Books & Reading

It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary,...

What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature? Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about...

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

Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further...

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years,...

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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 *...

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...

Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly...

Pulp 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...

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 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258088Author Marco CaraccioloFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Explores 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 &...

A lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop...

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 9781644452929Author Stacey D'ErasmoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm...

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...

Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo...

'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...

The 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...

Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement...

This book explores Victorian readers' consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap...

An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey "Trethewey doesn't just explore the reasons why she writes. She also offers a...

How studying material texts can help us better understand the diversity of the Americas, past and present A Hawai’ian quilt stitched with anti-imperial messages; a Jesuit report that captures the last words of a Wendat leader; an invitation to a ball,...

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

Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal...

Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345465467Author Shaunda Kennedy WengerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377780Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Originally 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...

In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the...

Homi 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,...

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles-"an instant classic on Dutch book history" (BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review)"[An] excellent contribution to book history."-Robert...

The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the...

A 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...

In 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...

The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recognise. For bibliophiles, they'll enjoy recognising their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814207949Author R.D. AltickFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners Avoiding theoretical debates and cliched metaphors, award-winning translator Damion Searls has written a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what...