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With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fiction literature and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, critics, and scholars from around the world...

A harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream. Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723470Author Nicholas MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723470Author Nicholas MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 254g

Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams. This book, more than any...

The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Emile Zola. Written at the height of his career as a leading proponent of Naturalism, The Experimental Novel serves to illuminate the author's approach to the practice and purpose of writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788797426227Author Marion WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint Nybrogade PressPublisher Nybrogade Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646146Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackImprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer Magazine

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555972646Author William MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353338459Author Joseph MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

The first single-volume anthology of Brecht's writings on both art and politics This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356292000Author Mohsina KidwaiFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm

This beautiful collection of interviews, conducted by journalist, poet, novelist and artist Jacqueline Bishop, features insightful and entertaining conversations with many of Jamaica's most significant writers including Olive Senior, Lorna Goodison,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156153959Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977214Author Sven BirkertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618001934Author Jim HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131038Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm *...

In this study of the nuclear theme in Japanese intellectual and artistic life, John Whittier Treat argues that we have much to learn from Japanese writers and artists about the substance and meaning of the nuclear age. Treat recounts the controversial...

Lee Gutkind, proclaimed the "Godfather behind creative nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, along with the staff of his landmark journal Creative Nonfiction, has culled alternative publications, 'zines, blogs, podcasts, literary journals, and other often...

These influential essay and lectures by T. S. Eliot span nearly a half century--from 1917, when he published The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, to 1961, four years before his death. With the luminosity and clarity of a first-rate intellect, Eliot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060932237Author E. B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062434876Author Sarah GerardFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780375727160Author Martin AmisFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random...

America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50 years. Beginning with his debut play, The Zoo Story (1958), and on to his barrier breaking works of the...

The bold and surprising imagination of Joe Wenderoth is everywhere present in these essays moving fluidly between aesthetics, obscenity, America, censorship, and the craft of poetry. Fans of his previous work know he is one of those rare figures who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316485340Author Jenny SlateFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061543678Author Neil StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperEntertainmentPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538255Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478220Author Editors of N+1Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156290548Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon...

One of the great figures of modern French literature. Swiss-born in 1887, but French to the core in spirit, Cendrars roamed the world for many years, a restless seeker who made life an adventure and his novels and poems the record of a never-satisfied...

"[Eleanor's] sense of respect, her tact, her utter lack of obsequiousness ...and her uncanny ability to ask difficult questions ...have endeared her to readers and listeners."-Carol Shields Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780307744500Author Jonathan LethemFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198427Author V.S. PritchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm

Winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry PrizeSet in rural England during and after the bubonic plague pandemic of 1348-1349, this verse novel drives to the heart of what we humans are capable of when boiled down to our very core in the struggle to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255674Author Julie Marie WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476785189Author Colm ToibinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

After years living in the heart of the American Empire, the dramatist and novelist Edgar Nkosi White returned to his native Monserrat, still essentially a colony as a British Overseas Territory. Deported to Paradise is a series of free-floating...