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Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer 'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times 'The Dutch... -
White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel by Catherine Jurca 9780691057354
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies... -
Soviet Attitudes Toward American Writing by Deming Brown 9780691651811
RRP: £142.00Booksplease Price: £112.92Treats publication and critical reception of U.S. writing, especially fiction, in Russia in the first four decades of the Soviet regime, analyzing it in terms of aesthetic and political theory. ... -
Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Audre Hanneman 9780691622859
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.63This bibliography of Hemingway's writings and related materials includes, for the first time, all of his books, pamphlets, stories, articles, newspaper contributions, juvenilia, library holdings of... -
Ernest Hemingway. Supplement to Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Audre Hanneman 9780691617787
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £48.02This supplementary bibliography describes work by and about Ernest Hemingway published between 1966 and 1973. Part One lists publications by Hemingway, including six recent books, new editions of... -
Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive by David W. Levy 9780691612690
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.20Here is the first full-length biography of Herbert Croly (1869-1930), one of the major American social thinkers of the twentieth century. David W. Levy explains the origins and impact of Croly's... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds Frank Costigliola 9780691270746
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930 by Lynn Dumenil
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.84As the United States moved from Victorian values to those of modern consumerism, the religious component of Freemasonry was increasingly displaced by a secular ideology of service (like that of... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola 9780691165400
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America by Marc Egnal 9781621909040
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the... -
A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America by Marc Egnal 9781621908678
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the... -
American Voices, Volume 2: Readings in History and Literature by Robert D. Marcus
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.91Eighteen full and lengthy selections from Margaret Leech, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edward Bellamy, Frederick Jackson Turner, Andy Adams, Jane Addams, Lincoln Steffens, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Upton... -
Hook, Lyin' & Sinker: A Tangle of Fishing Humor by Brian R. Peterson 9781493074631
Booksplease Price: £12.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBrian Peterson is the author of The Great Duck Misunderstanding, a huge collection of outdoor humor and... -
Discovering Fiction An Introduction Student's Book: A Reader of North American Short Stories by Judith Kay 9781107638020
Booksplease Price: £36.39Discovering Fiction features short stories that enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. Discovering Fiction, Second Edition, An Introduction Student's Book... -
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand 9780452281547
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.89In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art... -
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people... -
Literary Cincinnati: The Missing Chapter by Dale Patrick Brown 9780821419694
Booksplease Price: £25.25The history of Cincinnati runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets. In addition to hosting the nation's first professional baseball team, the Tall Stacks river... -
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... -
Dorothy Thompson and German Writers in Defense of Democracy by Karina von Tippelskirch 9783631675274
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £40.33Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this book investigates work and life of Dorothy Thompson, the eminent journalist who in 1928 married American novelist Sinclair Lewis. In the following... -
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... -
White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925 by 9780820336978
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £33.01At the turn of the twentieth century, representations of "white collar" Americans-the "middle" social strata H. L. Mencken ridiculed as boobus Americanus-took on an ever-greater... -
The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews by Rebecca West 9780860685043
Booksplease Price: £20.70'The Strange Necessity',one of the twelve essays collected here and first published in 1928, anchors West's quest to understand why art matters and how aesthetics of every caliber can not only... -
God Behind the Screen: Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion by Janko Andrijasevic
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51This 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: £60.98From 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... -
Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals by Peter Viereck
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79In 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... -
Forty Years of Friendship: Letters, 1921-1960 by Dorothy Thompson 9780826206466
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.45The friendship between Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane began in 1920 in the publicity office of the American Red Cross in Paris and continued until Thompson's death in 1961. Although both women... -
Christian Nation: A Novel by Frederic C. Rich 9780393240115
Booksplease Price: £19.78So 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... -
Dope-Darling: A Story of Cocaine by David Garnett 9781513212227
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.91Dope-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... -
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... -
Literary Capital: A Washington Reader by Christopher Sten 9780820338361
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £27.53Washington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an object of interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and poets. Literary Capital offers a compelling portrait of the city through... -
100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture by Timothy B. Spears 9780300070668
Booksplease Price: £33.01"Kiss the children and sister Minnie for me. And tell her whatever she does, never to marry a traveling man, they are the most unhappy men on earth."-E. Barton Martin to his wife, Julia, April 6,... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.95The 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:... -
Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land Steven J Michels 9781666938906
Booksplease Price: £89.41What have depictions of the working class in popular culture added to our understanding of the professional lives of Americans? Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land offers twelve... -
The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington 9780252071133
Booksplease Price: £23.25A 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... -
The Fire in the Flint by Walter Francis White 9781513282435
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.14The 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 Fire in the Flint by Walter Francis White 9781513135816
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01The 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 Collected Short Works, 1920-1954 by Bess Streeter Aldrich
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.37During the first half of the twentieth century, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most highly paid and widely read American authors of her time. Among the most noteworthy of frontier writers,... -
The Jazz Age: A Historical Exploration of Literature by Linda de Roche 9781610696678
Booksplease Price: £56.97This intriguing study examines the truth behind the myths and misconceptions that defined the Roaring Twenties, as portrayed through the popular literary works of the time. This one-stop reference to... -
The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America: Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.24This 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...