Oxford University Press

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can        properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and        Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that        go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of...

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's criticism and philosophy. The stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century and present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's...

This edition contains five comedies on the theme of marital disharmony by the foremost Restoration playwright John Vanbrugh (1664-1726). In addition to the   The Relapse it includes    The Provoked Wife,   The Confederacy, A Journey to London, and    The Country House. Published in the Oxford English Drama series, it has modernized texts, a...

How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor RooseveltThe Forum and the Tower tackles a fascinating and perennial topic: the relationship between the academy and the world of politics. For all the talk about the remoteness of ivory tower ideas from 'the real world,' it is the case that ideas do in fact have...

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This book traces the history of the romance through the turbulent history of twentieth-century women in France. It offers a compelling analysis not only of the mass-market or popular romance, but also of the bestselling 'middlebrow' novel, and of 'literary' romances by authors including Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and their contemporary...