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A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of...

A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union’s decline, by a leading historian of modern EuropeIs the European Union in decline? Recent history, from the debt and migration crises to...

Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist,...

An ordinary German soldier’s letters home from Poland and Russia during World War II Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of...

The aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history, institutions, society and economy of the...

An invaluable account of how auctions work―and how to make them workFew forms of market exchange intrigue economists as do auctions, whose theoretical and practical implications are enormous. John...

This is a completely rewritten and updated edition of Professor Parry's textbook of medicine in Africa. It sets out for medical students the universal princples of medicine in the particular context...

A revised and abridged version of The Oxford Companion to French Literature features entries on writers, translators, particular works, literary movements and genres, the evolution of French...

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All is True, is...

The general editors of the new series of forty volumes--the renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA--have assembled a team of six eminent scholars...

This collection of source material in Greek and Latin--literary, inscriptional, and numismatic--covers a period on which there is no adequate continuous treatment by any ancient writer. The paperback...

The World's Desire begins with Odysseus utterly alone. His kingdom of Ithaca is an empty, abandoned wasteland. His beloved wife Penelope is dead. His patron goddess Athena has forsaken him. But...