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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)...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays, Emerson takes the reader through different forms of...

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...

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

Anais Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented. It was not until decades later, when the diaries were published in their unexpurgated form, that the world began to learn the...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a stunning, emotional story of a young soldier's unthinkable act...and the unbreakable bonds between a sister and brother. Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when...

"Philip was a visionary like Blake, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand." -Lawrence Ferlinghetti"An inspired consciousness set at full tilt in raging protest, kisses, prayers, blessings, and outraged demands. All from the deepest silence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598530308Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 675gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528712231Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887341Author Antelope Hill PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

"At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs . . . a brave and interesting book." -David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Charles Bowden's Red Line is a look at America through the window of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940933085Author Jef CostelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Counter-Currents PublishingPublisher Counter-Currents PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786869183Author Caroline KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette Books

This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he's written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writers such as Dorothy Parker, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Wolfe...

New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994726216Author Brian HassettFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Gets Things Done PublishingPublisher Gets Things Done PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Eye You See With - the first and only collection of Robert Stone's nonfiction - was carefully selected by award-winning novelist and Stone biographer Madison Smartt Bell. Divided into three sections, the collection includes the best of Stone's war...

As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement. From her home on Old Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771863988Author Ishmael ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Baraka BooksPublisher Baraka BooksWeight(grams) 403g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469695815Author Jason HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Berea CollegePublisher Berea CollegeWeight(grams) 159g

Over sixty years of poems celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry.Gathering a lifetime of poetry, Ron Padgett’s Very Collected Poems is the ultimate record of the Pulitzer Prize finalist’s...

What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked:...

A definitive collection of Henry David Thoreau’s major essays, annotated and introduced by Lewis Hyde.Diverging from the long-standing custom of separating Thoreau’s politics from his interest in nature, renowned author Lewis Hyde brings together essays...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871691668Author Randolph S KleinFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871691675Author Frank M ChambersFormat HardbackPage Count 299Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

The 100th title in the much-loved Penguin Clothbound Classics series: a selection of stories, poetry and other writings from the master of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe. This volume demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which Poe...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607855163Author Khaled MattawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Michigan Publishing ServicesPublisher Michigan Publishing Services

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607855156Author Khaled MattawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Michigan Publishing ServicesPublisher Michigan Publishing Services