Literary Figures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436361Author Nick HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Edgar Award Nominee 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781641292696Author Jacqueline WinspearFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137685Author Henri TroyatFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 2006. Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9781400078431Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count...

"Since Spencer's Mountain I have followed Earl Hamner's career with much interest and much satisfaction, having picked a winner." -Harper Lee, author of To Kill a MockingbirdEarl Hamner, one of America's best-loved storytellers, has never been the...

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar...

Like Dickens, Pepys, and Dr. Johnson, Virginia Woolf had an intense personal and literary response to London, her native city and lifelong home. This book provides a dual portrait of the great writer and her London.Book InformationISBN...

Edward Thomas and Wales offers a fascinating re-evaluation of Thomas's writing. Bringing together for the first time the prose and poetry centred in Thomas's ancestral land of Wales, it explores the `Welshness' of Thomas's work and of Thomas himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438903Author May AminFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 257g

This volume, a reissue of the 1990 edition of Jeffares's biography of Yeats, with a new introduction and bibliography, is an account of Yeats's life and work. It features a collection of previously unpublished letters, photographs and poetry.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839256Author Helen McPhailFormat PaperbackImprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd

Writers' notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of things seen, heard, read, dreamt. But eventually they...

Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307885920Author Frances MayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Villa Diodati. 1816.In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his young wife Mary, gathered for the summer. For three glittering months, this party of young bohemians would share their lives, charged with sexual and artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854111807Author Rhys DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 235g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854111807Author Rhys DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 235g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449907986Author Margot PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602811Author Robert T. CrossleyFormat HardbackPage Count 474Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140282535Author Ariel DorfmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life played a huge part in his understanding of the world. A constant critic of power and authority, the roots of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four began to grow in his formative years as a...

Rich in evocative detail--from Paris cafes to Austrian chateaus, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West--The Ambulance Drivers tells the story of two aspiring writers, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, who met in World War I and...

The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The...

An arresting study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...

Bromfield's personal account of life and environmental practice at his Malabar Farm Both memoir and environmental commentary, this unique and classic work by Louis Bromfield engages and educates us as he demonstrates the importance of sustainable...

The publication of the letters of Ayn Rand is a cause for celebration, not only among the countless millions of Ayn Rand admirers the world over, but also among all those interested in the key political, philosophical, and artistic issues of our century...

'If there is a man who can read "The Prophet" without a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man is indeed dead to life and truth' - "The Chicago Post". Author of the international bestseller "The Prophet", Kahlil Gibran and his work remain...

"Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy." -Portland Book Review"An absorbing and unnerving read . . . this book demands to be finished in...

Award-winning author Marion Molteno takes us on a magical journey of discovery into the life of a writer and her readers. From book events in small English towns to huge literary festivals in India and Pakistan, from the mountains of Tajikistan to...

'For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door And Leerie stops to light it, as he lights so many more...' The picture of a small boy peering from a window at dusk to watch the lamplighter in the street is one of the enduring images of 19th-century...

Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His novels, shorter narratives, literary criticism, and fragmentary texts exercised enormous influence over several generations of writers, artists, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156619127Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 739g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743276917Author Luis J RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

Austerity Baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'. Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908699220Author Caroline WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809500772Author Fritz LeiberFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 652gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Katharine Briggs made an indelible mark on the world of folklore with her compilation of the Dictionary of British Folktales in the English Languages, while her subsequent Dictionary of Fairies confirmed her already distinguished place among British...

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book...

This first biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) has been written with the full co-operation of her three children, who allowed Wendy Pollard access to previously unexamined diaries, letters and much other material, illuminating their mother's...

The great Romantic poet Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for most of his life. His behaviour mystified his friends and other witnesses, yet he never imagined he was ill. Instead, he rationalised his behaviour as a fight for spiritual freedom and...