Percy Bysshe Shelley & Albert S. Cook 
A Defense of Poetry [PDF ebook] 
Edited With Introduction and Notes

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, …

The Arctic is heating up. While China, the US and Russia are militarizing the North pole — sending submarines and ice-breakers — the ice itself continues to recede creating new trade routes and new o …

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 …

History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan’s career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahua …

Variously described as a comedy of manners, a psychological romance, and a type of fabliau, the 13th-century narrative Flamenca is the best medieval romance written in Occitan. Its uniqueness springs …

A valuable piece of intellectual history, readable in its own terms, this volume, beginning with the Renaissance and the Reformation, traces the growth of Liberal doctrine until the advent of the Fre …

Everyone is searching for happiness, but they are looking in the wrong place—outside. Real happiness, bliss, can only be found by going inside. Commenting on the ancient wisdom of the Shiva Sutras, O …

Lonely Planet: The world»s leading travel guide publisher A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldo …

Elizabeth Tyrwhit»s 1574 Morning and Euening Praiers is a collection of private prayers, a class of book that grew in both popularity and volume with the establishment of Protestantism in England fr …