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Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away... -
The Art of Teaching by Jay Parini 9780195169690
Booksplease Price: $22.34Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials,... -
The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini 9780060935566
Booksplease Price: $13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935566Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint -
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets famed Argentinian... -
The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Herman had often walked these streets, eyeing the forest of tall ships, their blackened strakes handsomely curved, masts like crosses, empty of sails . . .1841. A young Herman Melville is yet to... -
Why Poetry Matters by Jay Parini 9780300151466
Booksplease Price: $19.17A brief, passionate book about the nature of poetry and its use in the world Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a... -
Conversations with Jay Parini by Michael Lackey 9781496830784
Booksplease Price: $35.42Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he... -
Why Poetry Matters by Jay Parini 9780300144567
Booksplease Price: $55.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300144567Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Damascus Road: A Novel of Saint Paul by Jay Parini
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386205Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Conversations with Jay Parini by Professor Michael Lackey 9781628460254
Booksplease Price: $128.26Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he... -
The Norton Book of American Autobiography by Jay Parini 9780393046779
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $36.88From Mary Rowlandson's story of her capture by Indians in the mid-seventeenth century to Mary Paik Lee's story of being a pioneer Korean woman in America at the beginning of the twentieth century,... -
Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain by Jay Parini 9780231072083
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $118.37Gore Vidal, known for such best-sellers as The City and the Pillar, Burr, Lincoln, and Myra Breckinridge, is a household name. The controversial Vidal ran for Congress in 1960, and set sparks flying... -
The Passages of H.M.: A Novel of Herman Melville by Jay Parini 9780307386199
Booksplease Price: $23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386199Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint -
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy by Jay Parini 9780141191195
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.621910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite,... -
One Matchless Time: A Life Of William Faulkner by Jay Parini 9780060935559
Booksplease Price: $16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935559Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint -
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini 9780307386182
RRP: $22.34Booksplease Price: $18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386182Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Axinn Professor of English Jay Parini 9780345805836
Booksplease Price: $25.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345805836Author Axinn Professor of English Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPag -
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year by Axinn Professor of English Jay Parini 9780307386151
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386151Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
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Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini 9780349139401 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.26An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of... -
Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost by Robert Frost
RRP: $23.16Booksplease Price: $15.62A 2018 Notable Poetry Book for Children (National Council of Teachers of English)Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost is a collection specially curated for young readers which won't just be read, but... -
Writers and Their Teachers by Dale Salwak
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $22.20By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M... -
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania by Marjorie Maddox 9780271027210
Booksplease Price: $45.92Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state's history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through... -
The Remarkable Courtship of General Tom Thumb: A Novel by Nicholas Rinaldi 9781476727332
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $15.29An irresistible novel that "charts a harrowing tour through the Civil War" (Connecticut Post) and chronicles the life of Tom Thumb-the tiny man who became, in his time, America's most famous... -
Benjamin's Crossing by Freeze 9780525562757
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562757Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
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Tom Shields Too by Tom Shields 9781851585045 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.23This is the second collection of "The Herald" Diary's compendium of jokes, anecdotes and arcane observations of life as it is lived in the 1990s, which make up the author's search for the... -
Signs and Wonders by Alix Ohlin
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.76'Signs and Wonders' documents a couple's divorce after twenty-six years of marriage; in 'Robbing the Cradle', a teacher desperate to conceive resorts to the most extreme measures imaginable; and 'The... -
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 9781847497550
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the... -
In the Image: A Novel by Dara Horn 9780393325263
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.19In the Image is an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers "a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God." ... -
Crossing Customs: International Students Write on U.S. College Life and Culture by Jay Davis 9780815333951
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $39.14In this collection of essays, 13 foreign exchange students write their compelling stories detailing their experiences studying at Dartmouth College. They not only convey their own joys and sorrows,... -
Crossing Customs: International Students Write on U.S. College Life and Culture by Jay Davis
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $117.36In this collection of essays, 13 foreign exchange students write their compelling stories detailing their experiences studying at Dartmouth College. They not only convey their own joys and sorrows,... -
Even So: New and Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems by Gary Young 9781935210337
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44"I was struck by the wisdom of this work, a quiet wisdom that inheres in images so fully imagined that one can never forget them. The language has been so thoroughly purified that truth becomes, in... -
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 9781847496447
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge... -
The Saving Graces of America's Green Jeremiad by John Gatta 9781793624055
Booksplease Price: $104.14American environmental literature characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But conservation-minded authors have often been moved to dramatize diverse,... -
Robert Frost in Context by Mark Richardson 9781107022881
Booksplease Price: $126.11This new critical volume offers a fresh, multifaceted assessment of Robert Frost's life and works. Nearly every aspect of the poet's career is treated: his interest in poetics and style; his role as... -
John Updike Remembered: Friends, Family and Colleagues Reflect on the Writer and the Man Jack A. De Bellis 9781476667065
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27Who was John Updike? Fifty-three commentators have much to tell us. They reveal Updike through anecdote, observation, and insight. Their memories reveal Updike the high school prankster, the golfer,... -
Dangerous Water: A Biography Of The Boy Who Became Mark Twain by Ron Powers 9780306810862
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06While Mark Twain remains one of our most quintessentially American writers, the actual boyhood experiences that fueled his most enduring literature remained largely unexplored,until now. Twain's... -
A High Calling: Or, Where Do You Get Your Ideas From? John Greening 9781804471494
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.54Sharing what he's learnt during half a century's creative work, John Greening gives us an insight into the life of a poet, playwright, editor, reviewer, teacher and performer. Eminently readable,... -
Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art by David Mikics 9780393246872
RRP: $47.09Booksplease Price: $41.23David Mikics has been hailed by Harold Bloom as one of our finest literary critics. In this fresh and revealing book, he examines Saul Bellow's work through the real-life relationships and... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure... -
Conversations with Joanna Scott by Michael Lackey 9781496829337
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America's leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful...