Ralph Ellison 
Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison [EPUB ebook] 

"If I May" by A. A. Milne is a collection of witty essays offering humorous observations and insightful reflections on everyday life. As a master of British wit and literary criticism, …

An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern hi …

First Published in 1968. Sir Richard Steele »s plays and major periodicals have been reprinted in modern times. But the miscellaneous tracts and pamphlets, which in his own day in the eighteenth …

From the forbidden fruit of the Old Testament to the numerous laws broken at Francois Mitterand »s final meal, In the Devil »s Garden is a mouth-watering history of food taboos from around the world …

Galen, the personal physician of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, wrote what was long regarded as the definitive guide to a healthy diet, and profoundly influenced medical thought for centuries. Based on …

In An Island Odyssey Hamish Haswell-Smith casts off in his forty-one-foot sloop Jandara, armed with his sketch pad and a route map of a journey first taken by Martin Martin in 1703. Haswell-Smith …

First published in 1978.This book surveys the history of the Press as a whole in relation to the development of society – beginning with the introduction of the art of printing into England in …

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The …

An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey was the final book written by Richard Brautigan before his death in 1984 and lay unpublished for sixteen years.Originally written in the 160 pages of a …