Mary Shelley's classic on man's blasphemous attempt to create life is accompanied by commentary on the author and the stylistic, thematic, and mythic aspects of the novel.

Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new ...

Romance, passion and intrigue on a pirate ship

A roman à clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the ...

A group of friends' leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception.

A collection of critical essays on Huxley, his satires, and fiction works with a chronology of events in the author's life.

Living by their wits in the steamy slums of Bahia, a gang of orphans and runaways, led by fifteen-year-old Bullet, spend their time stealing from Brazil's rich and privilaged until public outcry demands their capture.