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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $18.88$13.55Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this... -
Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1918 by Volker Weidermann
RRP: $27.28$17.98At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. ... -
Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time by Paul Maher, Jr. 9781589796874
RRP: $63.00$44.84Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: I: The Young Genius 1885-1920 by A. David Moody
RRP: $33.58$25.22This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and... -
El Camino by Miguel Delibes by Jeremy S. Squires 9780719080562
RRP: $63.00$55.50Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing... -
Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction by Benjamin Bateman
RRP: $136.50$122.98Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first-century queer... -
Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life by Oren Izenberg 9780691148663
RRP: $73.50$57.14"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to understand the divisions that organize... -
C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935–1947 by Mark A. Noll 9781514007006
RRP: $35.68$25.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514007006Author Mark A. NollFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm -
Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh 9781421419077
RRP: $81.90$74.78Roland McHugh's classic Annotations to Finnegans Wake provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds... -
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version by William Butler Yeats
RRP: $56.68$35.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476740881Author William Butler YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness by Patrick Wright 9781913462581
RRP: $42.00$28.62Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent... -
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson 9780674971806
RRP: $67.10$51.81A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed... -
Always Astonished: Selected Prose by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: $23.08$15.50"After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his... -
Enid Blyton: A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder
RRP: $37.78$33.81This book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton's business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of... -
Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914 by Angelique Richardson
RRP: $31.48$23.00"A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes... -
Shop Talk by Philip Roth
RRP: $27.28$19.09Philip Roth is the voice of our times.In a sequence of intimate conversations with some of the most influential and insightful writers of the twentieth century, Roth explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work and that of their... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: $27.28$19.09'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places... -
George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality by Peter Brian Barry 9780197627402
RRP: $41.98$35.97George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell's... -
The Bughouse: The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound by Daniel Swift
RRP: $23.08$16.32'An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane... -
One of the Damned: The Life and Times of Robert Tressell by F.C. Ball 9781905007127
$35.97Robert Tressell described his famous book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists as 'the story of twelve months in Hell, told by one of the damned'. This biography of Tressell, first published in 1973, tells the story of a man about whom virtually nothing... -
Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery 9780192856234
RRP: $46.18$39.38An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy. One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the... -
Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Professor Edward Mendelson 9780691172491
RRP: $63.00$50.02Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907-73), one of the greatest literary figures of the... -
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde by Alyce Mahon 9780691141619
RRP: $88.20$78.75How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine philosophy of sexual excess and human suffering that... -
J.d. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195896Author David StreitfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard 9780060919887
RRP: $33.58$19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060919887Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present by Declan Kiberd
RRP: $21.00$14.95Ireland is suffering a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people's faith in their institutions. The nation's struggle for independence is thrown into doubt. But, as Declan... -
Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill by Jeffrey Wainwright 9780719067556
RRP: $41.98$36.98Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry 'recognises that words fail us'. These essays explore Hill's struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. This book seeks to show how all his work is marked by the quest for the right pitch... -
Sweetly Sings Delaney: A Study of Shelagh Delaney's Work 1958-68 by John Harding 9781906075835
RRP: $31.48$28.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906075835Author John HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd -
Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein 9781501762321
RRP: $58.78$49.69Winner of the Matei Calinescu Prize In Unfinished Spirit, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein brings to light the extraordinary archive of Muriel Rukeyser's (1913-1980) unpublished and incomplete literary works, revealing the ways in which misogyny influences the... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
$46.07This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we... -
Arabian Nights of 1934 by Geoffrey O'brien
RRP: $48.30$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949597271Author Geoffrey O'brienFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova Press -
'Love Me or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes by Graham Saunders 9780719059568
RRP: $41.98$31.98Blasted brought Sarah Kane to the theatre pages of the broadsheets, the front pages of the tabloids, and to the notice of the nation. Covers all Kane's major plays and productions, contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years by A. David Moody
RRP: $44.08$38.51The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound weaves together the illuminating story of his life, his achievements as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice. The... -
In Search of Russian Modernism by Leonid Livak 9781421426419
RRP: $99.75$87.38A critical reexamination of Russian modernist cultural historiography.Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures by the Modern Language AssociationThe writing and teaching of Russian literary and... -
The Poetry of Sorley MacLean by Emma Dymock
RRP: $14.60$11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841058Author Emma DymockFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781526171931
RRP: $42.00$30.51These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: $35.68$28.01In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a... -
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara 9780802134523
RRP: $25.18$20.41Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary... -
Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Felix Guattari 9780816615155
RRP: $41.98$36.06In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafka's work. Instead of exploring preexisting categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of "minor literature"-the use of a major language... -
Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness by Stevan M. Weine 9781531502669
RRP: $62.98$48.55A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century. Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem "Howl" opens with one of the most resonant...