Literary Collections

When Celeste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more forgiving times, this extraordinary document offers not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374260873Author Jules RenardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439102336Author Jonathan AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739421212Author Ann PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB EditionsDimensions(mm) 178mm * 112mm * 5mm

A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and more from Sojourner Truth and Abraham Lincoln to Henry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761040405Author Sophie CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House AustraliaPublisher Random House Australia

Luis Bunuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and most widely relevant of these letters. Bunuel (1900-1983) came to international attention with his first...

Ten years ago, James Fenton went to Saigon, having made up his mind that, no matter what happened, he was not going to miss what he had travelled 10,000 miles to see: a Communist victory. And so he remained, long after the US troops and most members of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912020133Author Erik JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ELSPPublisher ELSP

In his latest book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. A new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the...

Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions This second volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886 contains 156 letters, of which 111 are published for the first time,...

Prepared by Henry Miller for publication in 1938, Letters to Emil--correspondence from 1921 through 1934 with his boyhood friend and successful artist Emil Schnellock--remained unpublished until 1989. A chance encounter by the two men, out of touch since...

Although Eliza Haywood was one of the best known and most prolific writers in her own time, there is no modern edition of her works. This edition provides representative texts from Haywood's entire career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544812109Author Jonathan FranzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295g

"Am I going too far if I declare that not a single one of the opponents took a tenth of the pains I took with anthroposophy before I joined the movement?" -- Friedrich RittelmeyerBorn in southern Germany in 1872, Friedrich Rittelmeyer was a leading...

'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, 'A'ishah received a thorough religious education and memorized the Quran at age eight. A mystic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889503Author Natalia I PetrovskaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017 NAACP Image Award Winner,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156186230Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679774129Author Henry GlassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin's blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a "smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear" (Richard Wilbur) version that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600046Author Henry David ThoreauFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 740g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437155Author Suor Maria CelesteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm)...

Originally published in 1988, this volume includes the full text and translation of The Judgment of the King of Navarre by Guillaume de Machaut, alongside textual and biographical notes includiging the life of the author, comparative studies of Chaucer...

The Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus (AD 412-85) is the most important extant document on the interpretation of this enigmatic dialogue in antiquity, and has had a crucial influence on all subsequent readings. In Proclus' Commentary, the...

A memoir of postmodern times, cast as a history. This book is narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen, who leaves this account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the 23rd century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of...

In the late summer of 1839 Thoreau and his elder brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Henry began to prepare a memorial account of their...

In order to demonstrate that one story from the Dubliners is not only a turning point in that book but also a microcosm of a wide range of important Joycean influences and preoccupations, Coilin Owens examines the dense intertextuality of "A Painful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386236Author Orhan PamukFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry, and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in modern history. But even as these events shaped his work, the presence of his mothera--a woman whose life...

This is one of the first complete collections of medieval Latin fables to appear in modern English. Odo of Cheriton (c. 1185- c. 1247) wrote sophisticated fables, filled with great wit and humor, yet highly moral, even didactic, in keeping with the age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767013Author James HannahamFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999323151Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint The BelieverPublisher The Believer

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967750644Author Florence JonesFormat PaperbackImprint Bright Eyes BooksPublisher Bright Eyes BooksWeight(grams) 127g

In two massive volumes, Steve McCaffery, Canada's most challenging, experimental and innovative poet/critic amasses the best of his previously published and ungathered work. From the early concrete and visual poems of Broken Mandala and Transitions to...

The love affair between two of the Victorian era's most famous poets is one of passion, tragedy, illness, and ultimately, endurance. Collected here are their love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming love, and their forbidden marriage...

Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays contains what Lawrence himself called the 'philosophicalish' essays written in the decade 1915-1925. The essays range from short pieces like 'Love' and 'Life' to the lengthy 'Education of the...

Martha Gellhorn was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. Opinionated, honest and unafraid, she covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Reagan's wars in Central America in the 1980s. Martha Gellhorn: the war writer in the field and...

Lee Gutkind, proclaimed the "Godfather behind creative nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, along with the staff of his landmark journal Creative Nonfiction, has culled alternative publications, 'zines, blogs, podcasts, literary journals, and other often...

Honorable Mention, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction, 2006 Grover Lewis was one of the defining voices of the New Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s. His wry, acutely observed, fluently written essays for Rolling Stone and the Village...