Literary Figures

All her life, May Sarton carried on a voluminous private correspondence-with family, friends, and lovers. From the beginning, as these remarkable letters show, the essence of an extraordinary human being was present, her gifts ready to unfurl and mature...

Sherwood Anderson, an important American novelist and short-story writer of the early twentieth century, is probably best known for his novel ""Winesburg, Ohio"". His realistic and nonformulaic writing style would influence the next...

A biography of the noted Chilean poet.Book InformationISBN 9780292781245Author Volodia TeitelboimFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams) 777g

Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and Spartacus,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156286510Author P N FurbankFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 939gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 46mm

'A beautiful, deeply philosophical book about reading as a form of existential consolation' Literary Review'Acute and tender . . . alive with discovery and desire' Observer'A meditation, by turns glorious and aching, on what it means to be a woman and to...

Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America's leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their...

Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) currently reigns in the literary world as one of the most critically decorated and popular authors of the last fifty years. Perhaps best known as the writer of the Harvey, Eisner, and World Fantasy-award-winning DC/Vertigo series,...

The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316572828Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997018035Author Carmina EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Margaret Carmina WidmarkPublisher Margaret Carmina WidmarkWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997370652Author Glenn DromgooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Texasstartrading.comPublisher Texasstartrading.comWeight(grams) 140g

Loren Eiseley challenges us to this day with his uneasy interpretation of humanity's place in the world. The haunting melancholy that pervades much of Eiseley's work grew out of a loveless childhood in which he spent much time alone in the natural world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684864495Author Frank McCourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 903g

John and George Keats-Man of Genius and Man of Power, to use John's words-embodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. George's 1818 move to the western frontier of the United States, an imaginative leap across four thousand miles onto...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544310353Author Anais NinFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Harvest BooksPublisher Harvest BooksWeight(grams) 621g

Renowned environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reveals the Wallace Stegner behind the literary legacy - a generous teacher, conservationist, and man whose early landscapes shaped his life and character. Fradkin chronicles Stegner's formative years,...

Iris: A Life of Iris Murdoch is already regarded as the standard, authorized biography of one of the most important female novelists and thinkers of the twentieth century. Three years after her death, Iris Murdoch has begun to fascinate a whole new...

William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him-both the man and his work-offer intimate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312200053Author MR Ian WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156508872Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition is a collection of anecdotal reflections that relate many of the experiences that shaped Barry Gifford as a writer. Representative of Gifford's body of work, this volume is divided...

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley (b. 1952) has...

This powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about one of the greatest poets of our time weaves an unforgettable drama of friendship, grace, and courage, through long years of heartbreak and hunger.Book InformationISBN 9781557283092Author Patricia...

The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996947879Author Tiffany BascomFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Trudy BarnesPublisher Trudy BarnesWeight(grams) 299g

This volume brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century's master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world...

Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert and Hal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999002988Author Miranda WhitecrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Archer TrentPublisher Archer TrentWeight(grams) 154g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984810048Author Jean PauleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Jean Pauley AuthorPublisher Jean Pauley AuthorWeight(grams) 630g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974261560Author Matthew JosephsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Jorge Pinto BooksPublisher Jorge Pinto BooksWeight(grams) 739g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968272855Author Michele CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Boomer Publications, IncorporatedPublisher Boomer Publications,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930751111Author Thomas FenschFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Sharon's BooksPublisher Sharon's BooksWeight(grams) 469g

In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe. Louisa had already made her mark as a writer; May was on the verge of a respected art career. Little Women Abroad gathers a generous selection of...

Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he devoted himself to the creation of a black literary cosmos, one in which black literature and culture were...

A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies - from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse...

George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley...

The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of American and world literature. However, some details on...

The interviews in this collection will convince the reader that Jerzy Kosinski's public persona was one of the greatest creations. Few authors were ever more adept at press interviews. For Kosinski, the author of nine novels, including The Painted Bird,...