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American Literary Cultures: A Reader by Elizabeth J. Dell
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $32.13American 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... -
Billy Budd Melville Volume 11 by Northwestern University Press
Booksplease Price: $72.41The 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
Booksplease Price: $57.31American 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,... -
The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S Levine
Booksplease Price: $66.65Apologies 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 -
Paradise, New York: A Novel by Eileen Pollack
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.33We 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... -
Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 8; Later Simple Stories by Langston Hughes
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $60.37The 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... -
The Wapsipinicon Almanac: Selections from Thirty Years by Timothy Fay
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $29.19Apologies 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 -
The Powell Papers: A Confidence Man among the Anglo-American Literati by Hershel Parker
Booksplease Price: $84.77This 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... -
Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 13; Big Sea by Langston Hughes
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $64.22This 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... -
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 Harlan Coben 9780857895011
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.75HARLAN 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... -
T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons James E. Miller Jr. 9780271027371
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $39.33A 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... -
Best of "Prairie Schooner": Personal Essays by Hilda Raz
Booksplease Price: $28.29Called 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... -
Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker by David Remnick
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.55Apologies 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 *... -
Early Royko: Up Against it in Chicago by Mike Royko
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $19.56Combining 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... -
Allie and Bea by Catherine Ryan Hyde 9781477819715
Booksplease Price: $13.64An 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... -
Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature by Julia L. Mickenberg
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.55Radical 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... -
Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose (LOA #3) by Walter Whitman
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $37.67Apologies 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)... -
Essays in Humanism by Albert Einstein
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $17.29The 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... -
Rarotonga by Christian Williams 9780997253139
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $28.81Apologies 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 *... -
Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker by David Remnick 9781447250821
Booksplease Price: $29.12David 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 'The Bridge': An Annotated Edition by Lawrence Kramer
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $37.90Hart 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... -
As They Were by M. F. K. Fisher 9780394713489
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $23.47Apologies 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 *... -
The Best American Essays 2018 by Hilton Als 9780544817340
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.56Apologies 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: Speaking on Campus: Excerpts from His Talks, 1949-1962 by Robert Frost 9780393071238
RRP: $48.38Booksplease Price: $44.21Robert 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... -
The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $16.82Apologies 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 *... -
The Best American Essays 2022 by Robert Atwan
Booksplease Price: $22.56A 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... -
Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder Gary Snyder 9781619025462
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025462Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Frost by Robert Frost
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $16.73Apologies 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... -
The Best American Essays by Professor of English Robert Atwan 9780544103887
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.87Apologies 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 *... -
The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New England by Various
RRP: $19.60Booksplease Price: $16.82Apologies 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 *... -
The Sketch Book by Washington Irving 9783846077443
RRP: $79.85Booksplease Price: $73.54Apologies 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)... -
Collected Poems Of Lenore Kandel by Lenore Kandel
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $29.41Apologies 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)... -
The Collected Shorter Works Of Mark Twain by Louis J. Budd
RRP: $104.48Booksplease Price: $72.03Apologies 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 -
River Teeth: Stories and Writings by David James Duncan 9780553378276
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.41Apologies 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... -
Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings by Abraham Lincoln 9781598530537
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $18.20Apologies 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)... -
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals Vol. 2 1841-1877 (LOA #202) by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9781598530681
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $36.80When 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... -
Conversations with David Foster Wallace by Stephen J. Burn 9781617032271
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.66Across 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... -
The Best American Essays 2017 by Leslie Jamison 9780544817333
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.02Apologies 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 *... -
The O. Henry Short Story Collection - Volume I by O'Henry 9781603868211
Booksplease Price: $17.58Apologies 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 Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S. Levine
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.02The 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...