American

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...

When a troubled girl steals a horse, her foster moms are thrown together with their reluctant neighbor in this award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735845999Author Peter PrengamanFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Association PressPublisher Association Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393982630Author Daniel WrinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Storyteller Books, LLCPublisher Storyteller Books, LLCWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm)...

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

Noni the Pony stands under one tree, and watches her two friends dance by the sea. She gives three speckled hens a ride up the hill... Come on another adventure with Noni in this delightful rhyming story. Alison Lester's books are favourites with...

Following the assassination of a British Colonel in a guerrilla ambush by communist terrorists during the Malayan Emergency in 1954, Jason Rance, an English company commander in a Gurkha battalion and jungle expert, is tasked with tracking down the...

Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies,...

The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735055657Author Penny PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Garden Oak PressPublisher Garden Oak PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528712309Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

This important book argues that Henry James reveals in his fiction a sophisticated theory of moral understanding and moral motivation. The claim is that in his novels and short stories James is engaged in a distinctive kind of original thinking and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536553Author Andrew RubenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912687794Author Robert Milligan QCFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916481145Author John StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint IheringiusPublisher Iheringius

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces in one volume the canon of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328465818Author Sheila HetiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560255116Author MariJo MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

These essays, produced and published over thirty years, are prescient in the prophetic tradition yet current. They reflect consistent engagement in Native issues and deliver a profoundly indigenous analysis of modern existence. Sovereignty, cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082617Author Isaac Bashevis SingerFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

The literary legacy of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) consists of numerous works in which the traditional restraints of language are abandoned for spontaneous and surprising expression. Her writings challenge the reader, yet also offer an inviting...

In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618902811Author Dave EggersFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Academic)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes, featured by a yet-to-be-named...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956952592Author John TytellFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Beatdom BooksPublisher Beatdom Books

Between these covers you will find haunting unconventional narratives that push the boundaries of genre & form in poetry, fiction & essays. This is our first transmission. Welcome to Black Telephone Magazine.About the AuthorLindsay Lerman is a writer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970652669Author Ph. D. The Rev. Joseph P. ChristopherFormat PaperbackPage Count 716Imprint St Athanasius PressPublisher St Athanasius PressWeight(grams)...

An illustrated wit-and-wisdom-style packaging of quotes and excerpts from the fiction and nonfiction of Edgar Allan Poe, organized by theme and presented in a lighter-than-Poe context. This book will collect several hundred quotes and aphorisms from...

"Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages," writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. "The most important part of this magic...

For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735055664Author Linda Haim MeadowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Garden Oak PressPublisher Garden Oak PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. When it appeared in New York in 1825, it was the longest African American autobiography published up to that time. Because Grimes wrote and published his...

"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century-the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented-is the period when American short stories were invented, and when they were the...