Karen O’Brien & Brian Young 
Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon [PDF ebook] 

A form of courtesy literature, Mother”s Advice Books were texts written by mothers to instruct their children in religious, educational, and occasionally wordly matters. The three texts included in …

Francis Graham Wilson was a central figure in the revival of interest in political philosophy and American political thought in the mid-twentieth century. While he is best known as a Catholic writer …

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL”S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers – a guide to what …

An important volume that discusses dementia by those who are directly affected by the condition – parents, grandchildren, children, partner, care workers, nurses, doctors and specialists in the field …

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 …

From the beginning of the seventeenth century, English society started to become preoccupied with education and how people acquired it. It is all the more surprising, then, that there should be relat …

‘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’ …

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed place within women”s studies courses and the women”s movement. Feminist Review is produced by a London-based …

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, …

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. …