Literary Figures

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005. Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416583356Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912452712Author Eustace Clarence MullinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Omnia Veritas LtdPublisher Omnia Veritas LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345422781Author Anna QuindlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 119gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628725339Author Evelyne Bloch-DanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439183533Author Reynolds PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Eliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England. When she visited their village, her appearance was electrifying. She was an attractive, accomplished French countess with a vivacious personality who...

Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the figure of the hard-boiled detective, from the Continental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist 2012 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9780889226739Author Jane RuleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140074Author Penelope LivelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Neil Schaeffer presents here a wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the "divine Marquis," the enigmatic legend whose name is synonymous with brutal perversion and cruelty. Against a magnificently embroidered backdrop of eighteenth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450756686Author Brian McCathyFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

A Revealing Look at the Mentorship-and Manipulation-of Anais Nin In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anais Nin's West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as Anais's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926229Author Penelope LivelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156508834Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626903Author Wes (Scoop) NiskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811229470Author Mary OppenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing Corporation

The story of Richard Aldington, outstanding Imagist poet and author of the bestselling war novel Death of a Hero (1929), takes place against the backdrop of some of the most turbulent and creative years of the twentieth century. Vivien Whelpton provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979513787Author Mark PolizzottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black Widow PressWeight(grams) 1243g

Few poets have lived as extraordinary and fascinating a life as Hart Crane, the American poet who made his meteoric rise in the late 1920s and then as suddenly flamed out, killing himself at the age of thirty-two and thus turning his life and poetry into...

This miscellany explores the fascinating and enigmatic world of J.R.R. Tolkien, examining his place in literary history, his books and his iconic characters. The reader can explore facts and trivia from Tolkien's life and works, including his early life...

This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French. It analyses the narrative strategies they develop...

Important discoveries in private and public archives have recently brought to light many new letters by Henry Fielding (1707-54) and by his sister, the novelist and classicist Sarah Fielding (1710-68). Published here for the first time is their entire...

The memoirs of Ernest Forssgren (1894-1970), the young Swede who served as Marcel Proust's last valet, provide new insights into Proust's life and death. Previously, Forssgren's memoir has been published only in excerpts, in French, with serious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Whitbread Book of the Year 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780375725531Author Claire TomalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586172244Author Joseph PearceFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 508g

In his fortieth year, Chris Offutt returns to his alma mater, Morehead State University, the only four-year school in the Kentucky hills. He envisions leading the modest life of a teacher and father. Yet present-day reality collides painfully with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900001451Author Dick WakefieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Open Gate PressPublisher Open Gate Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312428501Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212257Author Christina JarvisFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974652757Author Mohammed MrabetFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ron PapandreaPublisher Ron PapandreaWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

At the start of 1987, Primo Levi took part in a remarkable series of conversations about his early life with a friend and fellow writer, Giovanni Tesio. This book is the result of those meetings, originally intended to be the basis for an authorized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380016365Author Donald ZochertFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393339413Author Robert Paul SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440237167Author Homer HickamFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781555976859Author Vikram ChandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Graywolf...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781555976859Author Vikram ChandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Graywolf...

A biography of a long-forgotten but vital American Transcendentalist poet. In September of 1838, a few months after Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his controversial Divinity School address, a twenty-five-year-old tutor and divinity student at Harvard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101907986Author Robert GravesFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585425143Author Erica JongFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...