Literary Figures

In the original introduction to Pascal D'Angelo's Son of Italy, the renowned literary critic Carl Van Doren praised D'Angelo's autobiography as an impassioned story of his "enormous struggles against every disadvantage." In his narrative of his fruitless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Jewish Book Award (Book of the Year) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780151008780Author Mr Amos OzFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743292917Author Staceyann ChinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612194219Author Ray BradburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156260404Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams's quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor, William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of...

Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of our time." In each of the book's nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia's literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501142710Author Andrew WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South until the dawn came...

The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the California coast come alive in the poetry of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of the environmental movement. In this concise and accessible biography, Jeffers scholar James Karman reveals...

How did a beautiful, talented college student fall in love with a man serving twenty-to-life for murder? Why did she marry him? At a time when one in four black men is caught in the web of the criminal justice system, Asha Bandele shatters the myths of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578304809Author Preston FasselFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Encyclopocalypse PublicationsPublisher Encyclopocalypse PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987559876Author Lennart SvenssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 426g

WHAT IS YOUR FIRST MEMORY? Or, rather, what do you imagine to be your earliest memory? Perhaps, alternatively, there was a moment during childhood when the world's axis shifted? A transformative realisation, epiphany or experience that changed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471646631Author Samuel A. SchreinerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. He has sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country music that followed. But by the time of his death at the age of 29, he had drugged and...

This is the first biography of Sir John Squire since 1963 and reassesses the triumphs and tragedies, through a modern lens, of a man whom The Times called the most brilliant of our present day poets and critics. J.C. Squire (1884-1958) was, amongst many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666718935Author David C DowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Ernest Hemingway is most often associated with Spain, Cuba, and Florida, but Italy was equally important in his life and work. This book, the first on the subject, explores Hemingway s visits throughout his life to such places as Sicily, Genoa, Rapallo,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027763Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Jane Williams (Ysgafell) was a writer with a long and varied list of publications: poetry, fiction, a riposte to the 1847 Blue Books, the 'autobiography' of Betsi Cadwaladr, a history of Wales, a biography of the historian and patriot Carnhuanawc, and a...

A fascinating look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford, bestselling author of the unforgettable A Woman of Substance From the cobbled streets of Yorkshire to the sweeping avenues of Manhattan, Barbara's...

A fascinating look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford, bestselling author of the unforgettable A Woman of Substance From the cobbled streets of Yorkshire to the sweeping avenues of Manhattan, Barbara's...

As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it. 'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done it, but if not he, who then and why? So the next...

As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it. 'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done it, but if not he, who then and why? So the next...

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism-a new term introduced in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345514400Author Maya AngelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724354Author John HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724354Author John HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

A study of the life of Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote. It traces his life as a soldier, as a tax collector, his time as a prisoner of war of the Turks, and finally the publication of Don Quixote in 1605.Book InformationISBN 9780393028126Author Jean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087883Author Edward ChithamFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385337793Author Susan ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857160065Author Colin DavisonFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Northumbria PressPublisher McNidder & Grace

More than eight decades after his death, the works of Franz Kafka continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those with only a fleeting acquaintance with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries and letters, 'Kafkaesque' has become a byword for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994430601Author Oscar WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 66Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael Walmer

On 3 January 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old "genius"-by his own reckoning-arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made a spectacle of himself in London with his fashion sense, acerbic wit, and passion for art and design, and was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Bram Stoker Awards (Nonfiction) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780451213044Author Bev VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing...

Sacco paved the way for Palestine with his powerful triptych on modern war and its innocent victims, originally published in his comic Yahoo and collected here: 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People' chronicles the effect of aerial warfare on civilians,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780316118781Author Professor Frederick BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671003777Author Alice WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.Publisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...