Literary Figures

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

"Entertaining, moving, informative, intelligently hopeful: I know of few other books like this one to warm the cockles of a booklover's heart." --Alberto Manguel "For anyone who loves books too well--who lusts after them, lives in them, mainlines...

By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was...

A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"The paradoxical, individualistic, self-reliant, sometimes despicable, controversial 19th-century American writer comes alive in this fascinating biography. . . . The most complete work on Atherton . . ...

An autobiography unlike other literary forms shows the ego of an author. Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm's ego is delicate, fascinating, and courageous. Some fragments are almost like a movie with interesting dialog, compelling moments, and realistic...

In this major biography, Catherine Peters explores the complicated life of Wilkie Collins, the greatest of the Victorian "Sensation" novelists and author of the famous Woman in White and The Moonstone. An intimate of Dickens and of the...

In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Petain, head of state for the...

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199895823Author Benjamin MoserFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

This book explores Langston Hughes's efforts to mediate problems of identity and ethics he faced as an African-American professional writer and intellectual. Determined on a literary career at a time when no African American had yet been able to live off...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611458138Author Valerie Grosvenor MyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

John Updike's Early Years first examines his family, then places him in the context of the Depression and World War II. Relying upon interviews with former classmates, the next chapters examine Updike's early life and leisure activities, his athletic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558615731Author Joyce ZonanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684192505Author Charles ScribnerFormat HardbackPage Count 8Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743229456Author Barbara Robinette MossPage Count 256Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster

Based on the author's life as a gay man and a poet, King of Shadows is a collection of twenty-one autobiographical essays that circle in and around San Francisco since the 1960s. The three longest pieces deal with Aaron Shurin's coming into poetry and...

"You have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And no one else, I repeat, can write it."-William S. Burroughs Edie Parker was eighteen years old when she...

George Sand is one the most celebrated writers and controversial personalities of nineteenth-century France; she is as famous for her bohemian lifestyle as for her written work. The Last Love of George Sand portrays the writer, political activist, and...

In this provocative collection of memoirs, eight acclaimed writers go about the risky business of telling their own secrets. Collectively, they provide what amounts to a psychic map of American life, from the streets of New York’s East Village–where...

Includes episodes on: hitchhiking cross-country and provoking arrest to get out of the cold, being itinerant in Europe, sleeping off an amphetamine high on the floor in William Burrough's Spanish hotel room, working at a bookbindery in Spain doing a...

On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he enjoyed an idyllic time. But three years later,...

The most important German playwright since Brecht.-John Rockwell, New York TimesAbout the AuthorCarl Weber was a collaborator with Bertolt Brecht, and is an internationally known stage director. Carl Weber was a collaborator with Bertolt Brecht, and is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555540401Author Heiner MüllerFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams) 354g

In the tradition of essayists like Montaigne and Emerson, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling essays Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the...

James T. Farrell vaulted into the American literary firmament during the 1930s, becoming one of its brightest lights. "Studs Lonigan," his trilogy about a young Irish "tough" from Chicago's South Side, became a literary sensation and was acclaimed as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451621167Author F Scott FitzgeraldFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933377455Author Judith BarringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Eighth Mountain PressPublisher Eighth Mountain PressWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451621310Author Carol SklenickaFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 762g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451660012Author Han HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm *...

A scholarly edition of works by Samuel Johnson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198702214Author JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 514Imprint...