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One of the most gifted American journalists of the twentieth century, A. J. Liebling learned his craft as a newspaper reporter before joining The New Yorker in 1935. This volume collects five books that demonstrate his extraordinary vitality and...

"Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters" gathers both classic and never-before-published essays from one of the leading stylists in contemporary American letters, and one of our more revered public intellectuals, Paul Robinson. Diverse and elegant, the...

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933435305Author Eric HofferFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Hopewell Publications LLCPublisher Hopewell Publications LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Anthologies) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781940596471Author Valerie BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lookout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082419Author Ezra PoundFormat HardbackPage Count 1363Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 865gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374516000Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an unforgettable story of courage and finding forgiveness in an unforgiving wilderness. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe...

Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader is a landmark collection representing the visionary life's work of beloved Bay Area luminary Steve Abbott. It brings together a broad cross-section of literary and artistic work spanning three decades of poetry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096459Author Ernest J. GainesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 188gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838108977Author J. T. CroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Elmfire PressPublisher Elmfire PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912868513Format PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915245045Author Leonora MerielFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Granite CloudPublisher Granite Cloud

Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay-" jeux d'esprits," as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth's literary influences while retaining his trademark...

In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian...

This book takes an idea first explored by medieval logicians 800 years ago and revisits it armed with the tools of contemporary linguistics, logic, and computer science. The idea - the Holy Grail of the medieval logicians - was the thought that all of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618154456Author Galway KinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 159mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387883178Author Duane VorheesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Hawakal PublishersPublisher Hawakal PublishersWeight(grams) 97gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554814282Author Jessica EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913715694Author Mark BriegalFormat PaperbackImprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief Publishing

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838353605Author A H HuseinFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint A. H. HuseinPublisher A. H. HuseinWeight(grams) 447gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006115Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 146mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513290478Author Frances Ellen Watkins HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.comThis colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick...

Praise for Michael McClure: "Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence."--Robert Creeley "McClure's poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy."--Allen Ginsberg "Without...

"Heartbreakingly beautiful writing; sometimes funny, sometimes shattering--always revolutionary. Truly amazing collection!"--Margaret Cho "Sister Spit is like the underground railroad for burgeoning queer writers. Not only in the van, but in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937627225Author Jarrett-NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chelsea Station EditionsPublisher Chelsea Station Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635187Author Iain McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178170Author Robert ArpFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1996gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999612801Format PaperbackImprint Auvian PressPublisher Auvian Press

In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, "Aiiieeeee!" was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions-it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hating,...

This Norton Critical Edition seeks to give readers a full understanding of Thomas Jefferson's importance to the intellectual development of the United States, particularly in political theory and scientific learning; of Jefferson's role in the expansion...

A compelling set of short stories from the author of World War I classic, All Quiet on the Western Front German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the...

"A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and Indian feuds."-Los Angeles Times"In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora Desert, Bowden peoples the harsh land on both sides of...

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been...

This book is an anthology of some of the greatest stories and storytellers of the American West. Through eight chapters and over 800 pages, 150 writers present scores of myths, stories, poems, essays, and journals that document Montana's significant...

In No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us, John J. Stuhr utilizes the thought of American philosopher and psychologist William James to develop an original world view that addresses both enduring philosophical problems and contemporary cultural issues. ...

Based on a series of talks pairing writers of note, Upstairs at the Strand offers candid accounts of the ways leading writers work, think and live. The book features such celebrated novelists, playwrights and poets as Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Charles...