Literary Figures

'Deeply moving... This is a beautiful book.' TLS______________________________Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford University when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and...

One of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century, the Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas is as famous for his poetry as he is for his dissolute, Bohemian lifestyle and tempestuous personal life. In The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas,...

When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399159114Author Arthur GelbFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174449Author Elisabeth GilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming's On Chapel...

When her questions remained unanswered by multiple how-to guides, despite how her writing career was now thriving, Linda decided to go straight to the source: her favourite storytellers across numerous genres. So, Linda co-created the Beautiful Writers...

An approachable abridgment of Sartre's important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by...

'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning - the merging of senseless subjectivities.' In 1950s...

An intimate portrait of Patrick O'Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy. Patrick O'Brian was one of the greatest British novelists of the twentieth century, securing his place in literary history with the...

Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism,...

"A page turner, even for those familiar with the subject...The surprising truth that emerges is no less human, and no less revealing about the Victorians than the myths; on the contrary it gives a far more compelling insight into what relationships,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389831Author Haruki MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679781424Author Piri ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935554486Author Doris Langley MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 557g

The Kick is a page-turner, based upon private diaries kept over the long life and disjointed times of the poet Richard Murphy. Born (1927) in the relics of a walled demesne near Kilamine, County Mayo, he was shipped out and back twice to the British...

One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner...

Since the publication of her groundbreaking collection, The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard has been heralded as a master of the autobiographical essay, a form that has recently gained popularity with the works of Leslie Jamison, Eula Biss, Esme Weijun...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740704Author Nathan McCallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 311g

Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year,...

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'This is such a great idea for a book, and Michelle Dean carries it off, showing us the complexities of her fascinating, extraordinary subjects, in print and out in the world. Dean writes with vigor, depth, knowledge and...

New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master...

______________ 'I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White ... Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page' - Observer 'One of the great prose stylists of our time ... There are few paragraphs that...

'I took you because you were the most fearless.' AUGUST STRINDBERG TO ALBERT BONNIER, 1884.In 1835, a fifteen-year-old boy, the son of a Jewish bookseller, arrived in Stockholm from Copenhagen. Two years later, he published his first book. During...

Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a...

Raymond Williams is widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and influential thinkers of the post-war era. He wrote extensively across a wide range of subjects: from drama and the novel to politics, popular culture and mass communications. He...

An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work "[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb."-New Yorker A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) found inspiration in London's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720612226Author Sarah M. HallFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524732103Author Helena KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Knopf Publishing GroupPublisher Knopf Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling postwar poet, was a German-speaking, East European Jew. His writing exposes and illumines the wounds that Nazi destructiveness left on language. John Felstiner's sensitive and accessible book is the first critical...

A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent...

David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not only experienced the war in all its horror, but who was...

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America's greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognised as a master of formal verse that drew on wide-ranging cultural and literary sources, as well as Hecht's experiences as a soldier during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671755140Author FISHERFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643258Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 1184Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1168gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

A revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publishing short stories, humor pieces, and articles at an astonishing rate, and was still a practicing physician. ...

This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250792495Author Mark DawidziakFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New...