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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: £29.32For 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: £44.79Babbitts 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: £45.23Western 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: £74.27The 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... -
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Sims 9780143105664
Booksplease Price: £12.72Collected here for the first time is the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present - Arsene Lupin and A.J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle,... -
Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture by Robert McParland 9780810895003
Booksplease Price: £33.84Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century-including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner-first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors... -
Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture by Robert McParland 9781442247086
Booksplease Price: £42.78Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century-including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner-first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors... -
On Literature, Culture, and Religion: Irving Babbitt Irving Babbitt 9781412804998
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.79Irving 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: £113.99Contemporary 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: £35.53Contemporary 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... -
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... -
Men of Destiny by Walter Lippmann
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37A 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: £10.53Paul 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 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... -
Paul Bunyan by James Stevens 9781513283463
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.43Paul 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... -
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 9780520361171
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89Spokesmen, 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... -
Spokesmen by T.K. Whipple 9780520315105
Booksplease Price: £36.48Spokesmen, 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... -
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Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s by Simone Weil Davis 9780822324119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £9.00In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry... -
Living Up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s by Simone Weil Davis 9780822324461
Booksplease Price: £33.65In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry... -
Romance to the Rescue by Denis Mackail 9781513133003
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Romance 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 Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class by Fred Siegel 9781594037955
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.24What we think of as liberalism today--the top and bottom coalition we associate with President Obama--began not with Progressivism or the new deal, but rather in the wake of the post-WWI... -
The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell 9781513295800
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.97The Cords of Vanity (1920) is a comic romance novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where the laws of chivalry and honor continue to hold sway in postbellum... -
Gallantry by James Branch Cabell 9781513295732
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74Gallantry (1922) is a collection of comic fantasy tales by James Branch Cabell. Set in a fictionalized version of 18th century England, Gallantry is a relative outlier among Cabell's body of work,... -
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... -
The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell 9781513295749
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.71A Certain Hour (1922) is a collection of stories by James Branch Cabell. Recreating the lives of some of history's most celebrated poets, A Certain Hour is a relative outlier among Cabell's body of... -
The Line of Love by James Branch Cabell 9781513295725
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.20The Line of Love (1913) is a collection of comic fantasy tales by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly swineherd can rise to be Count of Poictesme, The... -
Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship by James Branch Cabell 9781513295718
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.65Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship (1920) is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly swineherd can rise to be Count of Poictesme,... -
The Getting of Wisdom Henry Handel Richardson 9781513133935
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60The 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 Eagle's Shadow by James Branch Cabell 9781513267616
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.65The Eagle's Shadow (1904) is the debut novel of James Branch Cabell, a master of fantasy fiction and an underrated figure of twentieth-century American literature. The novel is significant for being... -
Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances by James Branch Cabell 9781513295701
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances (1921) is a comic fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly swineherd can rise to be Count of... -
The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment by James Branch Cabell 9781513295794
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.71The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment (1923) is a novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly swineherd can rise to be Count of Poictesme, The... -
The Cream of the Jest by James Branch Cabell 9781513295787
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.87The 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... -
Young Lonigan by James T. Farrell 9780142180075
RRP: £13.35Booksplease Price: £11.04The first volume of James T. Farrell's remarkable Studs Lonigan trilogyAn American classic in the vein of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the first book of James T. Farrell's powerful Studs... -
The Financier by Theodore Dreiser 9781513135410
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.79The 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... -
Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America by Kimberly Harper 9781682262597
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.22Swindler. Murderer. Scoundrel. Robert Boatright was one of Middle America's greatest confidence men. Although little remembered today, his story provides a rare glimpse into America's criminal past... -
The Titan by Theodore Dreiser 9781513135427
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.69The Titan (1914) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The second installment of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, The Financier has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of...