Kirjallisuudentutkimus: 1600–1800-luku

In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's …

For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for …

'To see a World in a Grain of Sand 'And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour' William Blake wrote some of the most moving and …

'Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.' Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have …

Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies – Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet and Othello – in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics editionThe theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is …

Pekka Vartiaisen magnum opus Länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historia (912 s., BTJ 2009) ulottui Gilgamesista toisen maailmansodan päättymiseen. Opiskelijoiden pyynnöstä julkaisemme …

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the …

This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as …

This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times …

Madame de Sevigne (1626-1696) oli ranskalainen markiisitar. Häneltä on säilynyt yli tuhannen kirjeen laajuinen kirjeenvaihto, joka on saanut klassikon asemanranskalaisessa …