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Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant by Cornelis Van Minnen 9781349532131
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.05Upon his death, Hendrik van Loon was described in The Times obituary as 'one of the most engaging products of the marriage between Holland and the United States'. One of FDR's true and closest... -
Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines by Thomas Boyd
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix... -
God Behind the Screen: Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion by Janko Andrijasevic
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy... -
Power, Prose, and Purse: Law, Literature, and Economic Transformations by Alison LaCroix
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £87.03From Anthony Trollop to Sinclair Lewis, and from Jane Austen to James Joyce and John Steinbeck, many important novels touch on fundamental questions about the role of money in human affairs. These... -
Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film by Polina Kroik 9780367731908
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of... -
Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals by Peter Viereck
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In this classic volume, written at the height of the Cold War, with a new preface of 2006, Peter Viereck, one of the foremost intellectual spokesmen of modern conservatism, examines the differing... -
Christian Nation: A Novel by Frederic C. Rich 9780393240115
Booksplease Price: £19.61So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America's Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a "Christian... -
Harry's Bar: The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark by Arrigo Cipriani 9781956763065
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Now in paperback, the inside story of one of the world's most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemingway.Harry's Bar in Venice has remained one of the world's most storied... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey 9780141041865
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.84The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history:... -
The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington 9780252071133
Booksplease Price: £30.56A familiar midwestern novel in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis, The Turmoil was the best-selling novel of 1915. It is set in a small, quiet city--never named but closely... -
Dope-Darling: A Story of Cocaine by David Garnett 9781513212227
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.93Dope-Darling is a story of sex, drugs, and music set just before the outbreak of the First World War. Claire is the talk of the town when she meets Roy at a London nightclub. Leaving his fiancee... -
The Fire in the Flint by Walter Francis White 9781513135816
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The Fire in the Flint (1924) is a novel by Walter Francis White. Although he is generally recognized for his accomplishments as the longtime leader of the NAACP, White also wrote several novels... -
The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America: Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington's Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism. It shows that the cause of decay is attributed to three sources: stratifying of... -
Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor by Chris Lamb 9780253348067
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £23.60If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense of humor, you might want to consider living somewhere... -
Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor by Chris Lamb 9780253218728
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense of humor, you might want to consider living somewhere... -
Epidemic Disease and Human Understanding: A Historical Analysis of Scientific and Other Writings by Charles De Paolo 9780786425068
Booksplease Price: £30.54For more than three thousand years of recorded history, human beings have struggled to understand the epidemic--the rapid spread of a contagious disease throughout a human population. This book... -
Babbitts and Bohemians from the Great War to the Great Depression by Elizabeth Stevenson
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Babbitts and Bohemians is a fresh and informed account of the 1920s, a decade that seems almost mythical to some. Elizabeth Stevenson finds that the true twenties was a society of contrast. On the... -
American and European Literary Imagination by John McCormick
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Western culture is composed of a subtle and complex mixture of influences: religious, philosophical, linguistic, political, social, and sociological. American culture is a particular strain, but... -
The New England Watch and Ward Society by P.C. Kemeny 9780190844394
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £85.25The New England Watch and Ward Society provides a new window into the history of the Protestant establishment's prominent role in late nineteenth-century public life and its confrontation with... -
On Literature, Culture, and Religion: Irving Babbitt Irving Babbitt 9781412804998
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his... -
New Directions in American Reception Study by Philip Goldstein 9780195320879
Booksplease Price: £119.53Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser... -
New Directions in American Reception Study by Philip Goldstein 9780195320886
Booksplease Price: £37.56Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser... -
Men of Destiny by Walter Lippmann
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63A great editorial commentator of the twentieth century, Walter Lippmann, was a major contributor to the central periodicals and journals of the age, including the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs,... -
Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story Peter Bagge 9781770463417
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.15Peter Bagge returns with a biography of another fascinating twentieth-century trailblazer the writer, feminist, war correspondent, and libertarian Rose Wilder Lane. Following the popularity and... -
Paul Bunyan James Stevens 9781513134185
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Paul Bunyan (1925) is a novel by James Stevens. Written from a lifetime of experience as a logger and historian of the logging industry, Paul Bunyan is a masterful take on one of the defining legends... -
The Atom Station by Halldor Laxness
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country. Narrated by a country girl from the... -
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 9781841594231
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fiftyyears. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of EsperanzaCordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing... -
Understanding John Updike by Frederic Svoboda 9781643360966
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932-2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and... -
Spokesmen by T.K. Whipple 9780520315105
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29Spokesmen, by T. K. Whipple, gathers a series of essays written in the 1920s, a decade when American literature was breaking decisively from academic gentility and provincial puritanism. Whipple... -
Romance to the Rescue by Denis Mackail 9781513133003
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Romance to the Rescue (1921) is a novel by Denis Mackail. Recognized in his time as a leading writer of popular fiction, Mackail was a gifted stylist with a keen sense of social convention and a deep... -
The Best American Book of the 20th Century by Societe realiste 9789491677267
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.10As 'The Best American Book of the 20th Century' travels through the textual materiality of an entire century of mass-produced literature, it suggests intertextual relationships between the narratives... -
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser 9781513135397
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.18Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Controversial for its honest depiction of work, desire, and urban life, Sister Carrie has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a... -
Small-Town Dreams: Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America by John E. Miller
Booksplease Price: £47.35We live these days in a virtual nation of cities and celebrities, dreaming a small-town America rendered ever stranger by purveyors of nostalgia and dark visionaries from Sherwood Anderson to David... -
The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916-1925 by John C. Hennen
Booksplease Price: £35.99Local teachers and ministers extolling the virtues of hard work and loyalty to God and country. Veterans' groups and women's clubs promoting the military fighting radicalism, and equating business... -
The Getting of Wisdom Henry Handel Richardson 9781513133935
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Getting of Wisdom (1910) is a novel by Henry Handel Richardson. Based on her experiences at Melbourne's Presbyterian Ladies' College, The Getting of Wisdom is a coming-of-age novel aimed at a... -
Diversity and Satire: Laughing at Processes of Marginalization by Charisse L'Pree Corbie-Massay 9781119651970
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.21The first textbook to explore diversity by demonstrating how satirical content can advance the discussion and change attitudes Engaging in diversity and promoting inclusion means working to remove... -
The Cream of the Jest by James Branch Cabell 9781513295787
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54The Cream of the Jest (1923) is a novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly pawnbroker can encounter monsters, gods, and devils, The Cream of the... -
The Financier by Theodore Dreiser 9781513135410
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.69The Financier (1912) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The first installment of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, The Financier has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example... -
THE AMERICANIST 9780472115778
Booksplease Price: £39.32"I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is...