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

First published in 1989. Mas”udi was born in Baghdad about 896 AD, during the Caliphate of Mu”tadid and died in Egypt sometime around the year 956, eleven years after the Buwaihids, a Shi”a dynast …

Mark Perlman was the founding editor of the Journal of Economic Literature and responsible for issues from 1969 until 1980 when he retired. He has also written and edited a number of books and articl …

Tales of female daredevils, warriors, killers, and victims: “Radiant essays inspired by ‘slivers and bits’ of real women’s lives…Wise, fresh, captivating.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   At t …

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies m …

"From the Easy Chair Vol. 1" by George William Curtis is a collection of insightful essays and commentary that offer astute observations and cultural analysis. Curtis, known for his wit and …

The seventeenth century saw a dramatic increase in self-writing-from the private jotting down of personal thoughts in an irregular and spontaneous way, to the carefully considered composition of exte …

Almanacs were highly influential on popular opinion during the early modern period. They were the least expensive kinds of books and had a practical use as a calendar, literary miscellany, weather gu …

Roger Bromley deals with the ways in which certain popular forms contribute to the social production of memories. The texts he examines include the fictions of R. F. Delderfield and Lena Kennedy. Thi …

Join Joe Shute as he travels across Britain tracing the history of our seasons and discovering how they are changing. We talk about them. We plan our lives around them. The changing seasons are part …

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possib …