Literary Figures

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be...

Flannery O'Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith tells the remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and eventually succeeded in becoming one of the most accomplished fiction writers of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441436930Author Josae Manuel Lucaia MegaiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433980311Author Ivan JablonkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 137mm * 18mm

Jerry W. Ward Jr. (b. 1943) has published nonfiction, literary criticism, encyclopedias, anthologies, and poetry. Ward is also a highly respected scholar with a specialty in African American literature and has been recognized internationally as one of...

It's been barely twenty years since Dave Eggers (b. 1970) burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. In that time, he has gone on to publish several books of fiction, a few more...

Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447061421Author Klaus W JonasFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 5670g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447061414Author Editor Roger AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 395Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 879g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040775Author Jeannie VanascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869006Author Daniel WeissbortFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907650574Author Hans Christian AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300245Author Roy KiyookaFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 188g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114969Author Andrew McNeillieFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 245g

Improvisations of Empire offers a historical, biographical and literary study of the life and writings of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), the son of a Lowland tenant farmer in Scotland. It examines his Scottish journalistic and literary career, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785273780Author Matthew ShumFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378107Author Rachel CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Ivan Konevskoi: "Wise Child" of Russian Symbolism is the first study in any language of Ivan Konevskoi -- poet, thinker, mystic- - for many decades the "lost genius" of Russian modernism. A fresh and compelling figure, Konevskoi...

Discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissancewomen who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of ShakespeareIn an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us...

The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on...

E. B. White (1899-1985) is best known for his children's books, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Columnist for The New Yorker for over half a century and co-author of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, White hit his...

Sutin's ingeniously constructed memoir uses duotone reproductions of postcards - by turns nostalgic, quaint or exotic- as Rorschach blots to evoke his deepest memories and feelings. Here he writes about typical events - Little League, his discovery of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911204558Author John SutherlandFormat HardbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996348Author Neil CurryFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

George Ehrlich Award Recipient In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park,...

Chicago Writers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year (2017) Society of Midland Authors Literary Award in Biography (2017) A tireless champion of the downtrodden, Nelson Algren, one of the most celebrated writers of the 20th century, lived an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863959209Author Philippe PaquetFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint La Trobe University PressPublisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 1208gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

An Absurd Vice, the critical biography of Cesare Pavese by his friend and fellow-writer Davide Lajolo, has been celebrated in Italy since its publication there in 1960. With well-balanced affection and blame, it presents a portrait of the prize-winning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804120937Author Maya AngelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119937Author Edna O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 143gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 129mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804670170Author Daniel DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781721810Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770867260Author Marie UguayFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Cormorant Books,CanadaPublisher Cormorant Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 354g

Through the lens of Samuel Hazo's engaging poems, Janine Molinaro tells the story of this fascinating man's life and career. Facilitated by extensive interviews with the poet and deeply moving excerpts from his personal journals, Molinaro provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736102114Author Jon HasslerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Afton Historical Society PressPublisher Afton Historical Society PressWeight(grams) 127g

Petersburg Winters (1928), a portrait of Petersburg drowning in the artistic ferment of late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. Georgy Ivanov is the fictional narrator of this tragic and artistically glorious period 1910-1925. Ivanov's memoir is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608195213Author Jesmyn WardFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 404g

"The pleasure of reading the Education is . . . the pleasure of seeing history come alive, of seeing it move, of seeing behind history to the actions and actors. It is the pleasure of seeing revealed the humanity so often concealed in history." -Alfred...

Aleksey Peshkov overcame indigence, violence, and suicidal despair to become Maksim Gorky, one of the most widely read and influential writers of the twentieth century. Childhood, the first book in Gorky's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, depicts his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978464Author Deborah BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...