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Portable Emerson
This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly …
Samuel Richardson and the Art of Letter-Writing
This fascinating study examines Samuel Richardson's letters as important works of authorial self-fashioning. It analyses the development of his epistolary style; the links between …
The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was: The first Black president A leader An inspiration Nelson Mandela was known for dedicating his life to fighting for equality in South Africa and overthrowing …
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Impressions
This book tackles photography’s role during Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family’s previously unpublished …
The Double in the Fiction of R.L. Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne Du Maurier
Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurier are authors of particular importance to the literature of the double, having produced, among other works, The Strange …
The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life
'Hitchings is extremely good at unravelling Johnson’s most bullish assertions . . . lucid and empathetic, scholarly but lively. A model Johnsonian, in fact.' The TimesThe World in …
Francis Warrington Dawson and the Politics of Restoration
\u0022This is a book that anyone interested in South Carolina history, the emergence of the New South, and the southern press, so important to the regional culture, will find …
David Bergelson
"e;Among the finest prose stylists in Yiddish literature, David Bergelson (1884-1952) was caught up in many of the twentieth century's most defining events. In 1909 he emerged …
Adam Ferguson and Ethical Integrity
This book is about learning how to live the good life. Part biography and part philosophical inquiry, it is a fresh, original interpretation of the intellectual world of the …
Moxon Tennyson
A new perspective on a book that transformed Victorian illustration into a stand-alone art.Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Poems dramatically redefined the …
Planning for Personal Success: A Humanist Approach
Learn how to stay focused and not give up when you hit a roadblock on your road to success!This book discusses how Humanists approach the important business of living a life that …
Pragmatic Reason
Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy. This book reflects …