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A Very Short IntroductionThe heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space. This Very Short Introduction presents this lively literary world by focusing on texts (epics, novels, plays, poems, screenplays) that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social...

The Experience of Childhood in HistoryWhen Barbara Hanawalt&'s acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt&'s book "e;as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers...

In her fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Catherine Phillips uses letters, new archival material, and contemporary publications to reconstruct the visual world Gerard Manley Hopkins knew between 1862 and 1889 - with its illustrated journals, art exhibitions, Gothic architecture, photographic shows, and changing art criticism - and to...

The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven        subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba,        Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. The format and style of Suetonius' Lives        of the Caesars was to set the tone for biography throughout western literature -...

His Life, His Work, His WorldAward-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography of Marc Blitzstein deftly captures the fascinating life and career of an American composer who was openly gay and Marxist at a time when neither was acceptable to the American public. The first biographer to deal with Blitzstein's music as well as his life,...

When Tom is sent to his aunt's house for the summer he resigns himself to weeks of boredom. Lying awake one night he listens to the grandfather clock in the hall strike every hour. Eleven . . . Twelve . . . Thirteen. Thirteen! Tom rushes down the stairs and opens the back door. There, awaiting him, is a beautiful garden. A garden that...