In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got...
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, ...
Любовь к родине, ощущение трагического пульса своего времени, чувство одиночества, неразделенная любовь - вот основные мотивы поэзии Камоэнса, крупнейшего португальского п...
From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and wh...
"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times
The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, so...
This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness....
A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in mode...
The book that established Thomas Carlyle’s reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on...
In A History of Atheism in Britain, David Berman chronicles the thoughts and heritage of atheists in a fascinating study of atheism and its origins in Britain. Reviewing k...
The haunting cry of "Bring out your dead!" by a bell-ringing collector of 17th-century plague victims has filled readers across the centuries with cold terror. The chillin...
Действие романа известного английского прозаика и лирического поэта, знатока античности Роберта Грейвза (1895—1985) относится к одному из наиболее драматических периодов р...
