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Studies in Biography by Daniel Aaron
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $21.68The eleven essays that make up this volume point to some of the new directions biography and biographical criticism have taken in recent years. Among the subjects treated are the responsibilities of... -
Fountain Valley by Daniel Aaron Gibb 9780738547459
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $21.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738547459Author Daniel Aaron GibbFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Fountain Valley by Daniel Aaron Gibb 9781531629021
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $26.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War by Daniel Aaron 9780817350024
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $38.34Here, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers - major and minor - who treated the Civil War in their works. The author seeks to understand why this devastating and defining... -
Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life by Daniel Aaron Silver
Booksplease Price: $42.05Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ... -
THE AMERICANIST 9780472115778
Booksplease Price: $50.72"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... -
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern... -
Introducing Don DeLillo by Frank Lentricchia
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America's most important contemporary novelists, turn to Introducing... -
Floyd Dell: The Life and Times of an American Rebel by Douglas Clayton 9781566635196
Booksplease Price: $20.91The first full-length biography of the celebrated novelist, critic, editor (of The Masses), poet, and playwright who was both central to radical culture in the early 20th century and profoundly... -
Henry Adams: Selected Letters by Henry Adams 9780674387577
RRP: $91.53Booksplease Price: $75.10Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams, his letters-more intimate and... -
The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: The Actual and the Apocryphal by Evans Harrington 9781604733945
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94In Michael Millgate's essay he writes that ""To see the places where an author lived and walked, and typed; to see what he daily saw, smell what he smelled; experience the resources of his native... -
The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession by Arthur Crew Inman 9780674454453
RRP: $121.20Booksplease Price: $100.18Between 1919 and his death by suicide in 1963, Arthur Crew Inman wrote what is surely one of the fullest diaries ever kept by any American. Convinced that his bid for immortality required complete... -
George Santayana: A Biography John Rodden 9780765805034
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.65From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel,... -
Longfellow Redux by Christoph Irmscher 9780252075865
Booksplease Price: $31.33The time has come to take another look at Longfellow, America's most popular poet. Christoph Irmscher overturns the modern prejudice against Longfellow as the mere purveyor of literary comfort food... -
'The Real War Will Never Get in the Books': Selections from Writers During the Civil War by Louis P. Masur 9780195098372
Booksplease Price: $34.33Drawing on a wide range of material, including diaries, letters, and essays, Masur captures the reactions, as the war was waged, of writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph...