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The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S. Levine 9780393892277
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $99.94The 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... -
The Portable Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln 9780143105640
Booksplease Price: $28.25Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the... -
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes 9780143137733
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $27.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137733Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Souls of Black Folk: The Unabridged Classic by W. E. B. Dubois
Booksplease Price: $6.28One of the Most Important Books on Civil Rights, Race, and Freedom Ever Written. "A groundbreaking challenge to white supremacy." -The New York Times A classic work of American literature, African-American history, and sociology by W. E. B. Du Bois, The... -
The Essential Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.34The Essential Hemingway is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. This impressive collection includes: the full text of Fiesta, Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from three of... -
The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages by Daniel Siddiqi
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $77.99The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors... -
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Glory Edim 9781409189282
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.52'Required reading.' - CosmopolitanRemember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves ... -
The New York Stories Of Henry James by Henry James
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $33.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171622Author Henry JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 605gDimensions(mm)... -
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.25A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithRecognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and... -
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson 9780812975321
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975321Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) by James Baldwin
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $48.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011529Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 869Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
J.d. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.53Apologies 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 -
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You're Gonna Be Okay by Sean Dietrich
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $37.76From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright.Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from... -
Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780375711763Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $33.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143039532Author Dorothy ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.34An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of... -
Calamities by Renee Gladman 9781940696270
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.61"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." --Eileen Myles A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and... -
Kurt Vonnegut Complete Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $45.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808082Author Kurt VonnegutFormat HardbackPage Count 944Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $13.48'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now'A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the... -
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston 9780008523008
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.44'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of... -
The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story John Freeman 9781984877826
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984877826Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Selected Poems by Dara Wier 9781933517568
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.27"[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle...Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its... -
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant 9780674237858
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $33.50"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."-Ron Chernow, author of Grant"Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else... Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a... -
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson 9781035006335
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.20'Key to understanding Black British history' - The Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithOne of the great poets of modern times, and a deeply respected political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a... -
The Portable Thoreau by Henry Thoreau
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.05Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he... -
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.59First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards... -
Messing About in Quotes: A Little Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.17Become a dazzling wit or enjoy a good laugh with this entertaining collection of humorous quotations, carefully handpicked and edited by writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth. From Art to Bores, Tennis to Wine, this little dictionary contains over 2,700... -
The Wake Up by Catherine Ryan Hyde 9781542047951
Booksplease Price: $18.88From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an emotional novel of how one man's life changes forever when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others. Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden... -
Ideas and Opinions Albert Einstein 9780679601050
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $31.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601050Author Albert EinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.50In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
RRP: $47.23Booksplease Price: $39.88This 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... -
Run With the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, A by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.31The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture... -
Sumac by Anas Atassi 9781911668107
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13"This book is about humanity. Life. Beauty. Family. The heart of the home. The kitchen and The mother; whom ever she may be. Passing on a legacy of a place that was the hub of the gastronomic world. May she return once again from dark times. But until... -
Thick And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.61In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - is unapologetically 'thick': deemed 'thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have... -
The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt by Charles W. Chesnutt 9780143105343
RRP: $38.89Booksplease Price: $29.25A collection from one of our most influential African American writers An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the South, is widely credited with almost single-handedly... -
Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $31.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553385052Author Nora EphronFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 205mm *... -
Pity The Reader Suzanne McConnell 9781644210215
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210215Author Suzanne McConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2001 by Gore Vidal 9780349115283
Booksplease Price: $37.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Thomas Merton Reader by Thomas Merton 9780385032926
Booksplease Price: $41.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385032926Author Thomas MertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years by A. David Moody 9780199215584
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $45.89This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait, covering Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single highly readable and challenging narrative, in a way that has not been done before, the illuminating story of his life, his...