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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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\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…

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