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A Companion to Plato
This broad-ranging Companion comprises original contributions from leading Platonic scholars and reflects the different ways in which they are dealing with Plato’s legacy. Covers …
Peter Rabbit: A Tale of Four Seasons
Join Peter Rabbit in this beautiful picture book of an adventurous year in the woodlands he calls home. An enchanting Peter Rabbit story with a magical pop-up ending.From hunting …
Two Witnesses at Gettysburg
The two reporters, A.J.L. Fremantle and Whitelaw Reid, one traveling with the Union army and the other with the Confederates, are the authors of these two magnificent firsthand …
Treason Trial of Aaron Burr
The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of …
A. Mary F. Robinson
Born in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed to cultural and literary currents from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was …
Return to Reason
The turmoil and brutality of the twentieth century have made it increasingly difficult to maintain faith in the ability of reason to fashion a stable and peaceful world. After the …
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
The essays in this volume represent the major currents in critical thinking about Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison's widely acclaimed examination of the individual quest for …
Emerson and Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great moral philosopher. One of his principle contributions is the theory of self-reliance, a view of democratic individuality. During much of his life, …
Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking 1709-1791
The traditional view of Samuel Johnson as hostile to particulars, trifles, and aesthetic mediocrity only half-explains his authorial character. Samuel Johnson and the Art of …
Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel
How key changes to the married women's property laws contributed to new ways of viewing women in society are revealed in Deborah Wynne's study of literary representations of women …
Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion
Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern …
Poisonous Muse
The nineteenth century was, we have been told, the “century of the poisoner,” when Britain and the United States trembled under an onslaught of unruly women who poisoned husbands …