Literary Figures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609496074Author Christopher P SemtnerFormat PaperbackImprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 218g

2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Rebecca Harding Davis is best known for her gritty short story ""Life in the Iron-Mills,"" set in her native Wheeling, West Virginia. Far less is known of her later career among elite social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646792795Author Oscar WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773600598Author Sarah Chauncey WoolseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Cactus ClassicsPublisher Cactus ClassicsWeight(grams) 553g

"Hemingway and Lindsay carry the Hemingway traditions of hunting, family, and storytelling into the new millennium." -KIRKUS Fifteen years after her father's death, Hilary Hemingway receives a curious inheritance: an audio-cassette of Les, her...

In 1924 DuBose Heyward (1885-1940) was a businessman absorbed in his Charleston heritage. One year later he was the world-famous author of Porgy, the first major southern novel to portray blacks without condescension. Just a decade later George Gershwin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498085304Author Cardinal John Henry NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 594g

Often more disturbing than entertaining, James Ellroy is an author who never shies away from the ugly or repellent. Eminent crime fiction scholar Peter Wolfe examines how Ellroy transcends the genres of pulp and neo-noir fiction to write stories that are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803238Author Simon CallowFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385479318Author Rosemary MahoneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 241gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781396321917Author George Charles WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 259g

This is a critical edition of the essays that J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) wrote in English but did not include in Letters from an American Farmer. First published in 1782, Letters from an American Farmer is an eighteenth-century cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959402217Author Henry JamesFormat PaperbackImprint Reprint PublishingPublisher Reprint PublishingWeight(grams) 481g

Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice. Di Prima and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) edited The Floating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494166632Author Goldwin SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646793501Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 140g

This work looks closely at the relationship between William Faulkner and Memphis novelist Joan Williams. Their story is significant not only in its depth but also in the years of their primary involvement, 1949-1953 - a period over which Faulkner won...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390294190Author Thomas de QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498031448Author Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512820751Author Louise Merwin YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

Compiled from personal letters, interviews with Tom's wife Rene and recorded interviews, this book captures the remarkable and largely unknown efforts by Tom Atkinson to help Indonesia gain independence from the Dutch and to become established as a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679779186Author Belinda JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499861242Author Wilbur A SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint ZaffrePublisher ZaffreWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878998354Author Artemis SmithFormat PaperbackImprint Savant Garde Workshop'Publisher Savant Garde Workshop'Weight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596058248Author Rudyard KiplingFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498189354Author Thomas JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498122580Author Emily SymondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 816g

From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adèle Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love – and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later. It’s 1863. The daughter of the most famous writer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498064828Author Albert Bigelow PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 531g

Christy Brown was born with cerebral palsy and severe physical disability. He grew up to become a brilliantly imaginative and sensitive writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature.This autobiography, published in 1954 when he was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937543037Author Dawn RaffelFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jaded Ibis PressPublisher Jaded Ibis PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735221451Author Christopher BenfeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

J.-K. Huysmans (1848-1907) now stands firmly recognized as a significant and influential writer, often hailed as a pioneer of modernism. While his novel A rebours(Against Nature) remains infamous for its reclusive protagonist retreating into a realm of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939530066Author Jean HuetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Circling RiversPublisher Circling RiversWeight(grams) 621g

The Times Food Book of the Year. A soul-searching memoir for foodies everywhere. Let award-winning food writer Clare Finney take you on a passionate exploration of food and love. From family feasts to comfort food, first dates to office cake; how does...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498021197Author Charles GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 413g

A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov's epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936363711Author Jeffrey MarksFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Crippen & Landru PublishersPublisher Crippen & Landru PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639366712Author Karolina WatrobaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954044685Author Michael FrizellFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm)...