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Notes From a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel by Evan S 1924- Connell 9781014232380
RRP: $29.61$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014232380Author Evan S 1924- ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Postscripts by John Barth
RRP: $18.06$11.96Proving 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... -
A. J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings (LOA #191): The Sweet Science / The Earl of Louisiana / The Jollity Building / Between Meals / The Press by A.J. Liebling 9781598530407
RRP: $51.60$32.10One 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... -
The Feeling House by Saleh Addonia 9781910688786
RRP: $12.89$9.17'There is nothing to forget' A young girl wakes up alone next to a burning truck and befriends a nearby cloud; an Eritrean design student works to recreate his lost childhood home whilst studying in London; a group of illegal immigrants endure... -
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent by Richard Bruce Nugent
RRP: $32.24$27.12Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Protege of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale... -
The Best American Short Stories 2018 by Roxane Gay
RRP: $20.63$16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544582941Author Roxane GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 23mm -
Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker by Kathy Acker
RRP: $16.76$15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802139214Author Kathy AckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Sean Teuton
RRP: $11.60$8.32In North America, the Indigenous literature we know today reaches back thousands of years to when the continent's original inhabitants first circled fires and shared tales of emergence and creation, journey and quest, heroism and trickery. Sean Teuton... -
Hart Crane's 'The Bridge': An Annotated Edition by Lawrence Kramer
$47.82Hart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics- a charge that became conventional wisdom-this panoramic work is now widely regarded as one of... -
Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays by Susan Sontag 9781598532555
RRP: $51.60$32.00With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses . . . ... -
Nelson Science: Teacher's Book 1 by Anthony Russell 9781382017503
RRP: $45.14$42.67This new edition of Nelson Science provides a practical and activity-based approach to teaching and learning Primary science. Written with an international focus, it is designed for primary pupils from a range of backgrounds to create and sustain a... -
The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis by Guliz Gunes 9780198849490
RRP: $104.49$94.89This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences. The chapters adopt the popular 'silent structure' accounts of ellipsis, and investigate the question of when linguistic material... -
Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below by Justin Henry 9780197636305
RRP: $105.78$96.04Ravana, the demon-king antagonist from the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic poem, has become an unlikely cultural hero among Sinhala Buddhists over the past decade. In Ravana's Kingdom, Justin W. Henry delves into the historical literary reception of the... -
Cases Without Controversies: Uncontested Adjudication in Article III Courts by James E. Pfander 9780197571408
RRP: $113.52$97.18This book offers a new account of the power of federal courts in the United States to hear and determine uncontested applications to assert or register a claim of right. Familiar to lawyers in civil law countries as forms of voluntary or non-contentious... -
His Praises We'll Sing by David Blackwell 9780193532717
$5.16for SATB (with divisions) and piano This is a high energy, foot-tap inducing setting of a well-known text. The bluesy melodies, jazzy harmonies, and swung rhythms give the piece a gospel feel and fill you with the infectious urge to boogie along to the... -
Belonging across Borders: Transnational Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Levke Harders 9780192867490
$103.25Borders and belonging are of immense importance as borders are being (re)defined, strengthened, or weakened all around the globe. Brexit, the proposed wall between the USA and Mexico, the India-Pakistan border-the drawing of social and spatial boundaries... -
Walter Pater's European Imagination by Lene Ostermark-Johansen 9780192858757
RRP: $138.68$125.38Walter Pater's European Imagination addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature. Pater's short pieces of fiction, the so-called 'imaginary portraits', trace the development of... -
Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind by Eric Marcus 9780192845634
RRP: $82.56$74.39It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for both to be true. This impossibility is a species of rational necessity, a phenomenon that uniquely characterizes the relation... -
Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature by Julia L. Mickenberg
RRP: $33.53$28.95Radical leftist stories...for children In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, "Strike down the wall!" and liberates itself from the "egg state." In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up... -
Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature by Abraham Chapman 9780451527820
$10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451527820Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 107mm *... -
The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel by Julia Sun-Joo Lee 9780195390322
RRP: $48.36$44.14The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel investigates the shaping influence of the American slave narrative on the Victorian novel in the years between the British Abolition Act and the American Emancipation Proclamation. In a period when few... -
This is Not a Novel and Other Novels by David Markson 9781619027145
RRP: $21.92$19.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027145Author David MarksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 31mm -
The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S. Levine 9780393892260
$50.50The 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... -
Collected Poems Of Lenore Kandel by Lenore Kandel
RRP: $41.28$27.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943724Author Lenore KandelFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922 (LOA #117) by Jackson R. Bryer 9781883011840
RRP: $51.60$32.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011840Author Jackson R. BryerFormat HardbackPage Count 1075Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)... -
The Wake Up by Catherine Ryan Hyde 9781542047951
$13.33From 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... -
Granta 133: What Have We Done by Sigrid Rausing 9781905881918
RRP: $16.76$11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881918Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Granta 136: Legacies of Love by Sigrid Rausing 9781905881970
RRP: $16.76$11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881970Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Hemingway on Fishing by Hemingway
$14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743219181Author HemingwayPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson by Cristanne Miller 9780198833932
RRP: $141.90$141.33The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson is designed to engage, inform, interest, and delight students and scholars of Emily Dickinson, of nineteenth-century US literature and cultural studies, of American poetry, and of the lyric. It also establishes... -
Collected Nonfiction Volume 1: Selections from the Autobiography, Letters, Essays, and Speeches by Mark Twain
RRP: $19.35$14.65Politics, religion, culture, travel, science and technology, family life: nothing escaped the eye and pen of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, nineteenth-century America's most famous writer and a legend in his own lifetime. Though... -
Chicago: The Second City by A. J. Liebling 9780803280359
RRP: $19.34$15.38Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City's people and culture-its colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume IV: Prose: 1956-1962 by W. H. Auden 9780691147550
RRP: $100.62$78.57This fourth volume of W. H. Auden's prose provides a unique picture of this legendary writer's mind and art when he was at the height of his powers, from 1956 through 1962, including the years when he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The volume... -
River Teeth: Stories and Writings by David James Duncan 9780553378276
RRP: $21.93$14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553378276Author David James DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Worthy by Catherine Ryan Hyde 9781477830130
$13.09New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde tells the story of two strangers coming together and uncovering a shared tragedy that kept them apart. They might've been a family. Virginia finally had the chance to explore a relationship with... -
The New Negro by Alain Locke 9780684838311
RRP: $30.96$20.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684838311Author LOCKEFormat PaperbackPage Count 467Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 441g -
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition by Schomburg Center
RRP: $21.92$14.54A groundbreaking collection of abolitionist writing from throughout the history of American slaveryFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the ambiguity of the reconstruction era, resistance and protest writing were a central part of... -
Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing by Richard Brautigan 9780395974698
$16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395974698Author Richard BrautiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin -
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness by Rebecca Walker
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593764173Author Rebecca WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press -
Language, Form, and Logic: In Pursuit of Natural Logic's Holy Grail by Peter Ludlow 9780199591534
RRP: $112.23$101.79This 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...