Literary Figures

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1. This is a Nobel caliber author on the verge of winning that exact prize 2. An unadulterated non-Western look at established Western poetic figures 3. Can also be incorporated in the classroom in creative writing, world literature and Asian literature...

Sentiment and Celebrity tells the story of a man the New York Times once called "the most talked-about author in America." A widely admired, if controversial, master of the sentimental appeal, poet and "magazinist" Nathaniel Parker...

The letters in this volume describe the most remarkable years in the life of one of the most eminent Victorians - the years during which Tennyson published In Memoriam , was married, and became Poet Laureate. His own letters are supported and illuminated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972542Author Carlos FuentesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914463Author Philip NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch PublishingWeight(grams) 286g

A critical discussion of Pound's poetry.Book InformationISBN 9780712651196Author Hugh KennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint PimlicoPublisher VintageWeight(grams) 598g

Things to Come is the 1936 release of London Films, produced from the 1935 "film story" by H.G. Wells, the text of the present work. The book includes more than 100 illustrations, most of them publicity stills that are all the more relevant because...

The life and work of the renowned folklorist and writer Katharine Briggs. Book InformationISBN 9780718897482Author Hilda R. Ellis DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Lutterworth PressPublisher James Clarke & Co Ltd

From her eleventh year to the month of her death at age 55, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. She never intended for them to be published, but the insights they provide into her remarkable life are invaluable. Alcott grew up in a genteel but...

Emblems of Conduct is the simple, moving memoir of the Depression-era youth in Atlanta of novelist Donald Windham. When the author was six, his father left him, his brother, and his mother. Windham's recollections contrast the emotional weather of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268008826Author Edward L. ShaughnessyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

This work, first published in Germany, is a historical biography of Theodor Fontane, a major German novelist of the late nineteenth century. Through his study of Fontane, Craig presents his perceptions of nineteenth-century German, and in particular...

Siegfried Sassoon is the greatest and most famous of all British war poets. Established as a writer of some merit before the Great War broke out, his near-suicidal acts of courage and defiance in the face of enemy fire earned him the Military Cross - and...

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A definitive new biography of James Fenimore Cooper, early nineteenth century master of American popular fiction American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) has been credited with inventing and popularizing a wide variety of genre fiction,...

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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), has long been notorious as one of the most entertaining, extravagant and scandalous members of Charles II's court. He was also the most brilliant, witty and insightful satirist and lyric poet of his time,...

This is a domestic biography of the Thackeray family, placing the writer in the context of his home life. The story continues long after his death, to trace the later lives of his two daughters, Anne Isabella and Harriet Marian, and their marriages. His...

Graham Robb tells the complicated story of this colossal life with authority and sympathy. . . . Unquestionably, a magnificent biography.--Washington Square Press. of photos.Book InformationISBN 9780393318999Author G. RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994726209Author Brian HassettFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Gets Things Done PublishingPublisher Gets Things Done PublishingWeight(grams) 603g

Charmian Kittredge London (1871-1955) was the epitome of a modern woman. Free-spirited and adventurous, she defied modern expectations of femininity. Today she is best known as the wife of the famous American author Jack London, yet she was a literary...

Devoted wife and mother. Acclaimed novelist, illustrator, and interpreter of the American West. At a time when society expected women to concentrate on family and hearth, Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) published twelve novels, four short story...

Historian Lonn Taylor built a career as a curator in history museums, including the Smithsonian Institution. In retirement he wrote weekly columns on the people and places of Texas, signed the 'Rambling Boy,' that were distributed widely in print and on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806153513Author Gary ScharnhorstFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 349g

Always at the centre of any artistic and cultural excitement, the Irish writer George Moore enjoyed a sixty-year literary career of prolific writing, challenging friendships in Paris, London and Dublin, and relationships - though not marriage - with some...

Novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya is a crucial cultural figure in contemporary Russia, garnering both literary awards and best-seller status. Engaging with the past to combat the creeping authoritarianism of the Putin era, she has become the latest in a long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994418449Author Paul MonkFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Echo BooksWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993204562Author Kathleen JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Book MillPublisher Book MillWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992869694Author Stuart HolroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Obscuriosity PressPublisher Obscuriosity PressWeight(grams) 140g

In the first full-length psychoanalytic biography of Oscar Wilde, Melissa Knox explores the link between little-known childhood events and figures in his life and his psychological development to explain both Wilde's creativity and his self-destructive...

'The silence of Barbara Synge' provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed 'Fool of the family' (2000), a biography of the playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Taking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (nee Synge) in 1767 as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985439491Author David P. GontarFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter...

Dr Seuss: American Icon celebrates one of the most influential authors and artists of the 20th century: Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known as 'Dr Seuss'. Dr Seuss's ascendance from children's author to American icon confirms that his cultural significance...

The distinguished poet and critic argues for the abiding relevance of a great literary mind of the twentieth century Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674422643Author Van Akin BurdFormat HardbackPage Count 756Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1225g