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Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein 9780300158441
Booksplease Price: $27.14A portrait of America's most graceful and elegant male dancer and how he came to represent the essence of style, suavity, and charm Joseph Epstein's Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer's... -
Ambition: The Secret Passion by Joseph Epstein 9780929587189
Booksplease Price: $31.61"Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein. The desire to get ahead no longer evokes the same admiration it once did-indeed, modern novelists seem hardly able to deal with ambition... -
Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins by Joseph Epstein 9780195158120
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.94Part of a series of highly entertaining books on the history of sinning. While each of the other six deadly sins area a guilty pleasure, 'the green-eyed monster', as it is often called, is no fun... -
Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays by Joseph Epstein 9781604191004
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $26.29Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to... -
A Literary Education and Other Essays by Joseph Epstein 9781604190786
Booksplease Price: $38.12Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits by Joseph Epstein 9781604191288
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide by Joseph Epstein 9780061768880
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061768880Author Joseph EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
What it Means: Based on On Being Different by Merle Miller by James Corley 9781350425163
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18They say they've broken into the offices of Harper's Magazine and are staging a sit-in. September 1970, Harper's Magazine publish the article Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity in which... -
52 McGs.: The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Reporter Robert McG. Thomas by Robert McG. Thomas 9781416598275
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.88Among his devoted fans, his pieces were known simply as McGs. With a "genius for illuminating that sometimes ephemeral apogee in people's lives when they prove capable of generating a brightly... -
American Beliefs: What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United by John Harmon McElroy 9781566633147
Booksplease Price: $31.61Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that promote the unity... -
How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.21Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audienceCan jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was... -
The Dadly Virtues: Adventures from the Worst Job You'll Ever Love by Jonathan V. Last 9781599475080
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.22From the all-star cast who brought you The Seven Deadly Virtues comes a book with a look at the good life... or the crazy-stressful-overwhelmed life... of a father. The Dadly Virtues is a... -
Howards End by E. M. Forster 9780141182131
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This Penguin... -
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor Donald J. Robertson 9780300280142
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.86Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy "[Robertson] thoughtfully and readably capture[s] the... -
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.80More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242439
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.33A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by Andre Aciman * Sarah Boxer * Jennifer... -
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.48The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242453
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.24A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by Andre Aciman * Sarah Boxer * Jennifer... -
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Robert B. Heilman: His Life in Letters by Edward Alexander 9780295988665 [USED COPY]
RRP: $210.50Booksplease Price: $2.32Robert Bechtold Heilman was a great literary figure of the twentieth century. This collection of his correspondence includes over 600 exchanges with more than 100 correspondents, among them Saul...