• Rok vydání 2011

One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Here is the first full…

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

The first full-scale biography of the poet and playwright James Thomson for forty years, including a full critical analysis…

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

• Rok vydání 2022

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

• Rok vydání 2009

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

\nFrank Ramsey was a brilliant Cambridge philosopher, mathematician, and economist who died in 1930 at 26 having made…

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

\nA portrait of the Arab enlightenment and its key figures, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The Genius of Their Age, S. Frederick…

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

• Rok vydání 2023

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

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

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

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

\nWoman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of…

This cultural biography of the nineteenth-century ballet master Marius Petipa - creator of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake…

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

J. L. Austin was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, but also an intelligence officer in the…

\nDrawing on newly uncovered archives, The Only Wonderful Things offers a groundbreaking look at American novelist Willa…

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

Drawing on published and unpublished interviews with Wendy Carlos and with other people in her life and career, this full…

\nEbenezer Howard founded the Garden City movement, and he continues to be cited by planners and theorists. Ebenezer Howard:…

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…