Literary Figures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156260350Author Anais NinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156272483Author Anais NinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371072844Author James BoswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Hardpress PublishingPublisher Hardpress PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Documenting the connotations of James's phrase intensely family, this text examines the shame-based psychology bred by his parents and its impact on James's literary career. It draws on a collection of James's unpublished correspondence with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035800827Author Syeda Faiqa MazharFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765319623Author William H. PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PL

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156272506Author Anais NinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909040045Author Morgan PatFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint G2 Entertainment LtdPublisher G2 Entertainment LtdDimensions(mm) 158mm * 158mm * 15mm

This new biography reveals the conflicts in both Hardy's professional and personal life and describes a man intimately and dynamically engaged with the worlds of politics, ideas and culture as well as the world of rural Wessex.About the AuthorTim Dolan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930751364Author Thomas FenschFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint New Century BooksPublisher New Century Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930751128Author Thomas FenschFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Sharon's BooksPublisher Sharon's Books

The South has always been one of the most distinctive regions of the United States, with its own set of traditions and a turbulent history. Although often associated with cotton, hearty food, and rich dialects, the South is also noted for its strong...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988180123Author Timothy M LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 792Imprint Timothy M. LeonardPublisher Timothy M. LeonardWeight(grams) 771g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996817769Author Fanny BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint Blue Heron Book WorksPublisher Blue Heron Book WorksWeight(grams) 889g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974261577Author Matthew JosephsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Jorge Pinto BooksPublisher Jorge Pinto BooksWeight(grams) 767g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898754780Author Alfred BarbouFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512121Author Walter O'MearaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476219Author Joan ReardonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A Devil and a Good Woman, Too is the award-winning biography of a remarkably talented, enigmatic southern woman whose fiction about rural African Americans drew on her own emotional traumas and family scandals. A white plantation mistress who vowed to...

"Anyone interested in southern literature should be grateful for the reissue of Joel Chandler Harris.... Bickley has done an admirable job of bringing 'the whole Joel Chandler Harris into view.'"--Southern Literary Journal "Bickley's...

Set in the twilight years of southern aristocracy, The Percys of Mississippi is a biography of a family in whose bloodline ran both a strong commitment to public service and an equally strong but more private dedication to literature. Following four...

American poet and writer John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) possessed an inquiring and spiritual mind. Those qualities came to the fore in Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Lakota holy man Black Elk, for which he is best remembered. Over the course of thirty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802878250Author Don W. KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoDimensions(mm)...

In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction...

Danilo Kis (1935-89) was a Yugoslav novelist, essayist, poet, and translator whose work generated storms of controversy in his homeland but today holds classic status. Kis was championed by prominent literary figures around the world, including Joseph...

Henry Adams sought, late in life, to thwart prospective biographers by writing his own biography. Published soon after his death in 1918, The Education of Henry Adams was rightly greeted as a masterpiece. Not until thirty years later, with the appearance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) 1987.Book InformationISBN 9780449903414Author Donald R. HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 676Imprint...

In this New York Times bestseller, follow the author of The Notebook as he travels the world with his brother learning about faith, loss, connection, and hope. As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with...

Primo Levi wrote books that have been called "the essential works of humankind," including Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining to his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint...

Larry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've just never had a desire to write about any place else." In between those figurative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156508865Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990723752Author Sonya ContrerasFormat PaperbackImprint Bull Head PressPublisher Bull Head PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988553668Author Benjamin DecasseresFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Underworld AmusementsPublisher Underworld AmusementsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985891107Author Charles KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Charles KellyPublisher Charles KellyWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865342118Author Frank M ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 186g

With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, she has known in her life. From her idyllic childhood in small-town Mississippi onward, a questioning spirit...

Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father's house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered an Edison phonograph and boxes of cylinder records from the East, paying for them with an inheritance and...

Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--""all this,"" writes Alberto Rios, ""and things...

Idella Parker's recollections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings are as intimate and frank as their ten years together. This long-awaited memoir, written by the black woman who was cook, housekeeper, and comfort to the famous author from 1940 to 1950, tells two...

This collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's correspondence includes her observations on contemporaries such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Wolfe, and provides an introduction to her life, as well as informative annotations, chronology, and...