Originally published in 1933, this book provides a concise discussion regarding the nature of value and value theories,…

First published in 1926, as the second edition of a 1916 original, this book was created for 'Latin beginners who have spent…

• Rok vydání 1993

The introduction to this 1993 volume places James's fiction in the context of the family that conditioned his concern with…

New Essays on Native Son provides original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright. Following an…

Arthur Way (1847-1930) was a respected Classicist, and translated many ancient texts into English. This book, originally…

Originally published in 1931, this book provides a concise discussion regarding the life and works of Christina Rossetti.…

Originally published in 1875, this is the first publication of a previously missing fragment of some seventy verses from the…

Ocean of Trade offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years…

This volume addresses the established reputation of The Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American autobiography…

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this…

Originally published in 1919, this book presents a guide to advanced Latin syntax. The text was written in 'an attempt to…

• Rok vydání 1990

This book is a 1990 account of the ways in which young Aborigines were at a disadvantage before laws and legislation had…

Originally published in 1926, this book presents a concise analysis of the nature of irony in English literature, with…

Originally published in 1917, this book contains a selection from the works of the renowned critic and essayist William…

In this well-informed study, Scottish feminist and scholar Charlotte Carmichael Stopes attempts to determine if Francis…

Stephen Heath shows how Madame Bovary with its questioning of the value of marriage and the role of women captures and…

An accessible introduction to the life and work of Thomas Jefferson. Contributors include leading literary scholars and…

This handy guide places The Stranger, one of the seminal texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature in…

Originally published in 1929, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between Dutch and English…

This book explains how burden of proof and presumption work as powerful devices in argumentation, based on studying many…

Why do any human beings choose to be socialists? Why has socialist politics proved in practice so frequently disappointing?…

First published in 1925, this book presents a well-known collection of anecdotes by Samuel Johnson. The anecdotes were…

Originally published in 1929, this book was written to provide an account of the German circle in Copenhagen during the…

What are the core values of liberalism and how can they best be promoted? The issues examined include the influence of major…

Originally published in 1929, this book is comprised of a series of papers written for the Royal Society of Literature. The…

Originally published in 1908 as part of the English Literature for Schools series, this book contains the 1922 reprint of…

First published in 1924, this volume in the Cambridge Elementary Classics series was created to provide graded reading…

First published in 1908 and reprinted many times subsequently, this book contains the ancient Greek text of Sophocles'…

This is an accessible guide to BartĂłk and his music. Wide-ranging in coverage, it sets out the cultural and political…

Originally published in 1882, this book by highly esteemed Syriac scholar William Wright is an English translation of the…

• Rok vydání 1975

This 1975 book amplifies the record of Malcolm Lowry's early life. It considers the critical point of this knowledge, and…

This volume brings together nine essays on King Lear by distinguished scholars, all of which were first published in…

Gottlieb Schumacher (1857-1925) was an American-born German civil engineer and archaeologist who was influential in the…

First published in 1909, this book presents a discussion of the educational process in relation to modern languages. The…

This biography of Shelley (1792-1822), the Romantic poet also known for his defence of atheism, was written by John…

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In this engaging 2004 introduction, Vincent Sherry combines a close reading of Ulysses with critical arguments. This book is…

This 1995 book provides a concise account of the main features of French economic development between 1750 and 1914. Written…

• Rok vydání 1997

This 1997 book presents in readable, non-technical language the findings of scholarship on one important aspect of 'who…

Spanning centuries of ground-breaking science, bitter rivalry, outright fraud, and self-delusion, this book is a compelling…

Robert Willis (1800-75), professor of natural and experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge, was especially…

This 1927 book by British scientist and agriculturalist William Cecil Dampier-Whetham provides a discussion of agricultural…

The text of this inaugural lecture proposes that the newly established A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture is a…

• Rok vydání 1795

Letters for Literary Ladies (1795) is the first publication of Maria Edgeworth, one of bestselling authors of the early…

Written for students of speech-language pathology, this workbook is an invaluable self-learning tool which allows students…

Five essays focus on various aspects of the novel from its ideology within the context of the Cold War and its portrait of a…

Originally published in 1926, this book examines the extent to which interest in German literature in England grew…

This timely book by internationally regarded scholar of ethics, Michael Boylan, focuses on the history, application and…

Originally published in 1926, this book was written to provide an 'account of some of the ethnological conditions of the…