Oxford University Press

A gold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the major personalities and pivotal events of the war that redefined the American nation.    Drawing upon recent research that has moved beyond battles and military campaigns to address the significant...

Gaskell's depiction of a fallen woman as her heroine shocked contemporary readers.          Ruth is seduced and heartlessly abandoned but finds shelter and love with her        illegitimate child until a twist of fate brings her past back to haunt her. This new        edition explores the novel's radicalism and cultural influence....

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The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662This unique edition of the Book of Common Prayer includes the texts of three        different versions, 1549, 1559, and 1662, to provide a panorama of the history of        ritual in England from the Reformation to the present day. The first edition for the        common reader, with full notes and introduction,...

John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His        accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the        accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer's writer.          He set his novels in places he knew intimately-Dublin, London, and the West...

A Very Short IntroductionBeginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, Doyle leads the reader to the realization that we are still living with developments of the French Revolution. It destroyed the age-old cultural, institutional and social structures in France and...