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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915008100Author Larry GoodellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Duende PressPublisher Duende PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913785966Author Michael CzyzniejewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Moon City PressPublisher Moon City PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States. Many of the most famous American works of the nineteenth century that...

Though he has authored more than eleven novels, including Cassandra Singing, The Suicide's Wife, Abducted by Circumstance, and the recent London Bridge in Plague and Fire, David Madden has been publishing short stories for all six decades of his active...

"Indispensable . . . Should become The Book of Virtues for patriots." -Mona Charen, nationally syndicated columnist.Concerned about rising cynicism and apathy, more and more Americans lament the decline in patriotic feeling and civic engagement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554816194Author Derrick R. SpiresFormat PaperbackPage Count 1528Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press Ltd

An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American immigrant novel published in Welsh. The Native American epic, Walum Olum, in the Lenape language. Theodor Adorno's dream transcripts, in German. A short story...

When Ruth Hall was originally published in 1855, it caused a sensation. In it, Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) portrays a mid-nineteenth-century woman who realizes the American Dream solely on her own becoming the incarnation of the American...

The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, Billy Budd, Sailor is often treated as a masterpiece, a canonical work. But that assessment is at...

When her 1912 story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, was rescued from obscurity in the 1990s, scholars were quick to celebrate Sui Sin Far as a pioneering chronicler of Asian American Chinatowns. Newly discovered works, however, reveal that Edith Eaton...

From a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, The Princeton Reader brings together more than 90 favorite essays by 75 distinguished writers. This collection of nonfiction...

This volume contains all of W. H. Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book includes the complete text of Auden's first separately published prose book, The...

Praise for Sam Pickering:"Pickering has all of Thurber's humor, and he writes as well as E. B. White. He writes with passion, wit, and a strange personal note of self-mockery; he is humanely educated, wise, and capable of a wide range of stylistic...

"Permit me to say that I have won Hopwoods and also lost them, and I know the power that winning gives and the way the soul shakes when, all ears, you hear silence instead of your name."-Arthur MillerThe Hopwood Awards claim a gallery of prizewinners who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393886177Author Robert S LevineImprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm * 36mm

Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and...

"There is something both marvelous and hilarious," writes Lawrence Weschler, "in watching the humdrum suddenly take flight. This is, in part, a collection of such launchings." Indeed, the eight essays collected in "A Wanderer in the Perfect City" do soar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594380Author Bob HicokFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 212g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061735004Author Mark TwainFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

In this, his tenth book of essays, renowned raconteur Sam Pickering wanders from Nova Scotia to Tennessee, from a middle school athletic field to an English department. He tells stories about people named Googoo and Loppie. He examines trees and flowers...

Jim Thorpe never slept in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, the town formerly known as Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. But through a combination of ambition, necessity, and sheer luck, these small towns became the final resting place of the great American...

Contemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development. Effie Waller Smith, an African American woman...

The convergence of activists in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings captured the headlines in 1999. These demonstrations marked the first major expression on U.S. soil of worldwide opposition to inequality, privatization, and political...

For two spring days in 2001, John Updike visited Cincinnati, Ohio, engaging and charming his audiences, reading from his fiction, fielding questions, sitting for an interview, participating in a panel discussion, and touring the Queen City. Successful...

Moon City Review 2013 presents a collection of original poems, short stories, and essays from talented authors both established and emerging in their craft. The issue also features translations of work not originally composed in English, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911469103Author Janet GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Alan C Hood & CompanyPublisher Alan C Hood & Company

Part of ""The Collected Works of Langston Hughes"" series, this volume features his essays, from his radical pieces praising revolutionary socialist ideology in the 1930s to the more conservative, previously unpublished ""Black Writers in a Troubled...

My book aims to help readers understand and appreciate O'Connor's novels and short stories. It weaves together her "place"-Milledgeville, Georgia; her purpose-to write a good story; and her preoccupations-belief, death, grace, and the devil. I explicate...

With the appearance of the tenth and final volume of Collected Works, a project fifty years in the making reaches completion: the publication of critically edited texts of all of Emerson's works published in his lifetime and under his supervision. The...

"Permit me to say that I have won Hopwoods and also lost them, and I know the power that winning gives and the way the soul shakes when, all ears, you hear silence instead of your name."-Arthur MillerThe Hopwood Awards claim a gallery of prizewinners who...

Josephine Jacobsen, born in 1908, had her first poem published when she was just ten years old. Though Jacobsen has been writing and publishing for almost eighty years, she remained outside the literary world until she was named Consultant in Poetry to...

A distinguished writer in multiple genres-fiction, poetry, screenwriting, social documentary- James Agee first gained widespread recognition as a movie reviewer and critic. In October 1944, not quite two years after he became the film columnist for the...

Created for adventure addicts *A carefully curated collection of adventure classics *A Lyons American classic *Fresh, new series design There has never been a more exciting collection of stories that celebrate the indomitable spirit of the...

For the first time in many years, Langston Hughes's published collections of stories are now available in a single book. Included in this volume are: Ways of White Folks, originally published in 1934; Laughing to Keep from Crying, originally published in...

Higher Elevations: Stories from the West is a rich and varied anthology of fiction from Writers' Forum. As the subtitle promises, it is regional, but these are not all stories from your grandfather's (or Hollywood's) West. These are rodeos and forest...

This second volume of The &Now Awards recognises the most provocative, hardest-hitting, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2009-11. The &NOW Awards features writing as a contemporary art form:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393886153Author Robert S LevineImprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 887gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 152mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532734Author Elizabeth BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Contests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary formContests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian...

Four essential questions: Why does one fish? How should one properly fish? What relations are created in fishing? And what effects does fishing have on the future? Haunted by Waters is a self-examination by the author as he constructs his own narrative...