(Paperback)

Offers advice to women of various ages and levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. This work paints a picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a glimpse into the considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. This collection of Nashe's works includes "The Unfortunate Traveller", "Pierce Penniless", "Terrors of the Night", "Lenten Stuff", and more.

(Paperback)

A volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' - The Guardian

(Paperback)

Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris - and John Updike.

(Paperback)

Contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menace, responding with hope and intelligence in a series of essays that tackle the major questions of the day.

(Paperback)

"Prize-winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders explores the role of imagination in art, science, and ethics. He shows that bold acts of imagination are key to healing our divided society and damaged Earth"--Provided by publisher.

(Paperback)

A title, in which the author argues that sex is at the heart of his writing because it is at the heart of life - a vital force as essential as bread, money, work or play.

(Paperback)

The famour humorist's celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the unforgettable Harold Ross.

(Paperback, Main)

A highly irresistible debut that celebrates the universe in all its wondrous glory.

(Paperback)

A moving, literary collection on the meanings, nuances, and definitions of "home"

(Paperback)

This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration ofartists who raise hell, transform their bodies, angertheir elders and show their audience dark, disturbingthings.

(Hardback, Main)

A stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.

(Paperback)

An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice

(Paperback)

Betjeman's infectious enthusiasms have made him a keystone of England's common culture.

(Paperback, Main)

A lethal cocktail of memoir and criticism, Tunnel Vision launches the career of one of the finest new essayists around.

(Paperback, Main)

Features the author's own selection of the best of the essays he has published over more than a decade in such places as The Believer and the London Review of Books. This book includes essays on writers, as well as essays on Gerhard Richter, David Lynch, and Sonic Youth - and all of them are written with the same stylish and provocative flare.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author's work. It is divided into three sections: State of the Art , which covers literature; State of the Union , which deals with politics and public life; and State of Being , which gives his personal responses to people and events.

(Paperback)

Shows the range and depth of Ruskin's work, and reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. This volume also shows that his work "Unto this Last" is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy.

(Paperback)

A collection of literary portraits looks at waterfront workers, people on the Bowery, Mohawk Indians working on high structural steel, gypsies, itinerant preachers, and others.

(Paperback)

Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

(Hardback)

First published in 1516, "Utopia" depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination and religious intolerance. Its radical humanism has had a dramatic effect on modern history and the challenge of its vision is as persistent today as it was in the Renaissance.

(, Main)

Harold Pinter is is considered by many 'the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation.'