Books & Reading

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

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...

Renowned 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...

Shortlisted 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...

Apologies 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

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,...

Apologies 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

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...

Reading as Method provides a concise and systematic account of how readers engage with texts, exploring the most paradigmatic techniques taught in the past and today and guiding readers on developing their own critical approach to literature. Oliver...

A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature's greatest writers created their most memorable worksVirginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One's Own that "it is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897100446Author Lucy ManganFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 498g

The first full-fledged application of the sacrificial model to fiction from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Cesareo Bandera contends that we badly misjudge our own historical situation if we believe that the sacred is something that can be left behind...

What does censorship do to a culture? How do censors justify their work? What are the mechanisms by which censorship - and self-censorship - alter people's sense of time and memory, truth and reality? Thomas Bass faced these questions when The Spy Who...

Traces earlier revolutions in the history of reading to orient our shift to the digital ageConsidered one of the greatest inventions of human civilization, writing has served as a pathway to culture and education through history. The digital revolution...

This accessible and engaging book reveals the essential elements of critical and creative thinking that drive achievement in academic, professional, and personal spheres. Moving seamlessly from the foundations of critical understanding to the art of...

Instead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Being a Good Animal argues that we should abandon the persistent humanist idea that fiction can produce better people. Instead, we should...

A TIMES and SPECTATOR Book of the Year 'The best book about reading I have read for a very long time' STEPHEN FRY'A glittering gem of a book' NATALIE HAYNESA joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our livesAs an English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589882072Author Gabriel ZaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry BooksWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm *...

Franklin Publications, or Franklin Book Programs, was started in 1953 as a form of cultural diplomacy. Until it folded in the 1970s, Franklin translated, printed, and distributed American books around the world, with offices in Egypt, Indonesia, Iran,...

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,...

Criticism of the novel routinely starts with the assumption that characters must think, develop and strive for self-fulfilment as individuals. This book challenges the paradigm that individualism is innate to the novel as a medium. It describes how major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062326522Author Thomas C FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593768089Author Lyta GoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read. In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszynska thinks back on various book clubs she has been a part of. Through brief discussions of a variety...

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...

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date and consolidated history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy of close reading. It offers an essential guide to the features and genealogies of close reading, and how it...

Move over Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Lovecraft - it's time to let the Scream Queens howl. In Sadie Hartmann's follow-up book to the Bram Stoker Award-winner 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered, horror fans will be delighted to discover a...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect investigates the material conditions of producing, distributing and consuming the postcolonial in the Internet era. Bridging the...

What is the role of the library in an increasingly complex information environment filled with and redesigned for artificial intelligence?Hope in the Library presents a compelling case for the continued relevance of libraries in an age increasingly...