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The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The other stories collected in this volume draw on Crane's subsequent experience of war reporting and include `The Open Boat, `The Monster' and `The Blue...

His Life and WorksModest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared outside...

Combining cultural, urban, and political history, this book assesses the extent to which communication and politics mutually influenced each other in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice, using a wide range of sources including including rumours, graffiti, spies' reports, council debates, leaks, and printed pamphlets....

The two 'Alice' books are masterpieces of carefree nonsense for children and also embody layers of satire and allusion and mathematical, linguistic, and philosophical jokes. This new edition explores their complex status and the many interpretations of them, taking account of the most recent research and critical opinion....

Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know certain propositions, while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. In its starkest form, the puzzle is this: we do not think we know that a given lottery ticket will be a loser, yet we...

Scholarship in the Service of the ChurchA detailed survey of the life and thought of Origen (c.185-254 A.D.), the most        important Greek-speaking Christian theologian and Biblical scholar in antiquity.          Heine considers how the two urban centers of Alexandria in Egypt and Caesarea in        Palestine, and their communities of faith, had...