Literature: history & criticism books

From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic...  Read More >>

A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou.  Read More >>

This unflinching poetry collection follows the author's diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In...  Read More >>

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Some readers simply read books. Others talk back. The Marginalia Fan's Pocket Journal is a guided companion created...  Read More >>

For readers who live between the shelves and the scroll. #Booktok and #Bookstagram have turned reading into a global...  Read More >>

Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell...  Read More >>

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First published in 1975, The English Morality Play is the extended history of the English morality play, its persistence...  Read More >>

First published in 1968, Virgil’s Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin...  Read More >>

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The rearview mirror perspective of a road trip across the American ""open road""  Read More >>

In this highly provocative book, originally published in 1974, Sir George Pickering, former Professor of Medicine,...  Read More >>

Choosing two themes which greatly occupied contemporary writers—the state as an enlarged family, and the family...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between tragedy and the justice that is sought in moral philosophy and the law....  Read More >>

In Creative Characters, originally published in 1991, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl reflects on the long search for an...  Read More >>

Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

The rearview mirror perspective of a road trip across the American ""open road""  Read More >>

Exploring the varied roles of bachelors during the Renaissance  Read More >>

In this book, cultural historian Eliot Borenstein asks what happened when J. K. Rowling's mega-blockbuster, born...  Read More >>

The Research Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell.  Read More >>

On September 29 and 30, 1941, in one of the largest mass murders of the Holocaust, German troops massacred 33,771...  Read More >>

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Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

Poéticas de la invención es una travesía crítica por la imaginación cultural del continente, donde lo indígena,...  Read More >>