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

"The Future of the Women’s Movement" by Helena M. Swanwick is a thought-provoking essay advocating feminism, women’s rights, and social change. Swanwick, a prominent figure in the suffrage …

From one of Britain”s most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel.Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer”s Yoga for …

”An honest, compelling and important account, and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security” CHRIS PACKHAM Why are so many animals facing extinc …

George Orwell is acclaimed as one of English literature”s great essayists. Yet, while many are considered classics, as a body of work his essays have been neglected. Peter Marks provides the first s …

The prizewinning author of The Innocents examines the relationships among fact, fiction, fictionalization, and appropriation in this thought-provoking work. “In all creative writing, the question of …

What was known and understood about the nature of the Nazi dictatorship in Britain prior to war in 1939? How was Nazism viewed by those outside of Germany? The British Press and Nazi Germany consider …

Is there some adventure out there that we are not having, some vividness, some wild pleasure, that we are not experiencing in our responsible, productive days? … We are bequeathed on earth one very …

First published in 1991. The volume reprints excerpts from six radical feminist journals of this crucial decade:The Lily, the Genius of Liberty, the Pioneer and Women”s Advocate, the Una, The Woman’ …

La Cazzaria is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance-a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire. The book is remarkable for its frank discussions of sexuality and explicit …

”Yet hath it been ever esteemed a matter commendable to collect [works] together, and incorporate them into one body, that we may behold at once, what divers Off-springs have proceeded from one brai …