Literary Figures

Sarton writes perceptively of how age affects her: the way small things take longer and tire more, what it feels like to endure pain and to be afraid. Other days her energy returns, her spirits lift, and projects abound. Readers both new and old will...

In 1846 Elizabeth Barrett rose from an invalid's bed to elope to Italy with Robert Browning. The secret courtship of the two poets--their long correspondence and their meetings in the shadow of Elizabeth's tyrannical father--has become one of the most...

Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka's death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly acquainted with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries, and letters, `Kafkaesque' has become a byword for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526777614Author Rik WorthFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint White OwlPublisher White OwlWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061774294Author Fernando MoraisFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Aemilia Bassano Lanyer sought public fame as a poet in 1611, at the height of the largely misogynistic reign of James I. This book situates her life and work among those major poets of Elizabethan and Jacobean England with whom she may have had some...

James Salter (1925-2015) has been known throughout his career as a writer's writer, acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, John Banville, and Peter Matthiessen for his lyrical prose, his insightful and daring explorations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781250037985Author Andrew LycettFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint St Martin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585420902Author Martha GellhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873515412Author Richard R. LingemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 659Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

This first biography is now in paperback marking the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nigeria-Biafra War and the anniversary of the death of Christopher Okigbo, the most anthologized modern African poet. Christopher Okigbo, once described as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454434Author Melissa HardieFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

On 3 August 1845, Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready"-and with this, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely "at home", Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was ambivalent towards...

"Definitive. . . . Deeply researched and pondered." "A literary biography of the same caliber as Richard Ellmann's James Joyce." These words of praise from Edmund Morris in the New York Times and Michael Dirda in the Washington Post are but some of the...

This book is intended for students of English literature and history; general readers; visitors to the Lake District.Book InformationISBN 9780198185390Author Dorothy WordsworthFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford...

'I don't want you to rehabilitate me,' Philip Roth said to his only authorised biographer, Blake Bailey. 'Just make me interesting.' Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost ten years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing...

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese...

This is a scholarly monograph devoted to Jane Morris, an icon of Victorian art whose face continues to grace a range of Pre-Raphaelite merchandise. Described by Henry James as a 'dark, silent, medieval woman', Jane Burden Morris has tended to remain a...

Besides being one of America's most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the...

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which Tumult is an autobiographical record. Derived from old papers, notes, jottings, photos, and letters that the...

In the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927-1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list. With a fierce, single-minded devotion to his work, Wright escaped the steel...

From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544310377Author Virginia WoolfFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250799968Author Lucy WorsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Thomas Hardy's greatness as a novelist and poet is universally acknowledged. These letters provide invaluable glimpses into his life, from the years as an unknown architect's assistant in London in the 1860s to the final period of extensive productivity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156531450Author Claude McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 431g

When E.A. (Archie) Markham came to London in 1956 from his native Monserrat, his ambitions were to make it as a writer or pop singer, and at the same time, fulfil family expectations to become a scholar and academic. Unfortunately, the young Archie's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524456Author Elizabeth BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

The evidence of the Christmas debate is presented for you to decide: was Clement C. Moore the actual author of The Night Before Christmas?You know the poem, but do you know its controversy? Inventing Santa Claus presents all the details of the heated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670095001Author Gopi Chand NarangFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India

Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida child and his pet fawn-much less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large...

In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind-but he was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628726565Author Christine WoodsideFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 528gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The story of the overcoat began with a chance meeting - between an obsessive book collector, Jacques Guerin, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Guerin immediately glimpsed the possibility of acquiring the novelist's personal...

In the first major English biography of Honore de Balzac for over fifty years, Graham Robb has produced a compelling portrait of the great French novelist whose powers of creation were matched only by his self-destructive tendencies. As colorful as the...

Hugo was also an editor of the Yale Younger Poets series and a distinguished teacher and master of the personal essay. Now many of his essays have been assembled and arranged by Ripley Hugo, the poet's widow and a writer and teacher, and Lois and James...

During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th? Fascinated by considering the significance of a single day over many years, Wolf began keeping a detailed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478917045Author Malachy McCourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life. Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) launched her career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which...

Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) stands out as one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century. Though primarily known as a children's book writer and illustrator, he did not limit himself to these areas. He saw himself first and...