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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250206299Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932733Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Feminist PressPublisher Feminist Press

Beholding Beauty: Sa'di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry explores the relationship between sexuality, politics, and spirituality in the lyrics of Sa'di Shirazi (d. 1292 CE), one of the most revered masters of classical...

'Great Lives in Graphics' reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolour, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. You may already know that William Shakespeare was a playwright, but did you know he learned nothing...

Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and impassioned abolitionist in the decades leading up to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914497001Author Arlene Nikita MensahFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint His Promise Children's BooksPublisher His Promise Children's Books

A vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrants, as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time.Book InformationISBN 9781474434362Author Nabil MatarFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint...

The long-awaited second volume of A. David Moody's critically acclaimed three-part biography of Ezra Pound weaves together the illuminating story of his life, his achievements as a poet and a composer, and his one-man crusade for economic justice. The...

Sean Singer's radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman's, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612190907Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 175g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807018651Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time-or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man and is loved by men and women alike,...

Twain's playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling gifts are on full display as he regales readers with his real-life adventures, some of them so outrageous they cannot be true - or can they? As Richard Russo says in his fascinating introduction,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739813505Author Caroline ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint The Snow Print CompanyPublisher The Snow Print Company

These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he...

Politics, 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...

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway once declared. First published in 1885, the book has delighted millions of readers, while simultaneously riling contemporary sensibilities, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789363104Imprint Rockschool LtdPublisher Rockschool Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908471Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007358Author Sonia SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

"A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism."-Publishers Weekly"The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who's Black and Why? contain a world of ideas-theories, inventions, and fantasies-about what blackness is,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838156817Author Vaughn EntwistleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Masque Publishing LLCPublisher Masque Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578650517Author Edgar TiffanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Edgar TiffanyPublisher Edgar TiffanyWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993124853Author Josa KeyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Keyes Content LtdPublisher Keyes Content Ltd

From Dave the Dude to Al Capone: a defining collection from the world of Damon Runyon Damon Runyon grew up in the West, moved to New York City, and became one of the leading voices of American popular culture. From sports writing to short fiction, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889064Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933149561Author Morty DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Manic D Press,U.S.Publisher Manic D Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 218g

THRIVE IN THE FUTURE OF WORK provides a journey through the realities, implications and solutions for the rapidly changing world of work we live in today. It is not trying to be the remedy for future of work success. It is a practical account of what we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959487Author John FanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 445g

Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881819Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180136Author Ezra PoundFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 193mm *...

This 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...

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

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...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.What...

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 9780374517199Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

The collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.In this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and performance texts, Assotto Saint draws upon music and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547241609Author Dave EggersFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 142mm * 26mm