Literary Figures

Yukio Mishima was the most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century: prodigiously talented, dazzlingly prolific and a prime candidate for the Nobel Prize. Yet in 1970 Mishima shocked the world with a bizarre attempt at a coup...

A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250245809Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA

"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch." -John D'Agata"Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437414Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists - recently voted best author of all time.'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW'An excellent biography' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Shields on Austen offers up a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824802882Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 315Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i PressWeight(grams) 810g

ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JIM BROADBENT "A painful, funny, frightening, moving, marvellous book ... everybody should read it" - Nick Hornby And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on...

Anne Bronte, the youngest and most enigmatic of the Bronte sisters, remains a bestselling author nearly two centuries after her death. The brilliance of her two novels - Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - and her poetry belies the quiet, yet...

This diary by the famed twentieth-century Russian writer recounts Babel's experiences with the Cossack cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. The basis for Red Cavalry, Babel's best-known work, it records the devastation of the war, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060545840Author Sam WellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists-the so-called middle generation, which included Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and...

Books about the work of James Joyce are an academic industry. Most of them are unreadable and esoteric. Adrian Hardiman's book is both highly readable and strikingly original. He spent years researching Joyce's obsession with the legal system, and...

Without apology Nobel Prize author Toni Morrison describes herself as an African-American woman writer. These collected interviews reveal her to be much more. She has shared space in her creative life for her career in publishing, in teaching, and in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211351Author Stefan MaechlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 434gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

The Drunken Sailor traces the life of Arthur Rimbaud: poet, surrealist, libertine and gun runner. In dazzling artwork, Nick Hayes follows Rimbaud from his youth in Ardennes to the poetry salons of Paris, from the absinthe-glazed passion of his...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512751Author Daniel HuwsFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Richard HollisPublisher Five Leaves Publications

May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. But, she writes, "When there is personal darkness, when there is a pain to be overcome, when we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743262460Author Carol SklenickaFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506462752Author Crystal DowningFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 Media

Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. The two were wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903110928Author Alice LushingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Wrecking Ball PressPublisher Wrecking Ball Press

Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974),...

'The book amounts to a comprehensive literary history of the time.' David Sexton, Evening StandardVolume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the poet, between the ages of forty-two and forty-four, reckoning with the strict implications of his Christian...

Peter Levi (1931-2000) was one of the most romantic and complicated of twentieth-century Oxford characters. Although descended on his father's side from Jewish carpet-merchants in Constantinople, he was brought up a Catholic and was a Jesuit from late...

Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important and influential poets to have written in German. His work, in its originality and impact, easily ranks with that of Goethe, Holderlin, or Rilke. Yet George's reach extended far beyond the sphere of...

In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544944435Author Lesley M M BlumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm...

Bruce Gilkison, a New Zealander and a great-great-grandson of Hogg's, walked through Scotland to discover what was special about him and his journeys. Like Hogg, he had no idea where these travels might lead. He found a world of stunning landscapes,...

Widely regarded as one of America's great authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald led a life of drama and extravagance that often overshadowed his writing career. This book refocuses attention on how Fitzgerald viewed and approached the business of writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095278Author Fred KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087982Author Nicholas CambridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

The final volume of the definitive authorised biography of one of the greatest American writers.'A moving testament to one of the last century's greatest writers' Sunday TimesAt forty-nine, Saul Bellow was at the pinnacle of American letters - he was...

The author of the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables kept her journal from the age of fifteen till her death. This edition will contain a generous selection in three volumes.Book InformationISBN 9780195415124Author L. M. MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage...

'Emer O'Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature ... Compelling, informative and fascinating' - Stephen Fry The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127145Author Lee DurkeeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 230mm...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is recognised as a giant of world literature; an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a student, he composed pastoral plays in the style of the waning Rococo. With Gotz von Berlichingen, a drama conceived in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195223Author Ernest HemingwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 112g

T. S. Eliot's career as a successful stage dramatist gathers pace throughout the fascinating letters of this volume. Following his early experimentation with the dark comedy Sweeney Agonistes (1932), Eliot is invited to write the words of an ambitious...