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'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a...

From the celebrated translator of Cervantes and Garcia Marquez, a testament to the power of the translator's art "Groundbreaking."-New York Times Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and...

You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it. What do you do next? Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon...

With a foreword by Lee Child.Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an...

There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in the English language. In Different Speeds, Same Furies, Perry Anderson...

For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that...

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the YearThe author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists...

In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common...

Soon after its publication on 30 September 1868, Little Women became an enormous international bestseller. When Anne Boyd Rioux read it in her twenties, it had a powerful effect on her and through teaching it, she has seen its effect on many others. In...

In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work, The Yellow Wall-Paper, generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593234617Author New York TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535402Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373911Author Edwin FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2020 (United States) and Whiting Literary Magazine Prize 2018 and Whiting Award 2006...

______________ 'I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White ... Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page' - Observer 'One of the great prose stylists of our time ... There are few paragraphs that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451696325Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Should you finish every book you start?How has your family influenced the way you read?What is literary style?How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup?Why do you hate the book your friend likes?Is writing really just like any other job?What happens to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394700137Author Stuart GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 171mm *...

Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or ourselves - by...

In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work "A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait."-Kirkus Reviews "[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a...

From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch-the...

An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated author In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of...

Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolano's work into English, explores the singular...

A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines-illustrated with 110 full-color photographs.Easy to create and share online, spine poems-also known as collage poems...

`The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manque: I make no other pretensions ...' (Anthony Burgess). Despite his modest claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903517666Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898432Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062720733Author Clifton FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807771Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733522120Author Joseph PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

Robin Hood, whether riding through the glen, robbing the rich to pay the poor or giving the Sheriff of Nottingham his come-uppance, is one of the most captivating and controversial legendary figures. Was there a historical figure behind the legends? Did...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375434Author Rachel EisendrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510741577Author Graham TarrantFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been...

A must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the Monroeville, Alabama courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird,...

'A brilliant, unlikely book' SpectatorHow can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe's 196 independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530549Author Anne FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...