Biography

This is the first scholarly edition of Johnson's letters to appear for forty years. It...

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and...

This is the first critical biography of Xavier Marmier. The celebrity of Marmier was such...

Jim Corbett is world famous for his classic man-eater stories. However, the three volumes collected...

Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children...

An Englishwoman of no particular fame living in World War I Brussels started a secret...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the most eminent literary figure of the German Enlightenment and...

The third and forth of six volumes that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's...

Ford Madox Ford wrote some of the best English prose of the twentieth century, mastering...

'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an...

This is the long-awaited supplementary volume to the authoritative seven-volume edition of The Collected Letters...

Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated...

Hopkins's letters are his secular confessional, and if we wish to understand the man and...

'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person...

The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942) and...

Edward Thomas is an important figure in the English literary canon, a major twentieth-century poet,...

This volume is the second of six that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's...

This volume is the first of six that will present in their entirety Frances Burney's...

During the twenty-two years of their married life, W. B. and George Yeats corresponded regularly...

Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish...

This biography of Joseph Severn (1793-1879), the best known but most controversial of Keats's friends,...

A feminist, an outspoken activist, a woman without a college education, Midge Costanza was one...

Sportsman. Naturalist. Warrior. President. There are so many sides to Theodore Roosevelt that it is...

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all...

This miscellany of popular writings deals with the world of academe, politics, and policy, especially...

Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats in the formative phase of...

This balanced selection of Gandhi's writings, taken from his letters, articles, and books, represents the...

'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I...

'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its...

'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight;...

Lyndall Urwick was the dominant figure in British management between the late 1920s and the...

This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give...

Leontius Of Byzantium (485-543) Byzantine monk and theologian who provided a breakthrough of terminology in...

The Life of the Madman of Ü tells the story of Künga Zangpo (1458-1532), a...

A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problemsA self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory...

For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics,...

Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work was...

Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond...

W.D.Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in thinking about evolutionary biology - a revolution...