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Wright Morris Territory: A Treasury of Work by Wright Morris 9780803236585
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Best known for his novels, including the National Book Award winners The Field of Vision and Plains Song, Nebraska-born author Wright Morris has long been regarded as one of America's most gifted... -
In Orbit by Wright Morris
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award."In the space of one day, Jubal E... -
The World in the Attic by Wright Morris 9780803257290
Booksplease Price: £28.77Wright Morris's ""Nebraska Trilogy"" (1946-49) embodies his attempt to capture and come to terms with his past. According to David Madden, in his study Wright Morris, ""In The Inhabitants [a picture... -
The Works of Love by Wright Morris 9780803257672
Booksplease Price: £22.36"When I was a boy of eight in the Platte Valley of Nebraska, my father made the first of the many moves that would prove to be of interest to a future writer of fiction. They were east to Chicago,... -
One Day by Wright Morris 9780803258419
Booksplease Price: £30.04"Laying sure hands on the daily is Wright Morris's forte. What the rest of us may have accepted too casually he sets upon with his own highly specialized focus. In this novel, more than ever, the... -
The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work --which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the... -
A Life by Wright Morris 9780803281066
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering remains of this late sister's house and the... -
The Deep Sleep by Wright Morris 9780803258235
Booksplease Price: £25.16"'Judge' Howard Potter, one of the most respected and influential citizens of a suburban town outside of Philadelphia, lies dead after a long and wearying illness. He is survived by the five people... -
War Games by Wright Morris 9780803258785
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Written twenty years before it was first published in 1972, War Games features both black and charcoal-gray humor, whose characters and events are as unpredictable as they are absorbing--a book, in... -
My Uncle Dudley by Wright Morris 9780803258044
Booksplease Price: £28.83My Uncle Dudley is Wright Morris's first novel, originally published in 1942.About the AuthorOne of the most distinguished American authors, Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books including The... -
Man and Boy by Wright Morris 9780803257870
Booksplease Price: £28.92"I have read and admired all of Morris's books, and there is no doubt in my mind that he is one of the most truly original of contemporary writers. His originality, his absolutely individual way of... -
The Huge Season by Wright Morris 9780803258051
Booksplease Price: £24.97In this novel, set in 1952 but intermingling the past and present, the protagonist reviews the effects of the Jazz Age on himself and a friend, recalling their exploits in college, in Paris, and in... -
Fire Sermon by Wright Morris 9780803281042
Booksplease Price: £28.59"A radiant expression of the art [Wright Morris] has developed through thirty years and fourteen earlier novels. Although it is anything but preachy it will stick in the minds of the congregation for... -
The Man Who was There by Wright Morris 9780803258136
Booksplease Price: £29.02When it first appeared in 1945, this novel disconcerted a good many critics: Agee Ward, "the man who was there" of the title, ostensibly is the man who is not there--a member of the armed forces in... -
Cause for Wonder by Wright Morris 9780803258853
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award.Book InformationISBN... -
Love Among the Cannibals by Wright Morris 9780803258426
Booksplease Price: £29.07Speaking of this 1957 novel, the author has said it ended his obsession with the reconstruction of the immediate past and moved him into the contemporary scene. The narrator, Earl Horter, is a lyric... -
What a Way to Go by Wright Morris 9780803258624
Booksplease Price: £25.16The reader of this rollicking novel, first published in 1962, accompanies forty-seven-year-old Professor Arnold Soby (regarded by his girl students as safe and acceptable, but also good fun) on a... -
Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris 9780803282766
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.11Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this... -
Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris 9780803282674
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.59Novel of three generations of women on the Nebraska plainsNovel of three generations of women on the Nebraska plainsAbout the AuthorWright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The... -
New Ground: Western American Narrative and the Literary Canon by A.Carl Bredahl 9780807856413
Booksplease Price: £47.90New Ground is a compelling argument for the expansion of the American literary canon. Carl Bredahl maintains that the critical tradition too often neglects the literature of the American Midwest and... -
James Agee in Context: New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical Essays by Michael A. Lofaro
Booksplease Price: £63.11It's difficult to overestimate the impact of the many new works by James Agee uncovered and published in the last twenty years. These previously unknown primary works have, in turn, encouraged a... -
The Home Place by Dorothy Thomas 9780803282520
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers. This... -
The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction by Diane Dufva Quantic 9780803288508
Booksplease Price: £20.76The Great Plains has long been fertile ground for literature. The Nature of the Place is a comprehensive study of novels and stories by such Plains writers as Willa Cather, Wright Morris, Mari... -
Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature by Andy Oler 9780807170786
Booksplease Price: £45.06The Midwest holds two conflicting positions in the American cultural imagination, both of which rob the region of its distinctiveness. Often, it is seen as the ""heartland,"" a pastoral ideal... -
The Dixie Limited: Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence by M. Thomas Inge 9781496803382
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.86Flannery O'Connor once noted, ""The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on... -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9780063354289
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78About the AuthorMark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature of American fiction, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The... -
The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon by Brian Stonehill
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's... -
Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet by Peter M. Shane 9780415948654
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and... -
Light Writing and Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography by Timothy Dow Adams 9780807847923
Booksplease Price: £51.24On the surface, the use of photography in autobiography appears to have a straightforward purpose: to illustrate and corroborate the text. But in the wake of poststructuralism, the role of... -
The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska by Alan Boye 9780803259683
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76The second edition of The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska represents a major enlargement and revision of the first edition, making this the most comprehensive guide to the state ever written. The... -
In Rooms of Memory: Essays by Hilary Masters 9780803240025
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.07This mature, exquisite collection of personal essays by Hilary Masters offers a rare pleasure. Here are meditations and reflections distilled in fine prose from a long and varied life-musings that,... -
The Photography Reader: History and Theory Liz Wells (University of Plymouth, UK) 9780415749183
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £46.43Following on from its hugely successful first edition, The Photography Reader: History and Theory provides deeper insight into the critical discussions around photography - its production, its uses... -
The Golden West: Fifty Years of Bison Books by Alicia Christensen 9780803234888
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.41In the fifty years since its inception in 1961, the Bison Books imprint at the University of Nebraska Press has published some of the best historical, literary, and original western literature. The... -
Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters, 1935-1955 by Weldon Kees 9780803278080
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.10Before he vanished in the fog of San Francisco, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. What remains is a body of work and a large collection of... -
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad 9780521824071
Booksplease Price: £118.38Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological torment... -
This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains by David Stark 9780231165228
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32The numbers of farms and farmers on the Great Plains are dwindling. Disappearing even faster are the farm places-the houses, barns, and outbuildings that made the rural landscape a place of... -
A Great Plains Reader by Diane Dufva Quantic
Booksplease Price: £41.84The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described, celebrated, and... -
Godine at 50: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher David R. Godine 9781567926767
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £29.98"The story of a book-making life."-New York Times "The lovely colors, tasteful art and elegant typography are an abiding reminder to a hurried world that some gifts of grace endure. That promise is...