Everyman

For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them and poets have long chronicled th...

For centuries poets in all the world's cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the earth and its people. Both an emotion and a conscio...

Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the pres...

Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. D...

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to...

This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array ofzombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils. Our culture's current obses...

When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Mitchell stumbles upon a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman wi...

At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At ...

Amid the 18th centurys golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burkes controversial mixture of...

The romantic forested landscape of southwest Germany is the setting for the birth of a friendship that will haunt sixteen-year-old Hans Schwarz for...

Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of Ch...

Explore Rome with 6 large-scale, fold-out maps for each of the city''s neighbourhoodsDetails of more than 180 places to visit - museums, parks, gal...

During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a great world re...

Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turge...

Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-co...

Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of novels is his masterpiece -which makes it perhaps...

Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included lite...

During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including 'Boule de Suif', 'The Necklace', 'The House of Mada...

This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Bo...

Humboldt (17691859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether cl...

With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his sister Constance bossi...