322 results for '"ANONYMOUS"'

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: Das Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G... Erstdruck: Leipzig 1747/48 (anonym). Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria...

Robert Triptow stumbled across a real-life class photo of an anonymous 1937 public school under a pile of garbage and his imagination took off. Several years later, the result is the utterly...

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions...

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize...

"The unfiltered and eye-opening book you've been waiting for" (Cosmopolitan) from anonymous submissive immersed in the BDSM community, reckoning with the divide between our desires and the...

"Three years ago, Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threatening message. It mentioned a gun and nine white bullets-one of which was intended for Detective Joona Linna. According to the anonymous...

The fifth and final volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important...

The War Diaries brings together -- in their own words -- the stories of men and women who have endured wartime life. By turns horrific and comic, the entries retain the candid intimacy that is the...

Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author.Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal...

Of all the terms with which Americans define themselves as members of society, few are as elusive as "middle class." This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware "middle class"...

After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here...

Instant New York Times Bestseller! An undercover FBI agent investigates a family with suspected ties to organized crime—by posing as their live-in nanny in this thriller from the world’s #1...

From the New York Times bestselling author—a gripping novel of late night encounters that’s “hypnotically eerie, sometimes even funny, but most of all … [a book] that keeps ratcheting up the...

American children's poetry began with Native American cradle songs, moved on to a rhymed alphabet, blossomed in the 19th century with "A Visit from St. Nicholas," expanded widely in the 20th century,...

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of...

A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam”, by the highly acclaimed historian of SpainIn this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808–14), Napoleon’s six-year war against Spain, Ronald...

At the end of a century whose catastrophic violence has damaged irreparably the human capacity for hope, the advance of scientific knowledge has so deepened our understanding of the origins of life...

What do fact-checkers, anesthesiologists, U.N. interpreters, and structural engineers have in common? For most of us, the better we perform the more attention we receive. Yet for many...

Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft (1797 – 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern...

An engaging and authoritative overview of the history of footwear from the Middle Ages to today, illustrated with rare and luxurious examples from the V&A’s collectionShoes have always captured the...