In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times—unveiling Donne as the ...

These are surprise, the quality of opposing forces, the success of friendly forces with which the Rangers were cooperating, and popular support.

Taking the reader on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into context and shows us how Blake can help us better understand ourselves.

The author of the masterly volumes Intellectuals, Creators, and Heroes returns with a collection of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in history.

The Ministry of Truth is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Great ...

... Gifford and D. Shutler Jr., 1956, Archaeological Excavations in New Caledonia, Anthropological Records 18:1–125 (Berkeley: University of California Press). 14. Thor Heyerdahl and Edwin ... Charles Montague Cooke Jr. are related by Yoshio ...

Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland's dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929.

... Charles W. Wills , Army Life of an Illinois Soldier ( Carbondale , IL , 1996 ) , p . 22 ; Loume R. Speer , Portals ... Gifford ( 93rd N.Y. ) letter to his father , written in early October 1863 ( copy in author's possession ) ...