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The Wedding by Dorothy West
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.58With a new introduction by DIANA EVANS'Timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender' Emma Garman, Paris... -
The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932979Author Dorothy WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Feminist Press at The City... -
The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches and Reminiscences by Dorothy West
Booksplease Price: $35.45'A writer of huge compassion and acute observation, and also of dazzling style . . . Her work is more relevant than ever' DIANA EVANSAn incredible collection of writing - both essays and short... -
The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences by Dorothy West 9780385471466
Booksplease Price: $30.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385471466Author Dorothy WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
Dorothy West's Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson 9780813551678
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $49.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930–1950 Dorothy West 9781625349538
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $143.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930–1950 Dorothy West 9781625347053
Booksplease Price: $61.48Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Dorothy West Martha's Vineyard: Stories, Essays and Reminiscences by James Robert Saunders 9780786408924
Booksplease Price: $44.36This book is a compilation of selected stories, essays, and reminiscences that Dorothy West wrote for the Vineyard Gazette from the 1960s to the early 1990s. In these entries, West retraces life on... -
Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930-1950 by Dorothy West 9781558494718
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74Despite her strong associations with Massachusetts - her upbringing in Roxbury, her lifelong connection with Martha's Vineyard, and two novels documenting the Great Migration and the rise and decline... -
Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance by Verner D. Mitchell 9780813551463
Booksplease Price: $68.41Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West led a charmed life in many respects. Born into a distinguished Boston family, she appeared in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, then lived in the Soviet Union with a... -
Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West by Sharon L. Jones 9780313323263
Booksplease Price: $168.54African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance generally fall into three aesthetic categories: the folk, which emphasizes oral traditions, African American English, rural settings, and characters... -
The Wizard of Oz - Ladybird Readers Level 4 by 9780241253793
Booksplease Price: $27.71Ladybird Readers is an ELT graded reader series for children aged 3 -11 learning English as a foreign or second language. The series includes traditional tales, favourite characters, modern stories... -
Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Greg Lawrence 9781250001948
Booksplease Price: $32.55History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the tycoon's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers,... -
Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation by Stephen Knadler 9780472054183
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $54.29Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical... -
The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall by Cookie Woolner 9781469675473
RRP: $154.05Booksplease Price: $125.03Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black "lady lovers"-as women who loved... -
The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall by Cookie Woolner 9781469675480
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black "lady lovers"-as women who loved... -
Death Sentence Mikkel Birkegaard 9781784163167
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32A murder committed on paper, safely within the confines of a novel, is one thing. To see that same crime in the real world, is something else entirely. . . Frank Fons is a very successful crime... -
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 9780241411209
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49A stunningly beautiful hardback edition of the most famous journey in the world.Follow the yellow brick road!Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and... -
This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance by Helene Johnson 9781558495722
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57This volume brings together much of the poetry and a selection of correspondence by an enormously talented but underappreciated poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Cousin of novelist Dorothy West and... -
Zora Neale Hurston by Cheryl R Hopson 9781789147957
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07This book explores the creativity and life of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most published African American woman writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Her life spanned a period of... -
Just Give Me A Cool Drink Of Water 'Fore I Diiie Dr Maya Angelou 9780860682646
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06A marvellous collection of poetry from the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAPoems of... -
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now Dr Maya Angelou 9781860491405
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06Lessons in living from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSA brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAThe woman warrior who is... -
Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.53An inspiring collection of quotations from the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK... -
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence P. Jackson
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $43.00The Indignant Generation is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. The years between... -
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence P. Jackson 9780691141350
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $72.83"The Indignant Generation" is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. The years... -
African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940: Volume 10 by Eve Dunbar 9781108472555
Booksplease Price: $192.54The volume explores 1930s African American writing to examine Black life, culture, and politics to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed the Great Depression's economic impact... -
Depictions of Home in African American Literature by Trudier Harris 9781793649652
Booksplease Price: $65.99In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations... -
Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers' Project: Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era by Sara Rutkowski 9783319852416
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $106.70The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA's Federal Writers' Project (FWP)-a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on... -
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou 9780860687573
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and... -
The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women by Marcy Knopf 9780813519456
Booksplease Price: $68.52In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the art and culture of the Harlem Renaissance. Yet this significant collection is the first definitive edition of Harlem Renaissance stories... -
Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers' Project: Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era by Sara Rutkowski 9783319537764
Booksplease Price: $107.80The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA's Federal Writers' Project (FWP)-a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on... -
In Flaming Letters: Lucia Pitts, Poet of the Six Triple Eight Verner D. Mitchell 9780813954059
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $114.35A treasury of poetry and prose from an unsung trailblazer of Black literature Lucia M. Pitts (1904-1973) was an African American writer and Army veteran whose story has never been told. Her poetry,... -
In Flaming Letters: Lucia Pitts, Poet of the Six Triple Eight Verner D. Mitchell 9780813954066
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12A treasury of poetry and prose from an unsung trailblazer of Black literature Lucia M. Pitts ( 1904-1973) was an African American writer and Army veteran whose story has never been told. Her... -
Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays by Matthew Teutsch 9781496827821
Booksplease Price: $172.77Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Masse, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson... -
Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays by Matthew Teutsch 9781496827838
Booksplease Price: $55.71Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Masse, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson... -
Love and the Fighting Female: A Critical Study of Onscreen Depictions by Allison P. Palumbo 9781476677392
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $29.21The fighting female archetype--a self-reliant woman of great physical prowess--has become increasingly common in action films and on television. However, the progressive female identities of these... -
Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940 by Lorraine Elena Roses 9781625342423
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26In the 1920s and 1930s Boston became a rich and distinctive site of African American artistic production, unfolding at the same time as the Harlem Renaissance and encompassing literature, theater,... -
The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression Robert Dale Parker 9780197785065
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $116.96The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression uncovers a forgotten side of modernism: the literature of unemployment and poverty in the 1930s, particularly fiction and poetry about people... -
And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countee Cullen by Charles Molesworth
Booksplease Price: $58.15While competing with Langston Hughes for the title of "Poet Laureate of Harlem," Countee Cullen (1903-46) crafted poems that became touchstones for American readers, both black and white. Inspired by... -
Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance Jim Haskins 9780471211525
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.59AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes. Here is what you want to know about the...