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American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors - particularly those of Texas and the Southwest - and includes readings representative of a broad array of American social and ethnic groups from first contact to early...

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...

American Homes by Ryan Ridge is a satirical exploration of the modern American home and its symbolic role in culture, identity, and society. Blending humor, wit, and sharp social commentary, the book dissects domestic spaces-attics, basements, kitchens,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393886122Author Robert S LevineImprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 798gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 152mm * 25mm

We first meet Lucy Appelbaum, the heroine of Paradise, New York, in 1970, as a nine-year-old girl enjoying her family's Catskills hotel, the Garden of Eden. Ten years later, having found nothing else at which she can distinguish herself, Lucy tries to...

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes is a compilation of the novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and other published work by one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential African American authors. This volume contains the later of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609388874Author Timothy FayFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams) 652g

This uses a few familiar documents and a mass of freshly discovered material (including a devastating portrait of Thomas Powell in a serialized novel) to unfold a captivating tale of skullduggery through the words of great artists and then-admired...

This is the first volume of the autobiography of Langston Hughes, covering the years up to 1931. Hughes offers recollections of his childhood in Kansas, his high school years in Cleveland, his sojourn with his father in Mexico, and his initial reactions...

HARLAN COBEN PICKS THE YEAR'S BEST CRIME WRITING Hand-picked by number one bestselling author Harlan Coben, this definitive anthology showcases the best of this year's crime-writing, from the masters of modern suspense and the stars of the future alike...

A major reinterpretation, T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons takes Eliot at his word in his reiterated statements that The Waste Land was not a "criticism of the contemporary world" but a personal "grouse against life." It is the...

Called one of the best magazines in America by Nan Talese and "the roots" in Esquire's garden of contemporary literature, and named one of Writer's Digest's "Nineteen Magazines That Matter," Prairie Schooner-one of the oldest and most prestigious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275752Author David RemnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution - in Jimmy Breslin's words, 'the best journalist of his time'. "Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago" will restore to print the...

An Amazon Charts bestseller. Humor and heart move the fast-paced journey of an unlikely pair coming together to form a family of their own in this touching story from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. Bea has barely been...

Radical 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450028Author Walt WhitmanFormat HardbackPage Count 1380Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm)...

The great thinker reflects on such topics as nuclear weapons, world poverty, and international affairs in this Wall Street Journal bestseller. Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997253139Author Christian WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint East Wind PressPublisher East Wind PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

David Remnick is a man much praised for his powers of observation, description and analysis, and Reporting contains his very best pieces from his first fifteen years as editor of The New Yorker. Here is Remnick on Don DeLillo, Philip Roth and The...

Hart 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394713489Author M.F.K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544817340Author Hilton AlsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 290g

Robert Frost's poetry has triumphantly survived him, but most readers today have not known him in one of his most significant capacities-as teacher and lecturer. Here, collected for the first time, are excerpts from forty-six of his presentations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062432964Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 183mm *...

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025462Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679455141Author Robert FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 165mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544103887Author Robert AtwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143104988Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783846077443Author Washington IrvingFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint Salzwasser-Verlag GmbhPublisher Salzwasser-Verlag GmbhWeight(grams)...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535280Author Louis J. BuddFormat HardbackPage Count 2126Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598530537Author Abraham LincolnFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation--his journals--remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 and continued without significant lapse...

Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays, to a book about transfinite mathematics, to vertiginous fictions. Whether through essay volumes (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544817333Author Leslie JamisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868211Author O'HenryFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

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...