Literary Figures

A scholarly edition of Elias Ashmole's autobiographical and historical notes, his correspondence, and other contemporary sources relating to his life and work. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976248Author Binyavanga WainainaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

"Streamlined and impacting, Darla Worden's Cockeyed Happy could be construed as a narrative of the author himself, a compelling account of Hemingway's summers in Wyoming-and I can think of no finer compliment."-Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558858091Author VillasenorFormat PaperbackImprint Arte Publico PressPublisher Arte Publico PressWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 36mm

Wordsworth: A Poetic Life is a new biography of the great father of British Romanticism. It is new in several ways, most notably in the way it approaches the life of the poet. Paying its proper respect to the classic lives of Wordsworth by Mary Moorman...

Five years after his death, Stieg Larsson is best known as the author of the Millennium Trilogy, but during his career as a journalist he was a crucial protagonist in the battle against racism and for democracy in Sweden, and one of the founders of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250094193Author Linda LearFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439187500Author Gerald ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 771g

Basil Bunting, one of the greatest modernist poets, had an extraordinary life. Born in the mining village of Scotswood in Tyneside in 1900, after a largely Quaker education, during which at the age of 13 he met the love of his life, he left school in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560931Author Jean GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncDimensions(mm) 178mm * 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376394Author Daniel MendelsohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250182487Author Caroline FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 499g

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." -Margaret...

Eighty-five years after his wrenching death in a cramped Lisbon apartment, where he left more than 25,000 manuscript sheets in a wooden trunk, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of the most enigmatic and underappreciated poets of the twentieth...

An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926743042Author Jeff MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Invisible PublishingPublisher Invisible Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize 1988.Book InformationISBN 9780385485562Author Naguib MahfouzFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451621334Author Carol SklenickaFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947951624Author Patti BenderFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint City Point PressPublisher City Point PressWeight(grams) 924g

This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). Between 1885 and 1905, this pioneer in the African-American literary tradition published three novels, two books of short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613736784Author Tom WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

This is an interesting book of conversations, which not only endorses the life and thoughts of Ashok Vajpeyi, but also praises poetry in general. Ashok Vajpeyi is a poet who is at home with the word. He speaks to the mortals and the divinities. He makes...

The follow-up to And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat's memoir My Father's Son charts the course of a family relationship in the midst of extreme trial. Taking place during Mowat's years in the Italian Campaign, the memoir is mostly told through original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534780Author Elizabeth KleinhenzFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807033807Author Richard BlancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

"Still, we have the same solitude, the same journeys and searching, and the same favorite turns in the labyrinth of literature and history."-Boris Pasternak to Marina TsvetaevaOne of the most compelling episodes of twentieth-century Russian literature...

Leaping from ballet to quiltmaking, from the The Nutcracker to an Annie-B Parson interview, Idiophone is a strikingly original meditation on risk-taking and provocation in art and a unabashedly honest, funny, and intimate consideration of art-making in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137728Author Laura ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 447g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598530575Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)...

“A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language.”—Entertainment WeeklyThe revered New York Times bestselling author of House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea ponders...

Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753--1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth century -- an actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popular novelist, and a drama critic. Considered a...

Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time. Iris Murdoch's pioneering study analyses and evaluates the different strands of Sartre's...

In the early fall of 1958, the notorious Olympia Press in Paris published a novel entitled Candy, an erotic, Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide by one Maxwell Kenton, pseudonym of its coauthors, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg...

Fifty favorite columns from Atlanta's journalistic giants.Book InformationISBN 9781563524608Author Tom BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher Taylor Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628726107Author Sally ClineFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 347gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139135Author Alessandro BarberoFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Among the American avant-garde of the early twentieth century, Floyd Dell played a distinctive role. A boy from the Midwest who rose to influence in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and in the heyday of Greenwich Village radicalism, he became a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771077760Author Val RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Emblem EditionsPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231107068Author Thekla ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956763157Author John IrvingFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...