Literary Figures

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702265549Author Patti MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams) 153g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702253560Author Karen LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams) 530g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692907313Author M SarkiFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Rogue Literary SocietyPublisher Rogue Literary SocietyWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674865037Author Professor Harriet Beecher StoweFormat HardbackPage Count 622Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674422599Author Professor John Paul RussoFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 535g

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Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature--arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville in his later years, this is a remarkable and unprecedented account of...

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The correspondence between the poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) and his friend James Strachey, later the primary English translator of the works of Sigmund Freud, appears in print here for the first time. These rich and varied letters - often irreverent,...

In 1764-65 the irrepressible playwright Beaumarchais traveled to Madrid, where he immersed himself in the life and society of the day. Inspired by the places he had seen and the people he had met, Beaumarchais returned home to create "The Barber of...

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hype?...

How does Dostoevsky's fiction illuminate questions that are important to us today? What does the author have to say about memory and invention, the nature of evidence, and why we read? How did his readings of such writers as Rousseau, Maturin, and...

In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming...

A rich trove of letters from Edith Wharton to her governess, written over the course of their long and affectionate friendship An exciting archive came to auction in 2009: the papers and personal effects of Anna Catherine Bahlmann (1849-1916), a...

Members of adoption triangles-adoptees, birthparents, and adopting parents-must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the individual's right to self-discovery...

Biographies of America's greatest humorist abound, but none have charted the overall influence of the key male friendships that profoundly informed his life and work. Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, Mark Twain and Male...

Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson are known as much for their formidable egos as for their contributions to twentieth-century arts. That either could collaborate intimately with anyone is surprising. Yet Stein and Thomson did work together, magnificently...

Mark Twain towered above the American literary landscape. With a worldwide fame greater than that of statesmen, scientists, or entertainers, Twain was in his own words "the most conspicuous man on the planet." Now, in this wonderful recounting...

This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions...

Recent critical studies have emphasized the formal, mystical, and psychological dimensions of Walt Whitman's art, dwelling mainly upon his Emersonian and Transcendental sources. This study is the first book to undertake a detailed analysis of Whitman's...

In this compelling biography, Peter Griffin draws on a wealth of previously unpublished material-including numerous letters and five of Hemingway's early short stories that appear in their entirety-to trace the formative years of one of America's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118732Author John Phillip SantosFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 263g

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In the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America's most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into...

A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon - driven to dry out, not out of a desire to change but mainly through weariness. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember...

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At school, Roald Dahl looked forward most to those special days when the local chocolate company sent every pupil a large box of chocolate bars for testing. Years later he wrote a children's book inspired by the chocolate testing. It was one of the first...

Robert Frost - American Writers 2 was first published in 1959. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501180675Author Patti HartiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250338303Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

An illustrated biography of the cult writer who transformed his alcohol-soaked life into such novels as Post Office and Women, and whose life was portrayed in the film Barfly. It follows his sometimes tragic exploits along the rocky road from obscurity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692431344Author Bernhardt ZalaskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Rhz Development LLCPublisher Rhz Development LLCWeight(grams) 649g

This book provides an introduction by J. H. Stape, St. Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill.Written in 1910 and first privately published in New York in 1916, Frank Harris' "Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions" gained almost instant...

The Bronte sisters, who occupy such an important place in English literature, continue to fascinate us - the passionate intensity of Emily's Wuthering Heights and her poetry, the blend of romance and realism in Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Villette, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871317599Author Oriel MaletFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint M. Evans& Co IncPublisher M Evans & Co, IncWeight(grams) 703g