From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with...

Looks at the reconstructed exhibit of degenerate art censored by the Nazis in 1937

Mnuchin Gallery exhibition of artist Sam Gilliam's two seminal series, the Beveled-edge and Drape paintings, spanning from 1967 to 1973. This was the artist's first solo exhibition in New York in nearly twenty-five years, and coincided with his...

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually...

Dino Campagni's classic chronicle gives a detailed account of a crucial period in the history of Florence, beginning about 1280 and ending in the first decade of the fourteenth century. During that time Florence was one of the largest cities in Europe...

Analyzes Kant's theory that emotion must be separated from reason, argues that this division is unnatural and discriminatory towards women, and discusses the political implications of Kant's theory

This interpretive introduction provides unique insight into Plato's Republic. Stressing Plato's desire to stimulate philosophical thinking in his readers, Julia Annas here demonstrates the coherence of his main moral argument on the nature of justice,...

Traces the life of Pound, describes his childhood and education, and discusses the influence of his background on his poetry

The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the...

Alexandre Dumas's novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas's most famous tales, the real hero is no Musketeer, but a flower. The...

When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said "no other writer now living can write with comparable grace and equal enthusiasm about...

Book by Banks, Lynne Reid

123 pp. with 16 illus., 8vo.