How can we think about peoples and cultures unlike our own? In the early modern period, the fact of human diversity presented Europeans with little cause for anxiety: they simply assumed the superiority of the West. During the eighteenth century this...

Frederick, after finishing his literary work (it took 7 years) seeks Lyle, a woman, through the denizens of Greenwich Village.

A contemporary of Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and other New England Renaissance figures, Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (1793–1867) is largely unknown to today’s readers. Although she left no published works, Sarah is frequently mentioned in letters...

A master of short fiction, Evan Connell's stories go right to the heart of the American character. Collected here are 56 stories gathered from his writing career, some heartbreaking and some comic. "A finely wrought study of human nature, masterfully...

The evolution of the symphony is one of the greatest achievements of the Western musical mind. Its 250-year history--how it began to challenge the traditional superiority of vocal music to eventually become regarded as one of the most fulfilling genres...

Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War...

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Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear,...

One of the first two volumes in Harper's Eminent Lives series, Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant – a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, serve two terms as president, write one of the...