Literary Figures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316188548Author Mark DeryFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm)...

C. S. Lewis, long renowned for his children's books as well as his Christian apologetics, has been the subject of wide interest since he first stepped-up to the BBC's microphone during the Second World War. Until now, however, the reasons why this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027533Author Antoine de Saint-Exup ryFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Duff Cooper Prize 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780345803412Author Claire HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as ""the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of La Fontaine,"" is being offered for the first time in an English translation. La Fontaine, whose...

The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. LewisDetailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warren's famous brother, C. S. Lewis, and also demonstrates how...

This is a celebrated biography of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), prehaps the greatest lyric poet of this century. Rilke was born in Prague, but his nomadic existence led him through Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy, and France, until his death in...

This is the authoritative biography of writer, poet, and beat generation icon Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), whose novel On the Road catapulted him to the forefront of the literary world and influenced budding writers for generations to come. A legendary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532932Author Daisy HayFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312673710Author Jenny WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

"Bernie Schein is the funniest man alive, or so he has dogmatically maintained during the burdensome decades I have known him. . . . [He is] by turns hysterically funny, wildly neurotic, uniquely sensitive, and heartbreakingly honest."-Pat ConroyPat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Minnesota Book Award (Nonfiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780802833044Author Nancy KoesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 371Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582433813Author Benita EislerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062204578Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909983809Author Menna ElfynFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno Ltd

In this major reassessment, now available in paperback, Richard Gray uses and develops recent theories about the relationship between writing and historical experience, language and social change, to draw a brilliantly detailed portrait of the place and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061443084Author Richard WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The End of San Francisco breaks apart the conventions of memoir to reveal the passions and perils of a life that refuses to conform to the rules of straight or gay normalcy. A budding queer activist escapes to San Francisco, in search of a world more...

This collection of short essays provides a rigorous, rich, collaborative space in which scholars and practitioners debate the value of different methodological approaches to the study of life narratives and explore a diverse range of interdisciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451667226Author Renata AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781035Author James WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425g

Alice in Jamesland, the first biography of Alice Howe Gibbens James-wife of the psychologist and philosopher William James, and sister-in-law of novelist Henry James-was made possible by the rediscovery of hundreds of her letters and papers thought to be...

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...

The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, is now legendary, a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life, imagination, and demise of the writer responsible for one of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536534Author Ginger StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531209Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

There are few writers about whom it can be said that they write just like they speak, but Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) is clearly one of them. In 1958, Kerouac was a struggling writer trying to create a new literary aesthetic based on the rhythms of human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449906613Author Katherine FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249g

A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The aim is to present a holistic vision of this complex poet, promoting his literary geniality in order to better...

Hu Feng, the 'counterrevolutionary' leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party's prison system. But back in the Party's early days, he was one of its best known literary theoreticians and critics-at least...

Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. "Brammer's is a new and major talent, big in scope, big in its promise of even better things to come," wrote A. C...

An unabashedly personal and partisan critical biography of the great British experimentalist of the 1960s.About the AuthorRobert Buckeye is author of five books of fiction, including Still Lives, a novel about the Kent State shootings, and Fade, a novel...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988917088Author Paul HerronFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Sky Blue PressPublisher Sky Blue PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505868Author Tony HillermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Joanna Cotler BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140094527Author William S. BurroughsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531100Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156508841Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) emerges in most accounts of his life by biographers and critics as a mysterious and sensational action figure, a hapless pawn of circumstance, or a pseudonymous cipher. Constance Brown Kuriyama's new biography reconstructs...