Literary Figures

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416591313Author Ernest HemingwayFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771621946Author William SteeleFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

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Daughter of Damascus presents a personal account of a Syrian woman's youth in the Suq Saruja ("old city") quarter of Damascus in the 1940s. Siham Tergeman wrote this book to preserve the details of a "genuine Arab past" for Syrian...

Raintree County, the first novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., was the publishing event of 1948. Excerpted in Life magazine, it was a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, won MGM's Novel Award and a movie deal, and stood at the top of the nation's bestseller...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429093125Author Caroline TicknorFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood BooksWeight(grams) 376g

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This comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618839346Author Donald HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872500Author Katherine RundellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

As the acclaimed author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) has been publishing stories and novels for more than sixty years. His brilliant portrayals of race, community, and culture in rural...

Robert Morgan (b. 1944) is one of the most distinguished writers in southern and Appalachian literature, celebrated for his novels, poetry, short fiction, and historical and biographical writing, totaling more than thirty volumes. Morgan's work gives...

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously...

The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition is a collection of anecdotal reflections that relate many of the experiences that shaped Barry Gifford as a writer. Representative of Gifford's body of work, this volume is divided...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210415Author Primo LeviFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439182710Author Ernest HemingwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063092792Author Ann PatchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 135g

The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250893550Author Darryl PinckneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall's evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period...

Over 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed novelist and poet Robert Morgan offers a new biography of...

The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacity-and the limits-of marriage. The Lawrences come alive not as simple quarreling travelers, nor as blissful...

Love, Daddy: Letters from My Father examines the complexities of father-and-son relationships through letters and photographs. Willie Morris wrote scores of letters to his only son, David Rae Morris, from the mid-1970s until Willie's death in 1999. From...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365333Author Helena KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995109537Author Deborah ShepardFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University Press

The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's moving homage to Vladimir Boudnik, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Gentle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525432210Author Gregory PardloFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing:Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing a theory to explain and illustrate the main regulations governing such genre play. It centers on fact and fiction duality in the...