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Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity Frederic Barbier 9780745672588
RRP: $39.88$35.43Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication what we call the media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of... -
Jerusalem: City of the Book by Merav Mack
RRP: $47.25$40.64A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as... -
Beyond Twisted Sorrow: The Promise of Country Noir by Jay A Gertzman 9781643962702
RRP: $40.95$27.95Apologies 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 *... -
The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison by Mikita Brottman 9780062384348
RRP: $39.88$27.45Apologies 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... -
Don Delillo's "White Noise": A Reader's Guide by Leonard Orr 9780826414748
$35.97A critical examination of "White Noise" by Don Delillo, this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years. A... -
Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950 by Joseph McAleer 9780198203292
$104.81Before the advent of television, reading was among the most popular of leisure activities. `Light' fiction - romances, thrillers, westerns - was the sustenance of millions in wartime and in peace. This lively and scholarly study examines the size and... -
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway 9780807843499
RRP: $79.70$73.82Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance... -
Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know by Joseph Pearce 9781733522120
RRP: $29.38$26.94Apologies 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 -
A Life In Words by Paul Auster
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies 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. -
Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others by Anthony Grafton 9781800081666
RRP: $73.50$65.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081666Author Anthony GraftonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 30mm -
The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns 9780226401225
$78.48In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas-commercial, intellectual, political, and individual."A compelling exposition of how... -
Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide by Owen Holland 9781848319042
RRP: $18.88$12.77From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline.Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and... -
Homi K. Bhabha by David Huddart
RRP: $41.98$37.15Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear and accessible language the key concepts of his work,... -
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling by Antonino Ferro
RRP: $83.98$73.63Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth?Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between... -
Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction by Scott McCracken
RRP: $31.48$23.35Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the best seller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction with... -
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H. J. Jackson 9780300097207
$59.87From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book-the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia-H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary... -
The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts 9780865479579
RRP: $31.48$24.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Great Books by David Denby 9780684835334
$41.58Explores the current debate about what constitutes a classic and the revolutionary power great works of literature contain.Book InformationISBN 9780684835334Author DenbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon &... -
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook 9781771965415
RRP: $29.38$19.45ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 * ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your... -
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More by Graham Tarrant
RRP: $41.98$24.53Apologies 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... -
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century: The Literary Agenda by Maryanne Wolf 9780198724179
RRP: $49.33$41.94The 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... -
Dante in Love by Harriet Rubin 9780743262989
RRP: $39.88$28.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743262989Author Harriet RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Novel, Who Needs It? by Joseph Epstein 9781641773058
RRP: $39.88$27.15In this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specifically of the novel, among all intellectual endeavors that seek to describe the behavior of human beings. Reading superior fiction, he holds, arouses the... -
How to Read Novels Like A Prof by Thomas C Foster
RRP: $33.58$20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061340406Author Thomas C FosterPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: $16.78$14.36The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard "Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to... -
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick
RRP: $27.28$17.41Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism,... -
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love by Anne Fadiman
RRP: $27.28$20.37Apologies 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)... -
Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World by Naomi S. Baron 9780190624163
RRP: $41.98$35.74People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets that caused digital reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon... -
50 Books for Life: A Concise Guide to Catholic Literature by Roy Peachey 9781621384687
RRP: $32.55$29.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384687Author Roy PeacheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Angelico Press/Second SpringPublisher Angelico Press/Second SpringWeight(grams)... -
Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities by Russell Ash 9780061346651
RRP: $35.68$25.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061346651Author Russell AshFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200g -
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition by Catherine J. Golden
RRP: $62.98$55.94In 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... -
The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600 by Jonathan J. G. Alexander
RRP: $115.50$100.99A comprehensive survey examining the vibrant and sumptuous art of illumination during a period of profound intellectual and cultural transformation Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance,... -
Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers by James W. Hall
RRP: $42.00$28.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970951Author James W. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork by Whitney Trettien
RRP: $46.18$40.30How do early modern media underlie today's digital creativity? In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collaboratories where paper media were cut up and reassembled into radical,... -
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World by Robert Hass 9780061923913
RRP: $23.08$20.37Renowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant essayist. The New York Times hailed him as a writer who is so intelligent that to read his poetry or prose, or to hear him speak, gives one an almost visceral pleasure. Now, with What... -
The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Amelia Dale
RRP: $58.78$50.69Shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies) 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... -
Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "the Lord of the Rings" by Fleming Rutledge 9780802824974
RRP: $39.88$39.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802824974Author Fleming RutledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 373Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier
RRP: $41.98$36.83In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage... -
Monsieur Proust's Library: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Marcel Proust by Anka Muhlstein
RRP: $35.68$20.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421880Author Anka MuhlsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Print Cultures: A Reader in Theory and Practice by Caroline Davis 9780230280915
$69.85This reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts on twentieth and twenty-first century print culture yet compiled. Illuminating the networks and processes that have shaped reading, writing and publishing, the selected extracts also examine...