Literary Figures

C.L.R. James is one of the twentieth century's most remarkable individuals. As the author of the influential book The Black Jacobins, he is widely recognized as the premier scholar of slave revolt; the publication of his acute and sensitive volume Beyond...

This book, first published in 1981, examines the dramatic and tragic stories of four of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century, their struggle to survive the Stalin years, and their dedication to their art despite considerable personal...

"How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?" Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling...

Publisher to the Decadents chronicles the experiences of Leonard Smithers (1861-1907), a key figure in the literary culture of late Victorian England. In his day he was known primarily for publishing books of upscale pornography. He became the publisher...

Bashan and I is the moving story of Thomas Mann's relationship with his spirited German short-haired pointer. From their first encounter at a local farm, Mann reveals how he slowly grows to love this energetic, loyal, and intelligent animal. Taking daily...

In Spills Angela Leighton combines poetry, memoir, libretto, short story, prose-poetry and translation, slipping between genres while hearing the conversations between them. 'You start from who you are, and walk and walk', she writes, in the spirit of...

"A bloody marvelous book." Harold PinterAbout the AuthorAidan Higgins has written short stories, novels, travel pieces, radio plays, and a large body of criticism. A consummate stylist, his writing is lush and complex. His books include "Scenes from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413184Author Jean McNeilFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 153mm...

One of Shakespeare's relatives was executed for plotting against Elizabeth I.There are more than 80 records of Shakespeare's name. Not one of them says 'William Shakespeare'.Shakespeare once played the ghost in Hamlet.Shakespeare wore a gold earring in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170427Author Nathaniel HawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558612396Author Katharine Butler HathawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press...

In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until Percy's death in 1990. Walker Percy, the highly regarded author of The Moviegoer, wrote six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195261Author Philip K. DickFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 164g

The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and...

2022 Atlantean Award, Robert E. Howard FoundationYou may not know the name Robert E. Howard, but you probably know his work. His most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture. In hundreds of tales detailing the exploits of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156508810Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 566Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

A "fascinating" memoir-and the inspiration for the movie starring Richard Gere-from the man behind the forged autobiography of Howard Hughes (Time). Novelist Clifford Irving's no-holds-barred account of his faked autobiography of Howard Hughes-one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004876Author Diane MiddlebrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345463425Author Gay TaleseFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of Garcia Marquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life...

"An enthralling, heartening study of a man of unflagging interest in life" Independent"A thoroughly researched biography" New York Review of Books"Provides readers of English with a perfect introduction to the life and works of an outstanding writer, one...

The diaries of Clairmont are, so far as is known, the last of the major documents of the Shelley-Byron circle to be published. Only the writings of the Shelleys themselves surpass hers in importance for those interested in the careers of the poets and...

In the spring of 1944, Ernest Hemingway travelled to London and then to France to cover the Second World War for Colliers Magazine. He had resisted this kind of journalism for the early period of the war but now threw himself into the thick of events. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040812Author Jules RenardFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807071335Author Donald HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

This edition celebrates the centenary of Williams's birth. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-1998) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for the first time, making full use of Williams's private and unpublished papers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619022812Author Walter MurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

The author chronicles her efforts to regain her health after having suffered a stroke at the age of seventy-three, describes her self-proclaimed life of solitude, and offers keen observations on the natural world surrounding her.About the AuthorMay...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307476586Author Vladimir NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618492428Author Lois AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 433Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940906010Author Brenda MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ovenbird BooksPublisher Ovenbird BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In Letters of Introduction Kevin Jackson invents a new genre, the Alphabet Essay. Always inventive, scholarly and sometimes zany, Jackson approaches ten writers and two 'themes', building an alphabet around each: 'A is for' to 'Z is for'. The alphabet...

Jean-Paul Sartre is an undisputed giant of twentieth-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism combined with his creative and artistic flair have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so...

Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and...

Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist is an invaluable biography of an important if somewhat neglected figure in British cultural and political life,whose significance has been overshadowed by that of his wife, Virginia Woolf. His vital role in her life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839013355Author Arthur MizenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

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 9780062248589Author Natasha TretheweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

In this fourth edition of his celebrated study of Faulkner, Irving Howe analyzes all of the great author's works, emphasizing the themes that run throughout the novels and stories. "The scheme of my book is simple," Mr. Howe writes. "First, I have tried...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328532381Author Emily MidorikawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...