Prose: Non-Fiction

One of the central figures of twentieth-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter-writer. His correspondence, like his poetry...

The Useless Mouths and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauv...

Madam, it is in your power to take me off this rack.... -- JOHN RUSSELL TO LADY FRANCES RICH, COUNTESS OF WARWICK This lavishly illustrated tribu...

An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from ...

Zhiqing: Stories from Chinas Special Generation presents the recollections of fourteen men and women who were sent down to the countryside during C...

Nature in the early united states. An important figure in early American science and letters, William Bartram (1739-1823) has been known almost exc...

A chance to move to the US Wild West allows TV presenter Philippa Forrester to fulfil a lifelong dream of living among and learning all she can a...

In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies Macbain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a ten...

Democratic societies take pride in the freedom of expression. Indeed, the right to dissent and tolerance of diverse viewpoints distinguish a democr...

Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798....

Questioning a particular tradition of reading, Carol Sherman writes a series of metacritical essays that revise many of our assumptions about Volta...

Philip Stewart demonstrates that in each of three novels--Marivaux''s La Vie de Marianne, Diderot''s La Religieuse, and Rousseau''s Julie ou la Nou...

Terry Pratchett in his own wordsWith a foreword by Neil GaimanTerry Pratchett earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bests...