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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the Starz original series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her uniq...

What is love? Why is it central to our happiness and personal growth? How can we find, nurture, express it, and keep it alive? In original essays written fo...

No Fear Shakespeare Gives You The Complete Text Of macbeth On The Left-hand Page, Side-by-side With An Easy-to-understand Translation On The Right. each No...

A parody of the Victorian obsessions with fairies and pressed flowers is presented in the form of a diaryCategories: Literature & Fiction History & ...

Explores The History Of American Film Noir, Focusing On Its Dreamlike, Erotic, Ambivalent, And Cruel Atmosphere, And Setting It In The Social Context Of Mid...

Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the du...

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media―from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonie...

In The Art Of Time In Memoir, Critic, Editor, And Memoirist Sven Birkerts Examines The Human Impulse To Write About The Self. Memoir Is, For Better And Ofte...

Presents a selection of spiritually and morally uplifting literature, organized according to the stages along life's wayCategories: Politics & Social Sc...

A Tour Of Key Historic Sites In America Where Incidents Of Political Violence Have Occurred Reveals Lesser-known Points Of Interest Pertaining To Each And S...

"An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today." ―Daily Express (UK) In Foundation...

For A Duchess With Practical Desires, Falling In Love Is An Inconceivable Part Of Her Plan… As Owner Of The Elysium Club Which Caters To Women’s Fantasi...

The De Doctrina Christiana ("On Christian Teaching") is one of Augustine's most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as...

With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned earl...

Devotional Inspiration from the Lives of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy\The Little Women Devotional offers lovely inspiration that explores the themes of faith, fam...

From the bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, You Are Awesome, and the award-winning, multimillion-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things comes even more of th...

"The greatest writer of historical adventures today." —Washington Post Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell...

Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein’s film theory and in particular his analysis of ...

Orphaned At Birth, Eliza Sommers Is Raised In The British Colony Of Valparaíso, Chile, By The Well-intentioned Victorian Spinster Miss Rose And Her More Ri...

Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outs...

Meet Artist Leonardo da Vinci!Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos,...

April, 1536. Danilo Del Medigo Arrives Incognito In Venice From Istanbul, With Two Assassins From Suleiman The Magnificent's Court Hot On His Trail. Western...

Here is a lovingly assembled, essential A-Z companion to Dorothy Dunnett’s brilliant Lymond Chronicles and the first five novels in the House of Niccolò s...

responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone Recognizes These Traits As Essentials Of Good Character. In Order Fo...

Preeminent Shakespeare Scholar James Shapiro Shows How The Tumultuous Events In England In 1606 Affected Shakespeare And Shaped The Three Great Tragedies He...

The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a ...

michael Anstruther-wetherby Is A Man Destined For Power. Except That Michael, For All His Political Skill And Intelligence, Lacks The Most Important Elemen...

Put dullards and miscreants in their place with more than 150,000 handy mix-and-match insults in the bard's own words. This entertaining insult generator an...

The elusive image of the Holy Grail has haunted the Western imagination for eight centuries. It represents the ideal of an unattainable yet infinitely desi...

From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In...

Little Red Riding Hood (1697) / Charles Perrault -- Little Red Riding Hood (1729) / Robert Samber -- The Story Of Little Red Riding Hood (1796) / Anonymous ...

AN UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, A KING MISUNDERSTOOD BY HISTORY, A LOVE STORY THAT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD In A Rose for the Crown, we meet one of history's allege...

This Is The First Systematic Critique Of Edward Said's Influential Work Orientalism, A Book That For Almost Three Decades Has Received Wide Acclaim In Both ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbindin...

Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led...

Signatures: )(⁸⁻¹ A-2g⁸. Title Vignette; Head- And Tailpieces. Der Kirschbaum. Ein Kindergespräch Im Garten, In Prose: P. [427]-438. Einiges Von Und...

Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-mill...

My Antonia (Collins Classics)Categories: Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction20th Century

France, 1685. Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV’s soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly conver...

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lightho...

A Retelling Of Snow White Set In Renaissance Italy Draws A Link Between The Original Fairy Tale And The Borgia Family's Infamous Practice Of Poisoning Its E...

From The Publisher: Lucio, A Normal Man In A Normal (nosy) City Neighborhood With Normal Problems With His Wife (not The Easiest Person To Get Along With) A...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of k...

Roxane Gay's New York Times bestselling debut collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism—a modern classic from one of the most promin...

Timed to the publication of the author's new illustrated children's book, A Family of Poems, the national bestseller is now available in a specially price...

'Professor Ong has managed to synthesize an incredible amount of thought and at the same time has carried some of his earlier ideas still further. Orality ...

This volume contains the first English translation of Bede's allegorical commentary on the tabernacle of Moses, which he interpreted as a symbolic figure of...

for More Than Four Hundred Years, The Personal  essay Has Been One Of The Richest And Most Vibrant  of All Literary Forms. Distinguished From The  detache...