Hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind," this work paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and ...

"My First Summer in the Sierra," whose heart is the diary Muir kept while tending sheep in Yosemite country, enticed thousands of Americans to visit this magical place, and resounds with Muir's regard for the "divine, enduring, unwasteable ...

The daughter of J.D. Salinger offers a portrait of life with her reclusive father, providing a study of her complex family relationships.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy.

An advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy for those who do not read Greek.

This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self.

He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others.

Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, and Dayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of Mark Twain, American literature's touchstone, its funniest and most inventive figure.".

As well as an authoritative text, this edition boasts an introduction that explores multiple facets of the play.