Literary Figures

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671028503Author Susan CheeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.Publisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 352g

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Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore - the smell and touch of books, getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, the silent community of readers - sharing his passion for books and interweaving through the whole a fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949738124Author Michael FrizellFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm)...

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Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall's From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places-and the loss to us if there are no such connections. A typically...

This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759321Author Wallace StegnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 258gDimensions(mm) 205mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 1983.Book InformationISBN 9780553272932Author Richard RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Adult Nonfiction) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781400066117Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982151775Author Eudora WeltyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957241381Author Matt WingettFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Life is AmazingPublisher Life is AmazingWeight(grams) 594g

"A self-portrait devastating in its honesty...written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions."-Donald KeeneGossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an unnamed noblewoman in Tenth-century Japan-the same...

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 1997. Commended for Idaho Library Association Book Award 1996.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930523985Author Maria Isabel BarrenoFormat PaperbackPage Count 327Imprint Readers InternationalPublisher Readers International

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Judah Halevi (ca 1085-1141), the best-known and most beloved of premodern Hebrew poets, abandoned his home and family in Spain and spent the last year of his life traveling to the Land of Israel, where he hoped to die amid its sacred ruins. The events of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062356178Author Jay KirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm...

Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem "Die kind" (The Child) at the opening of South Africa's first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994. Though Jonker was already a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918736444Author John J McAleerFormat PaperbackPage Count 668Imprint James A. Rock & Company PublishersPublisher James A. Rock & Company...

'I, the poet William Yeats, | With old mill boards and sea-green slates, | And smithy work from the Gort forge, | Restored this tower for my wife George; | And may these characters remain | When all is ruin once again.' With this lovely six-line poem, W...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910691304Author Oscar 'Zeta' AcostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Tangerine PressPublisher Tangerine Press

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Treating Frances Burney (1752-1840) with the seriousness usually reserved for later novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Margaret Anne Doody combines biographical narrative with informed literary criticism as she analyzes not only...

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Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Meyers' fresh insights into Lawrence's life illuminate Lawrence's working-class...

Claude McKay (1889-1948) was one of the most prolific and sophisticated African American writers of the early twentieth century. A Jamaican-born author of poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction, McKay has often been associated with the "New Negro"...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345942Author Mabel Dodge LuhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759765Author Bennett CerfFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983884293Author Marquis de SadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sun Vision PressPublisher Sun Vision PressWeight(grams) 269g

The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such works of American fiction as ""Reflections in a Golden Eye"" and ""The Ballad of the Sad Cafe"", Carson McCullers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977658Author Sarah MangusoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101910511Author Ngugi Wa Thiong'oFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156508827Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2000 and New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780345371034Author Judith ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage...