Literary Figures

Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully illustrated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806142531Author John Joseph MathewsFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

This is the biography of the Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), author of "The Mysteries of Udolpho", the world's first "best seller". The text clarifies Radcliffe's emergence from a Dissenting Unitarian, rather than a...

Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries,...

The late African American novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) is well known both in America and Europe for his moving depictions of black men destroyed by a pervasive racism and for darkly humorous stories of Harlem's underworld. His novels and stories...

"I speak in what others often hear as a strange accent. My past can't be located. I live in Buffalo, New York, an exile from the South. But these aren't Yankee dreams, even though my past seems like a fabrication, a dreamworld in which I'm a paper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985750121Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Sabino Falls PublishingPublisher Sabino Falls PublishingWeight(grams) 362g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558612075Author Estella Conwill MajozoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567922363Author Andrew LownieFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint David R. Godine Publisher IncPublisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc

William Faulkner is Phil Stone's contribution to American literature, once remarked a mutual confidant of the Nobel laureate and the Oxford, Mississippi, attorney. Despite his friendship with the writer for nearly fifty years, Stone is generally regarded...

In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricities parallel their genius and successes. Set against the backdrop...

Hamka's Great Story presents Indonesia through the eyes of an impassioned, popular thinker who believed that Indonesians and Muslims everywhere should embrace the thrilling promises of modern life, and navigate its dangers, with Islam as their compass...

Here, collected in book form for the first time, are the letters written by Mark Twain on the famous Holy Land Excursion of 1867--letters that Twain once said would ruin him if published. Twain, a brash young journalist with one book under his belt, was...

William Faulkner more than any other writer is intimately associated with the South about which he wrote. This book reveals the man and his family and the ways in which southern culture and his own life were wound around one another in his greatest works...

Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and 90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. Ruth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979815683Author Shmuel RozshanskiFormat PaperbackImprint Jewish Storyteller PressPublisher Jewish Storyteller PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984604425Author Chester D CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Night Shadows PressPublisher Night Shadows PressWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997482317Author Robin R CutlerFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint View Tree PressPublisher View Tree PressWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930523961Author Janina KoscialkowskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Readers InternationalPublisher Readers International

The novels of Walker Percy-The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few-have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps,...

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A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi's unique, captivating narrative promises-and delivers. The Other Side of the Tiber brings Italy to life in an entirely new way, treating the peninsula as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973365733Author Vidar HreinssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 610Imprint Benson RanchPublisher Benson RanchWeight(grams) 806g

Trifles - a play exploring what happens when women unite against forces that deny them a voice and identity-has become an international classic, as powerful and relevant today as it was in the summer of 1916, when it was first staged by vacationing...

Billy Collins "puts the 'fun' back in profundity," says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called "hospitable" poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly unprecedented popularity. His work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446529334Author Colin McEnroeFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981822228Author Sally Tippett RainsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Global Book PublishersPublisher Global Book PublishersWeight(grams) 524g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807072592Author Suzanne Strempek SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

A haunting consideration of the extraordinary mind of Saul Bellow's unjustly forgotten friend and literary rival and the extremes of the writing life Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956473486Author Robert Peprah-GyamfiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Perseverance BooksPublisher Perseverance BooksWeight(grams) 392g

Mark Twain has been the subject of violent disagreement among critics. Most of them have believed that he was an "unconscious artist," working by impulse. Mark Twain as a Literary Artist shows that Mark Twain was much more the conscious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982238530Author Dale Wayne SlusserFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Winged Lion Press, LLCPublisher Winged Lion Press, LLCWeight(grams) 244g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674494312Author John HildebidleFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674429772Author John MaynardFormat HardbackPage Count 509Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1007g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674431515Author Hyder Edward RollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 147Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 413g

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Within a few months of C. S. Lewis's death in 1963, certain facts about his life were already being fictionalized and his literary leavings were being contaminated with fakery. Year after year, the fraud has been promoted by public relations and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983313915Author Roland MerulloFormat PaperbackImprint Pfp PublishingPublisher Pfp PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981928494Author William Wallace CookFormat PaperbackImprint Norton Creek PressPublisher Norton Creek PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674335653Author Leon EdelFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 862g