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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... -
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism by Meredith L. Goldsmith 9780813062815
Booksplease Price: £71.93Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, was also a transnational... -
Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 9780813012537
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.59This volume collects, for the first time, the twenty-three published short stories of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Scribner's printed Rawlings's first short story,... -
Twelve Classics of Christmas by Various 9781665977661
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.54Count down to the holidays with this collection of twelve of the most famous Christmas stories in this cozy anthology.Usher in the holidays with this collection of twelve classic short stories and... -
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains: A Guidebook by Georgann Eubanks
Booksplease Price: £33.98This guidebook is the first of three regional volumes that invite residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading literature from our state's finest writers. Organized... -
In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems by Josephine Jacobsen
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Collected poetry from the 1995 National Book Award finalist.Collected poetry from the 1995 National Book Award finalist.About the AuthorJosephine Jacobsen has published seven books of poetry, two of... -
Dog Stories Diana Secker Tesdell 9781841596068
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull... -
Great American Dog Stories: Lyons Press Classic by Nancy Butler
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.89Dogs serve us, adore us, entertain us, work for and with us, but most of all they warm our hearts. An homage to our canine companions, Great American Dog Stories presents a collection of enduring... -
Ordinary Genius by Thomas Fox Averill 9780803210684
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.30Falling under the spell of these short stories by O. Henry Award-winning author Thomas Fox Averill, a reader might well wonder: What in the world is ordinary? If there really are "just plain... -
Midtown Manhattan Through Time by Richard R. Panchyk 9781635000092
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.57The concept of New York City's "Midtown" has evolved a great deal since the first settlers arrived in the early seventeenth century. The center of town moved steadily north over the following... -
Twelve Classics of Christmas by Various 9781665977654
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.85Count down to the holidays with this collection of twelve of the most famous Christmas stories in this cozy anthology.Usher in the holidays with this collection of twelve classic short stories and... -
Uncertain Endings: Literature's Greatest Unsolved Mystery Stories by Otto Penzler 9781933648859
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £19.54The most intriguing riddle mysteries in literary history, including tales from Bradbury, Dahl, Huxley, O. Henry, and Twain Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this... -
A Timeless Christmas: A Collection of Classic Stories and Poems by Louisa May Alcott
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Delight in the most wonderful time of the year with a collection of heartwarming and heartfelt Christmas classics in this beautiful, giftable Christmas collection.In this beautifully packaged... -
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Fearless Jones: Fearless Jones 1 by Walter Mosley 9780753818374 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £1.90From the author of the Easy Rawlins series comes a new crimebuster - Fearless JonesFearless Jones is a gritty, noirish thriller set in 1950s' Los Angeles. When sultry Elana Love walks into... -
The Search for Water: A Human History Virginia Mendoza 9781805332930
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61Virginia Mendoza's first memories are of drought. She grew up in La Mancha, Spain, the driest region in Europe. Her parents, grandparents, and almost every word, tool, and tradition of her homeland... -
Yellow: Stories by Don Lee 9780393323085
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.47As the Los Angeles Times noted in its profile of the author, "few writers have mined the [genre of ethnic literature] as shrewdly or transcended its limits quite so stunningly as Don Lee." Harking... -
Classic Dog Stories by Various
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62From the grit of a frontier man's dog, from pampered lapdog to wayward mongrel, from faithful guard dog to strong willed pet they're all here in Classic Dog Stories - the perfect gift for dog lovers... -
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 9780141188003
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An iconic novel of the American West - a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the pastLyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western... -
The Crazy Hunter by Kay Boyle 9780811212335
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.61"I think my Crazy Hunter is the best thing I've ever done," Kay Boyle wrote to her sister Joan in 1939, two weeks after she had finished writing it. Twenty years later she wrote to a friend, it... -
American Ghost Stories Brett Riley 9781804172391
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Settling in for a night of spine-chilling entertainment? Here's a gripping collection of classic American ghost tales by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe ('The Masque of the Red Death'), Francis Bret... -
About the Size of it by Thomas M. Disch 9780856463914
Booksplease Price: £12.90Tom Disch's first collection of poems for ten years presents a dazzling variety show of inventive wit. His serious gift for humour permeates poems by turn lyric and narrative, satirical, rebellious,... -
Many Seconds into the Future: Ten Stories by John J. Clayton 9780896728592
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.75The stories in John J. Clayton's newest collection are luminous, expressing a struggle to see growth and meaning in life as much as possible. Nearly all focus on family, and the characters, most of... -
The Seasons of Women: An Anthology by Gloria Norris 9780393038606
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £40.50This collection of work by contemporary American women writers celebrates the passions, joys, losses, courage, quests, and wisdom of women through all the seasons of their lives. The unusually broad... -
Fearless Jones: Fearless Jones 1 by Walter Mosley 9780753818374
Booksplease Price: £20.70From the author of the Easy Rawlins series comes a new crimebuster - Fearless JonesFearless Jones is a gritty, noirish thriller set in 1950s' Los Angeles. When sultry Elana Love walks into... -
The New Life by Tom Crewe 9781668000847
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668000847Author Tom CreweFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon &... -
Great American Cowboy Stories: Lyons Press Classics by Michael Mccoy 9781493042104
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Roping a buffalo, running off cattle rustlers, sitting out a winter storm in a cave--adventures like these were all part of everyday life for the cowboy. They're depicted here in stories that have... -
Wedding Stories Diana Secker Tesdell 9781841596235
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal Party," Joy Williams's... -
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook by Georgann Eubanks 9780807859797
Booksplease Price: £34.26Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct... -
Rose Gold: Easy Rawlins 13 by Walter Mosley 9781780227856
Booksplease Price: £18.18When four armed policemen turn up at Easy Rawlins's door, he thinks he's in trouble. He is. They want him to find Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a millionaire arms dealer. And Easy can't afford... -
McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers by Harold S. Wilson 9780691620862
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £45.51McClure's was the leading muckraking journal among the many which flourished at the turn of the century. Both a literary and political magazine, It introduced exciting new writers to the American... -
Round About the Christmas Tree: A Miscellany of Festive Stories by Becky Brown
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.31Round About the Christmas Tree is the perfect Christmas gift for booklovers, as all facets of the festive season are represented here in one gorgeous volume. Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £3.39WINNER OF THE 2016 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable,... -
I and Claudie by Dillon Anderson 9780896724297
Booksplease Price: £12.27I and Claudie is a delightful and captivating novel about a couple of bungling but good-hearted con men who (barely) make their way across Texas over a two-year period in the 1930s. Their adventures,... -
PWP Landscape Architecture: Building Ideas by John Dixon Hunt 9781935935643
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £23.85John Dixon Hunt introduces PWP Landscape Architecture: Building Ideas with a discussion of how we read landscapes and, hence, how they are designed with the reader/client in mind and the historical... -
Third Class Relics: A Novel Elizabeth Genovise 9781680033113
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12Forty-one-year-old Abra, the narrator of Third Class Relics, gathers with her brother and cousins for an uncomfortable dinner the night after her father's wake. No one speaks of the one missing... -
Hello to the Cannibals: A Novel by Richard Bausch 9780060930806
Booksplease Price: £11.78At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th-century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading... -
Understanding Lorrie Moore by Alison Kelly 9781570038235
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This is the first book-length critical approach to the fiction of the award-winning author of ""Birds of America"". ""Understanding Lorrie Moore"" is a comprehensive companion to the works of this... -
Classic Railway Stories Harriet Sanders 9781035054954
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62In Victorian England the expansion of railways changed history. Landscapes and cities were transformed and, for the first time, people travelled for miles at unimaginable speeds. It's no wonder that... -
Dengue Boy Michel Nieva 9781805220589
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'An incandescent imagination' Valeria Luiselli The year is 2272. New York and Buenos Aires were submerged years ago and the Patagonian archipelagos are the only habitable lands on Earth. Here,... -
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and...