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Does That Make Sense?: The Best of Joe Blundo by Joe Blundo 9780814255315
RRP: $25.74$19.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255315Author Joe BlundoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays by William Styron 9780812978759
RRP: $16.76$11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978759Author William StyronFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm)... -
Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene by James Henry 9780803276192
RRP: $20.63$19.08The eighteen essays in this collection show Henry James (1843-1916) in a new and unexpected light-as a political commentator and social reformer. His acute powers of observation, his unerring feel for social nuance, and his abiding interest in the news,... -
Sublime Physick: Essays by Patrick Madden 9780803239845
RRP: $25.79$22.63A follow-up to Patrick Madden's award-winning debut, this introspective and exuberant collection of essays is wide-ranging and wild, following bifurcating paths of thought to surprising connections. In Sublime Physick, Madden seeks what is common and... -
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations by Stephen Copley 9780719039430
RRP: $25.79$22.99First published in 1776, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is much more than just a handbook on the principles of free-market economics; it is a founding text for the organisation of Western society in its broadest sense.In order to understand the impact of... -
Note Book Jeff Nunokawa 9780691166490
RRP: $32.25$29.45"The hunger for a feeling of connection that informs most everything I've written flows from a common break in a common heart, one I share with everyone I've ever really known."--Note Book Every single morning since early 2007, Princeton English... -
Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees by Laren McClung 9780393354287
RRP: $20.63$17.74Fifty years after the Vietnam War, this anthology by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees-American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Diaspora, Hmong, Australian, and others-confronts war and its aftermath. What emerges is an affecting portrait of the... -
Lost and Found: Stories from New York by Thomas Beller 9780393331912
$17.31Acclaimed fiction writer Thomas Beller culls a new volume of essays, vignettes, and tales of the city from the literary Web site Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, one of the premier venues for the urban sketch on the Internet. Lost and Found, Volume II of the... -
Morningstar: Growing Up with Books by Ann Hood 9780393254815
RRP: $21.92$19.85In her admired works of fiction, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story behind these works of fiction. Growing up in a household that didn't foster the love of literature,... -
The End of the End of the Earth: Essays by Jonathan Franzen 9780374906757
RRP: $24.50$4.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374906757Author Jonathan FranzenFormat PaperbackImprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 227g -
Censura Literaria, Vol. 9: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books; With Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography and Other Literary Antiquities (Classic Reprint) by Egerton Brydges 9780364462850
RRP: $37.40$28.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780364462850Author Egerton BrydgesFormat HardbackPage Count 461Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books -
Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage by James Marcus 9780231159319
RRP: $32.25$25.27The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's book section, the series also allows authors address such... -
Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage by James Marcus 9780231159302
RRP: $103.20$79.84The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's book section, the series also allows authors address such... -
Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon 9780062851291
$17.58A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon-"one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko Kakutani,... -
Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 by Francesco Durante 9780823260614
RRP: $132.87$117.05To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with... -
La Soeur by B. Kite 9780859893985
RRP: $25.80$21.19La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. It is an ingenious adaptation, long unidentified, of an Italian comedy, La Sorella (c.1584), by the polygraph Giambattista Della Porta; sometimes it remains close to the... -
Pulse to Planet: The Long Lifeline of Human Health by Srinath K. Reddy 9789356994638
$28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356994638Author Srinath K. ReddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic and Creative Nonfiction by John Loughery 9780892552412
RRP: $21.87$21.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892552412Author John LougheryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books Inc -
The Believer, Issue 92 by Heidi Julavits 9781936365937
RRP: $10.32$8.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936365937Author Heidi JulavitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 213g -
Eighteenth-Century Genre And Culture: Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms : Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter by Dennis Todd 9780874137590
$138.80This collection of essays, including contributions by Paula Backscheider, Martin C. Battestin, and Patricia Meyer Spacks- examines the relationship between history, literary forms, and the cultural contexts of British literature from the late seventeenth... -
Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays by Joseph Epstein 9781604191004
RRP: $23.21$16.38Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called... -
Handy to Home by Tom Hennessey 9780892724932
RRP: $24.50$22.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892724932Author Tom HennesseyFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint Down East Books,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 753g -
Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women by Joan E. Hartman 9781611492910
$117.30Structures and Subjectivities refers to what we can and probably cannot know about women in the early modern period. Scholars study the societal structures their disciplines call attention to; they are left to infer the subjectivities, the lived... -
Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin by Albert J. Rivero 9780874136166
$134.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874136166Author Albert J. RiveroFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson 9781555975548
RRP: $20.64$12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781555975548Author Ander MonsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Graywolf... -
Great Bush Stories: Colourful yarns and true tales from life on the land by Graham Seal 9781760633042
RRP: $32.19$19.26'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AMThe tradition of yarns from the bush goes back to the earliest days in Australia. Colourful rural characters and dramatic incidents parade through our history and folklore, entertaining and... -
Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays by Aisha Sabatini Sloan 9781644452714
RRP: $23.22$16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452714Author Aisha Sabatini SloanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate 9780316485364
RRP: $24.50$14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316485364Author Jenny SlateFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen 9780802160508
RRP: $25.79$22.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160508Author Viet Thanh NguyenFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023 by Rick Bass 9781640096301
RRP: $36.11$23.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640096301Author Rick BassFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays by Guy Davenport 9781567927771
RRP: $21.92$15.05Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth century. Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music... -
The Unwritten Book: An Investigation by Samantha Hunt 9781250863089
RRP: $25.80$19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250863089Author Samantha HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 30mm -
A Literary Education and Other Essays by Joseph Epstein
RRP: $23.21$22.56Who invented the personal essay? That is hard to say. The ancient Roman philosopher and cynical power broker, Seneca? The 16th century French philosopher Montaigne certainly brought it to a peak of perfection. There were many 19th century masters, not so... -
When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson 9781250024053
RRP: $21.93$12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250024053Author Marilynne RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
As Fit as a Fish: The English and Italians Revealed Laura Tosi 9780993010644
RRP: $12.90$12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993010644Author Laura TosiFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Patrician PressPublisher Patrician PressDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 11mm -
Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing: Ireland in Crisis: v. 6, No. 1 by Chris Agee 9780956104670
RRP: $12.90$11.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956104670Author Chris AgeeFormat PaperbackImprint IRISH PAGESPublisher IRISH PAGES -
Starkness at Noon by Richard Boston 9780907123323
RRP: $10.31$8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123323Author Richard BostonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Voice: Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness by Adam Pottle 9780889775930
RRP: $19.34$18.94In Voice , Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer's development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what it was like growing up in a world... -
Imagining Ancient Women by Annabel Lyon 9780888646293
RRP: $12.89$10.64Annabel Lyon's passion for historical novels and her love of ancient Greece make her lecture on the process of creating characters of historical fiction captivating. She discusses the process of wading through historical sources-and avoiding myriad... -
Performing The "Everyday": The Culture of Genre in the Eighteenth Century by Alden Cavanaugh 9780874139709
RRP: $87.72$79.63This interdisciplinary anthology explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane as well as the heroic. Comprised of essays by established and emerging...