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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743201100Author Yoko OnoFormat HardbackImprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color ...A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239797Author Cole Arthur RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953387448Author Hanif AbdurraqibFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Two Dollar RadioPublisher Two Dollar RadioWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by David...

Apologies 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

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 1955 and Pulitzer Prize 1955.Book InformationISBN 9781101911686Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House USA...

A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, continuing the charge against the sacred in contemporary poetry. Poemland alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular, and the outrageous. If...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life...

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionised modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables,...

How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684126606Author Robert FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 823gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and A FAREWELL TO ARMS. But he was equally prolific as a writer of short stories which touch on the same themes as the novels:...

A 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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AND THE GIFT THAT WILL BE ON EVERY BRUCE AND BARACK FAN'S WISH LIST THIS CHRISTMAS!Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS A FAVOURITE READ TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR, NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST'Brilliantly imagined, larger than life, a tragicomedic epic of intertwined lives.' JOYCE CAROL...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943686575Author Jay MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Good2go PublishingPublisher Good2go PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807016947Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

At a time when interest in the outdoors is at an all time high, this year sees the launch of a brand new guidebook: Almost Wild Camping, from the experts behind the best-selling Cool Camping series. Featuring 50 off-grid-style campsites in some of...

You should ever bear in mind that it is to your kind parents that you are indebted for your food, and for the privilege of staying home from school when you let on that you are sick. Therefore you ought to respect their little prejudices, and humor their...

A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor."Without stories, we cannot live well," shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies 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

One 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...

"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...

Apologies 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.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807018675Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an...

'Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny' Observer'The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace' New York TimesBest known for her short fiction, it was upon publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women in 2015 that Lucia Berlin's status as...

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

A must-have classic that every Lovecraft fan and collector will love. From the sumptuously designed Timeless Classics series, The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531865Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 267g

In 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...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual...

Self-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...

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...

'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...