Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Portable Emerson [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, …

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 …

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 …

Darkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia, and in Dark Skies, Tiffany Francis-Baker travels around Britain and Europe to learn more about nocturnal landscapes and humanity »s connection t …

The work of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) often provokes bemusement or even hostility; however, he was often referred to as ‘the greatest living poet’ and variants thereof. Oxford Professor of Poetry …

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 …

Power, luck and freedom is a collection of thirteen essays from a leading contemporary political scientist on power, luck, choice, freedom and rights together with a substantial introduction bringing …

 »Deeply moving … A triumph » Justin Webb  »What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising » Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday Ten seconds before my fathe …

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your …

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 …