Literary Figures

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492846Author Iman MersalFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit BooksWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837911042Author Roderick EasdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Acorn Books LtdPublisher Andrews UK Limited

While so many literary artists of earlier eras fall away, F. Scott Fitzgerald retains a hold on us, both through his work and through his life. There is something inscrutable in him, a fact he recognized himself and which New Yorker writer Arthur Krystal...

The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado's Children, and The...

In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540894Author Mario B MignoneFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 322g

A fascinating portrait of life in London, Germany and a Dominican convent around the end of the last century. The author has also included a chapter on the time she spent with her grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Maddox Brown.Book...

"So this is the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war!" Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said when he met the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation. Harriet Beecher Stowe's groundbreaking...

In this beautiful book of photographs and short essays, some of Appalachia's best-known writers profile each other and the place they call home. Edited by Bloodroot novelist Amy Greene and her husband Trent Thomson, this book also features Wendell Berry,...

"This is much more than a survival story. It is the story of how the scars of a woman can be and are passed through generations. It is about being a woman, a mother, and a daughter."--Gabriela Almeida, Continente "An infinite work."--O Estadao de Sao...

"An Icelandic-punk version of Catcher in the Rye." -- Dallas Morning News "If there were more people like Jon Gnarr the world wouldn't be in such a mess."-- Oliver Sacks The second book in a trilogy chronicling the troubled childhood of international...

"John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."-Alice Munro The Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115010Author Anne Price-OwenFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 585g

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own...

A friend and confident of Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein and many other dazzling figures from the 20th century, Lord Berners is now truly coming into his own. A newly discovered autobiographical reverie, Dresden, offers a window into the adolescence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412095Author Douglas GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771622141Author Grant Hayter-MenziesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

Scottish playwright and poet Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) is a key figure in British Romantic-era theater. In recent years her writings have returned to print, her plays have been performed in North America and the United Kingdom, and she has been the...

Gerald Stern's poetry has been variously praised for its visionary quality, its scope and passion, but most especially for its wholehearted embrace of life. Stern's special manner of joie de vivre is immediately evident in his prose pieces as well. In...

The creek behind John Daniel’s home in western Oregon disappears underground in the summer months. Using this creek as a metaphor, Daniel reflects on his own seasonal changes — from days as a student on LSD, rock climber, logger, and railroad worker, to...

"A bloody marvelous book." Harold PinterBook InformationISBN 9781564783585Author Aidan HigginsFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive PressWeight(grams) 1129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2003. Commended for Oregon Book Awards (Creative Nonfiction) 2003.Book InformationISBN...

Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and both published and private interviews, Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501142086Author Michael KatakisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 907g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439150214Author J Michael LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 947Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 975g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075980Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 562g

"Friends in the World reminds us how much we need each other to truly be ourselves."--L.A. Reader". . . a thoughtful self-depiction of a budding writer of the sixties as well as sympathetic portraits of fellow literary figures such as Ted...

"Our lives are Swiss," Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, "So still-so cool." But over the Alps, "Italy stands the other side." For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807025048Author Angela JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 463g

Henry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and "Civil Disobedience," a recluse of the woods and a political protester who once went to jail. To his contemporaries he was a minor disciple of Emerson; he has since joined...

Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the "color line" into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are...

William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional...

A scholarly edition of the life of Samuel Johnson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198702184Author JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint...

A scholarly edition of the life of Samuel Johnson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198702160Author JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 614Imprint...

The first comprehensive biography of Henry Howard, Poet Earl of Surrey, this influential book fills a major gap in the history of early modern British culture. Sessions's narrative combines historical scholarship with close readings of poetic texts and...

At the beginning of 1778, twenty-five-year-old Fanny Burney, second daughter of England's most eminent musicologist, Dr Charles Burney, was an unknown. By the year's end, however, she had emerged from his shadow as the author of Evelina, or, A Yound...

Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, Mark Twain and Male Friendship examines three profoundly influential and vastly different friendships in the life of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. With accessible prose informed...

A Star-Bright Lie recounts the age-old story of the young provincial who comes to New York and is dazzled and betrayed by the bright lights of Broadway, but with a few kinks to the story: the provincial in this case was gay and would later develop into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364459Author Thomas HardingFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 662g