More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine,…

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\nSuccess is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of…

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Originally published in French: Paris: Gallimard, 1958.…

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Cast in the form of a dialogue, this title treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human…

Cast in the form of a dialogue, this title treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human…

Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps America's most famous writer. Yet he remains misunderstood, his works easily confused with the…

Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical…

\nAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely…

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\nIn the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience…

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A superb new translation of Kafka's classic stories, authoritatively annotated and beautifully illustrated.Selected Stories…

\nThe Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism’s and Christianity’s sacred books. Why these…

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Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A…

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Guides readers to a deeper appreciation of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood as they experience love, romance, and heartbreak.…

Acclaimed historian and museum curator Richard Rabinowitz tells the story of his immigrant Jewish family through the…

\nRaymond Geuss is a critic of liberalism, a politics so pervasive in the West that it goes unnoticed. His attention…

\nToday John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic…

\nSuccess is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of…

\nGeorge Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered…

\nZhou Enlai, China’s first premier, is overshadowed by Mao, but Zhou’s influence in his own time and since has been vast.…

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The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205--184BCE, are the earliest Latin…

Quintus Ennius (239 169), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman…

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The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c 205-184 BCE, are the earliest…

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Seneca (ca. AD 4-65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots…

Seneca (ca. AD 4-65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots…

Quintus Ennius (239 169), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman…

The letters of Pliny the Younger (c. 61 c. 112 CE), a polished social document of his times, include descriptions of the…

Fronto (c. 100 176 CE), a much admired orator and rhetorician, was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of…

This richly illustrated annotated edition brings unmatched vitality to Austen's most passionate and introspective love…

\nPaolo Giovio\'s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to…

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Provides notes on literary and historical contexts, allusions, and language of Jane Austen's most popular novel Pride and…

After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last…

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\nPerhaps the most accomplished of Austen\'s novels, Emma is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular. Film and…

\nLeon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…

\nLu Xun was China\'s greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation…

\nFrancis Cogliano revisits the relationship between Washington and Jefferson, arguing that their vaunted differences mask…

\nAlexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…