Literary Figures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345469366Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)...

Vocal Republican, accomplished gardener, lover of large cars, Ernest Haycox was nothing if not three-dimensional. Despite a haphazard childhood that included abandonment by his parents, Haycox (1899-1950) decided early on to be a writer. Once he began he...

"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life."The Times A lavishly illustrated...

Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few years, his name is familiar to every literate Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598211Author Nigel DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780679724636Author Gertrude SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605984599Author Juliet BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1184Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 1429gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Scotland's Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was...

Written with exquisite sensitivity and wit, this memoir by one of Mexico's foremost men of letters describes coming of age during the violence of the Mexican Revolution and "living dangerously" as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society...

Samuel Rogers was arguably the most widely read poet of the early nineteenth century. He was also a prominent figure in the literary and cultural life of London and owned one of the largest private art collections of his day. He was well known to at...

William Goyen was a writer of startling originality and deep artistic commitment whose work attracted an international audience and the praise of such luminaries as Northrop Frye, Truman Capote, Gaston Bachelard, and Joyce Carol Oates. His subject was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788493868987Author Mohamed ChukriFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Cabaret VoltairePublisher Cabaret Voltaire

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141002071Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm *...

KQED Radio's Michael Krasny is one of the country's leading interviewers of literary luminaries, a maestro for educated listeners who prefer their discourse high and civil. He is a writer's interviewer.But it didn't start out that way.In Off Mike,...

The condition of modernity springs from that tension between science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century technology. It manifests itself most notably in the crisis...

Late in his life T. S. Eliot, when asked if his poetry belonged in the tradition of American literature, replied: "I'd say that my poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my...

Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary career spanning over half a century during which time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345441300Author John IrvingFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803979Author Claire TomalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 337gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442638952Author A E CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 395g

Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) once said of himself, "I have no biography, only a bibliography." Yet, in thousands of letters written over his lifetime, his biography does unfold,...

Anna Pavlovna VygodskaiaAEs autobiography, originally published in 1938, is a rare and fascinating historical account of Jewish childhood and young adult life in Tsarist Russia. At a time when the vast majority of Jews resided in small market towns in...

For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679752936Author Philip RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295g

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny,...

In the 1890s Oscar Wilde enjoyed one of the most high-profile reputations in Britain; yet, virtually overnight, he was plunged into disgrace and ruin. What were the reasons for this extraordinary reversal of fortune? Ashley Robins explores Wilde's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780932132Author Carole E. NewlandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 348g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395073554Author Mukunda RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint WestlandPublisher Westland Publications Limited

A person of rare talent and broad appeal, Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890-1936) holds the distinction of being the first South Asian immigrant to have a successful career in the United States as a man of letters. As the author of two dozen published volumes of...

Farmers and pragmatists, hardworking people who made their way west from Kentucky through Ohio and Indiana to settle at last in southern Illinois, Lee Martin's ancestors left no diaries or journals or letters; apart from the birth certificates and...

Over a period of forty years, from 1947 to 1986, Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman wrote to each other constantly. The topics they wrote about were as wide-ranging as their interests and experiences, and their correspondence encompassed many of the...

Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swapping life stories. Dr. Wayne Flynt got the opportunity to do just this with Nelle Harper Lee. In a friendship that blossomed over a dozen years starting when...

Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write concretely and sensuously: about himself in order to understand his mid-life nervous breakdown; and about...

Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead -- this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156031066Author Tim GuestFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980520Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small...

Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis' years at Rugby and the Slade, his bohemian life on the...

This tender and personal memoir by the poet Joanna Ramsey of George Mackay Brown gives an account of some aspects of the last eight years of his life in Stromness, Orkney, and of the friendship between them. It also provides a background to his poem 'A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307405791Author Les StandifordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA Inc