\nThough well-known to many Whitman scholars, Specimen Days is an underrated \'late\' prose work which chronicles the life…

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), one of the original thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote on religious, psychological, and…

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas on population and political economy have had a profound…

\nJames Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short…

This volume brings together key chapters from Darwin's most important books, including the Journal of Researches on the…

By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only…

Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by…

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\nIn this insightful memoir Lennie Goodings takes the reader behind the scenes at Virago, the feminist press that she has…

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The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one…

Written between 1919 and 1923, this book was the first about the Blasket Islands - a tiny, remote community off the west…

A new and accessible edition of the letters and journals of one of Britain's most famous writers, this collection offers a…

Galileo is aptly known as 'the father of modern science'. But there is much more to him than his well-known discoveries in…

Tied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a…

\nJust a few hundred copies of the 1623 edition of Shakespeare\'s collected plays exist, making it one of the most…

\nThis book, the first ever biography of the father of philosophy, tracks Plato\'s life from his childhood in war-torn…

This is the story of how an educated young man decided that the French Revolution was worth the use of state-sponsored…

\nFrom bestselling biographer Kate Clifford Larson comes the first full portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer and her galvanic part…

\nA remarkable account of the brilliant, troubled mathematician and philosopher Kurt Goedel. From his famous Incompleteness…

Deeply researched and briskly written, this first-ever biography of Eliza Scidmore, the pioneering journalist who fought to…

\nA dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when personal pride…

\nFrom one of the country\'s most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom…

In this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on Nat King Cole, framing him first as a…

The first biography of Elizabeth Wiskemann - historian, journalist, intelligence agent - delving into her lives in 1920s…

\nThe Life and Work of James Bradley: The New Foundations of 18th Century Astronomy is the first major work on the life and…

\nAt the heart of this book are the stories, in their own words, of ordinary people who fell into need and required the help…