Essays, Feuilleton, Literaire kritiek

The history of the angelicall virgin glorious S.Clare (Douai 1635) is a translation by ”Sister Magdalen” of a work by the Franciscan priest François Hendricq, Vie admirable de madame S. Claire fon …

A translation of a classic 11th-century Persian text on behaviour and conduct in government, written between 1086 and 1091 by Nizam al-Mulk, who for over 30 years was Chief Minister of two successive …

A Room of One”s Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways. Based on the text of a talk given by Virginia Woolf at an all-female Cambridge college, …

”A cat is only ITSELF, ” Bukowski wrote.”Representative of the strong forces of life that won”t let go”A raw and tenderly funny look at the relationship between cats and humans from one of the w …

Ernest Hemingway’s most important writings on war—perhaps the author’s greatest subject—are brought together in a single volume, introduced and edited by his grandson, Seán Hemingway, with a foreword …

Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. …

Jung began his career as a psychiatrist in 1900, when he was twenty five as an assistant in the cantonal mental hospital and clinic of the University of Zurich. It was only six years later, after he …

‘We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols” power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race’ …

The forests of India are not only home to a wide variety of animals and birds, but they also teem with committed conservationists, naturalists and nature lovers. And after having spent many years wit …

In this headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women”s desire on its head. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioural scientists, …