Overview :This collection of essays by leading Byronists explores the development of the myth of Byron and the Byronic from the poet's self-representa... Read More
Overview :This is the first critical edition in transcription with facing English translation of a medieval Sanskrit text that is known in most parts ... Read More
Overview :This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rar... Read More
Overview :"The Vend e Globe is even a greater challenge than climbing Mt. Everest." ...Sen. John Kerry, in U.S. Senate Tribute to Rich Wilson "The Ven... Read More
Overview :Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey as "the very wildest . . . person I have ever known," DorothyWordsworth was neith... Read More
Overview :The award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, the most consummate artist of the twentieth c... Read More
Overview :National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistNew York ... Read More
Overview :While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of ... Read More
Overview :An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle years "Never trust the teller," wrote D. H... Read More
Overview :Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its a... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More
Overview :Ready to do Europe by rail without the guesswork, missed connections, or station stress that ruins travel days? France, Spain & Portugal by ... Read More