Literary companions books

Mario Pei (1901-1978) was a writer, linguist, translator, and academic who wrote more than fifty books and had a...  Read More >>

Juan del Valle Caviedes (1645-1697), also known as Caviedes, was a seventeenth-century Peruvian poet. Daniel R....  Read More >>

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, mathematician, and astrologer. This is the first English...  Read More >>

The annotated text, followed by a listing of principal sources and a selective bibliography, has the dual purpose...  Read More >>

Treats the evolution of that branch of serious French drama whose themes were taken from the national history. The...  Read More >>

Traces social drama in Spain from its beginnings in the works of Moratin, treats those continuing the Moratin tradition,...  Read More >>

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These plays are the most original work in the field in recent years. They constitute a signal contribution to contemporary...  Read More >>

This collection in prose and verse of twenty-seven historical or legendary tales adapted from the Gesta Romanorum...  Read More >>

Rutebeuf was a thirteenth-century French troubadour. This work examines his portrayals of Louis IX, who he considered...  Read More >>

Bernart de Ventadorn was a twelfth-century Catalan poet and troubador. These forty-one poems, filled with nostalgia,...  Read More >>

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This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals,...  Read More >>

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Richard Harter Fogle provides an accurate and rounded discussion of these relatively neglected Melville stories....  Read More >>

Offers a reevaluation and a reinterpretation of Pierre Charron (1541-1603) - in particular La Sagesse - and of the...  Read More >>

In 1253, this collection of fictional tales was translated from Arabic into the language of thirteenth-century Spain....  Read More >>

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Illustrates how the muse of Italian Renaissance literature wandered over Western Europe, inspiring the best of writers,...  Read More >>

In this work, the reader experiences the life of Samuel Pepys and his freinds, great and small, in seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

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This descriptive study of the sentence structure of the French language from 1300 to 1515 bridges the gap between...  Read More >>

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work, the Historical and...  Read More >>

In this definitive work, Donald Fowler Brown corrects many previous misconceptions about the works of Emilia Pardo...  Read More >>