFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Logos Institute PressPublisher Logos Institute PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979589874Author Cheryl OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Brightcity BooksPublisher Brightcity BooksWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780844722474Author N. ThimmeschFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint AEI PressPublisher AEI PressWeight(grams) 113g

In The Whole Five Feet, Christopher Beha turns to the great books for answers after undergoing a series of personal and family crises and learning that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics to educate herself during the Great Depression. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692576144Author Ray FoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Arbordin Park PressPublisher Arbordin Park PressWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595235186Author Bifford DebsFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 544g

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 9780307409577Author Jack MurnighanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm)...

In the 1920s, with the end of the Revolution, the new Soviet government began investing resources and energy in creating a new type of the book for the first Soviet generation of young readers. In a sense, these early Soviet books for children were the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780691212500Author Phillipa K. ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. "Book Lust To Go" connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags...

A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway Morris claimed that "almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing-from pocket books, instant books and pirated books, to the concept of author's copyright, company mergers,...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857284549Author Katherine BodeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936365043Author Editors of The BelieverFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839985430Author Robert PierceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

This book develops a method called intimate reading to investigate how ordinary readers are deeply moved by what they read, and the transformative impact such experiences have on their sense of self. The book presents unique narratives of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839982767Author Anthony EnnsFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Adopting a case study approach, it demonstrates the extent to which contexts of production and reception are important in framing generic expectations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785272844Author Glenda NorquayFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785272509Author Shayne HusbandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785274817Author Stevie MarsdenFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783086900Author Shayne HusbandsFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785276071Author Robert PierceyFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

'Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field' is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and...

The Unexpected Dante brings together leading scholars whose discoveries and observations add new understanding to The Divine Comedy as a multilayered masterpiece whose publishing history coincides with both the dawn of printing and the digital age. Each...

The Printed Reader explores the transformative power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in the fascination with Don Quixote and in a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers, readers who attempt to reproduce and...