The sixth volume in The Braziller Series of Australian Poets features the work of a much celebrat...

Michel Braudeau's The Flight of the Monarch and Other Reflections magically spins simple facts of...

A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette is haunted by the memo...

In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic

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A fictional autobiography of the fantastically creative eighteenth-century Italian engraver Giova...

A former U.S. soldier recalls the experience of training at Fort Ord during the Vietnam era. Illu...

Tullia d'Aragona is one of the most renowned women writers from the Italian Renaissance. Given th...

'Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has had a success which few historiansexperience and which is usually re...

Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet

'These poems seem broadcast--not to a European war zone behind an iron curtain of Communism but t...

Encompassing two thousand years of building history, The Architecture Reader includes 40 key text...