Literary Figures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533823Author Gordon BowkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 744g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369391933Author Stan GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316445214Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 140g

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Fellows's first book for the Press, Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest, is one of our all-time and ongoing bestsellers and is the third bestseller at InsightOut Book Club. In A Passion to Preserve, Fellows expands upon the art of oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156935807Author Julia BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 134mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156508506Author Valerie EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 145mm *...

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THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR D. H. LAWRENCE Addresses the whole of D. H. Lawrence’s life and writing career—integrating biography, critical analysis, and recent scholarship in a single volume The Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence is a focused exploration of...

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This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was...

Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845-1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent many...

Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743-1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia - imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle with Napoleon - and he served three tsars, including Catherine the...

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is the most prominent writer from the African continent and one of the greatest living playwrights in the English language. His plays have been produced by the leading professional and repertory companies and stages in the...

Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle is the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. However, Madeleine L'Engle's accomplishments as a writer spread far...

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A look at Lorca's ambivalent view of his own homosexuality as expressed through his life and his art.Book InformationISBN 9781899791613Author David JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Absolute PressPublisher Absolute PressWeight(grams) 239g

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In Thomas Wolfe Interviewed, 1929-1938, Aldo P. Magi and Richard Walser have brought together twenty-five accounts of Thomas Wolfe talking to the press, ranging from the first interview he gave, a conversation with a student journalist for New York...

In 1927, tired of the literary life of New York City, New Orleans, and Chicago, a famous but aging American writer named Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) -- author of Winesburg, Ohio (1919) and other short stories in which he virtually invented the modern...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805088656Author Rene WeisFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Holt PaperbacksPublisher Holt PaperbacksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Bewilderment often follows when one learns that Mark Twain's best friend of forty years was a minister. That Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918) was also a New Englander with Puritan roots only entrenches the "odd couple" image of Twain and...

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For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. "Writing Was Everything" is a summation of that life, a story of coming of age as a writer and critic that is also a...

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Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was in his life a literary and...

If readers of the twentieth century feel overwhelmed by the proliferation of writing and information, they can find in Samuel Johnson a sympathetic companion. Johnson's career coincided with the rapid expansion of publishing in England-not only in...

Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early Welsh...

"An essential step in Thoreau's recovery of a 'natural life' is to reawaken and expand his awareness of the present moment, not only in the sense of knowing more of the world around him, but of entering into it fully. Admitting in Walden that 'I did not...

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This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and many others who interacted with each other and shaped...

The only biography Henry Miller ever wanted was the one he himself wrote in the brash, life-affirming fictions of The Tropic of Capricorn, The Tropic of Cancer, and The Rosy Crucifixion. But Robert Ferguson’s new biography tells a different tale; for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299183400Author Vanessa CurtisFormat PaperbackImprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction and Anthony Award and Edgar Allen Poe Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780143114338Author Jon LellenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374520663Author Edmund WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 712Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156400572Author Anais NinFormat HardbackPage Count 281Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...