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Stories of Ohio by William Dean Howells
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742214Author William Dean HowellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Im -
Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells 9780461207675
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461207675Author William Dean HowellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Im -
A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells 9780371157084
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371157084Author William Dean HowellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Im -
Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells 9780371702734
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371702734Author William Dean HowellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Im -
A Modern Instance William Dean Howells 9780486468877
RRP: $11.38Booksplease Price: $10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486468877Author William Dean HowellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Im -
A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells 9780371118283
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371118283Author William Dean HowellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Im -
Indian Summer: A Library of America Paperback Classic by William Dean Howells
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598531565Author William Dean HowellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Im -
The Rise of Silas Lapham: Nonsuch Classics by William Dean Howells 9781845880415
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $6.71A tale of Boston society and manners, following the fortunes of a self-made man from rural Vermont as he tries to break into the city's sophisticated world of 'old' money.About the AuthorWilliam Dean... -
Pebbles Monochromes & Other Modern Poems: 1891-1916 by William Dean Howells 9780821413180
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $19.64For William Dean Howells, the 1880s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax was more personal and came in the death of his... -
Underworld by Don DeLillo 9781529092097
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side... -
A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist Dr Juliette Wells (Elizabeth Connolly Todd Distinguished Associate Professor, Goucher College, Goucher College, USA) 9781350365506
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.23Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist... -
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Booksplease Price: $13.29The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the... -
The Names by Don DeLillo
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.03Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence... -
Players by Don DeLillo
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.01In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their 'ideal' life is a lingering boredom and quiet... -
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled... -
Family Christmas Treasures: A Celebration of Art and Stories by Kacey Barron 9780789334091
Booksplease Price: $20.07It focuses on the secular aspects of a family Christmas: spending time with loved ones, exchanging gifts, anticipating the arrival of Santa Claus, decorating the tree and home, cooking and feasting,... -
Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland by Hamlin Garland 9780803221604 [USED COPY]
RRP: $75.04Booksplease Price: $7.50Hamlin Garland, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of more than forty books, was a central figure in American literary life for half a century. He was intimately involved with many of the major... -
The Names by Don DeLillo 9780330524865
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Don DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this... -
Olinger Stories by John Updike
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." These stories were originally published in The New Yorker and then in various... -
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity.He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up... -
Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor by Chris Lamb 9780253218728
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense of humor, you might want to consider living somewhere... -
Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland 9780803270589
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a... -
Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground... -
The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master by Henry James
Booksplease Price: $22.45A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, The Daily Henry James is a little book from a great mind. First published with James's approval in 1911 as the... -
Stories of Chicago by George Ade 9780252071430
Booksplease Price: $19.98The stories of George Ade are energetic, detailed, and affectionate slices of the social life of Chicago in the Gay Nineties. Originally appearing in the Chicago Record between 1893 and 1900, they... -
Mao II by Don DeLillo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key... -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9780451532145
Booksplease Price: $8.83Two of Mark Twain's great American novels-together in one volume.THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYERTake a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named... -
Homer And Langley by E. L. Doctorow
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort, their home a mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to... -
The March: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow 9780349119595
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Doctorow's new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major... -
The Silence by Don DeLillo
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09'An apocalyptic novel for our times' - Guardian'Horrifyingly resonant' - ObserverSuperbowl Sunday, 2022. A couple wait in their Manhattan apartment for their final dinner guests to arrive. The game... -
"The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 9780821416549
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's frequently anthologized story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." Most editions have been based... -
The Conjure Stories by Charles W. Chesnutt
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern how Chesnutt experimented with plots and characters and with... -
Henry James: Novels 1901-1902 (LOA #162): The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $33.74This Library of America volume brings together one of Henry James's most unusual experiments and one of his most beloved masterpiecesWriting to his friend William Dean Howells, Henry James... -
Politics of Washing by Polly Coles 9780719808784
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.57This is the story of ordinary life in an extraordinary place. The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there?... -
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt 9780393934144
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt's own family, Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition captures the astonishing moment in American history when a... -
Zero K by Don DeLillo 9781509822843
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled.He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has...