Overview :A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes This boo... Read More
Overview :In the twelfth century, Pope Clement III declared: 'The Pope is resolved to be the lord and master of the world's game.' Yet history has pro... Read More
Overview : This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such... Read More
Overview :From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37-c.100), the Jewish ... Read More
Overview :This story of a passionate girl became the movie that catapulted Julie Christie to fame with an Academy Award for Best Actress. Laurence Ha... Read More
Overview :Frederic Raphael, the English novelist, screenwriter, and man of letters, and Joseph Epstein, the American essayist, short-story writer, and... Read More
Overview :"The twelve essays in this volume are not only an introduction to some of the most influential thinkers in human history. They are an invita... Read More