Robert Lynd 
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This volume, first published in 1987, was the first to examine in depth the religious thought of Colonel Mu“ammar al-Qadhdhafi and its central place in his political, social and economic theories. T …

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of radio plays, nine of which …

First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen“s six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, …

Elizabeth Major was inspired to write Honey on the Rod (1656) as a result of lameness brought on by a bout of fever in her mid-twenties. The experience left her fiercely devoted to her Christian reli …

Here, Jayne L. Warner has created a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey“s leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic …

The English Revolution of 1642-60 produced an explosion of stylistically and ideologically diverse pamphlet literature. The essays collected here focus on the prose of this new revolutionary era, and …

Thomas Cartwright was the leader of the Elizabethan Puritans and his intellectual pre-eminence was widely acknowledged. Standard-bearer of the Prebytero-Puritans against Whitgift, he was held to have …

Reports announcing the death of the book are now rife, but the continued relevance of the ten master writers discussed in this volume is proof to the contrary. Here we come across the dissident Czech …

This volume contains nearly all the criticism that Alexander Coleman wrote for The New Criterion between 1994 and 2003. A specialist in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American literature, Coleman was …

A form of courtesy literature, Mother“s Advice Books were texts written by mothers to instruct their children in religious, educational, and occasionally wordly matters. The three texts included in …