Richard Bentley 
A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris [PDF ebook] 
With an Answer to the Objections of the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esquire

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, …

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 cent …

Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an instit …

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 …

Charting Memory: Recalling Medieval Spain elaborates an interdiscursive picture of how Medieval Spain has been remembered by various Arab, Jewish, and Hispanic peoples from well before 1492 to the pr …

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 …

During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranking samurai family, he traveled to Nagasaki at age …

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 …

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of radio plays, nine of which …