John Updike 
Hugging the Shore [EPUB ebook] 

“An honest, compelling and important account, and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security“ CHRIS PACKHAM Why are so many animals facing extinc …

"The Future of the Women’s Movement" by Helena M. Swanwick is a thought-provoking essay advocating feminism, women’s rights, and social change. Swanwick, a prominent figure in the suffrage …

"Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be" by Annie Besant is a thought-provoking nonfiction essay offering social commentary on marriage, relationships, and societal norms. Besan …

George Orwell is acclaimed as one of English literature“s great essayists. Yet, while many are considered classics, as a body of work his essays have been neglected. Peter Marks provides the first s …

The prizewinning author of The Innocents examines the relationships among fact, fiction, fictionalization, and appropriation in this thought-provoking work. “In all creative writing, the question of …

Rare and previously unpublished essays and letters showcasing “Durrell’s wit, elegance, philosophy, joie de vivre and flaming intelligence” (The Irish Times). “The proverb says that whoever sees the …

Iceberg Slim“s last published novel is perhaps his greatest. Death Wish, written in Slim“s typically hard-hitting and highly compulsive prose, tells the story of Chicago“s Mafia and the power stru …

Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a …

First Published in 2005. This is the classic translation of the Chinese military masterpiece; it preserves the character and nuances of the Chinese original. The inspiration of Mao Tse Tung and count …

In these new essays leading European and North American scholars of medieval medicine focus on manuscripts and their transmission and demonstrate how medievalists in all disciplines can profit by stu …