This book explores the interaction between literary culture and the public sphere in Australia in a series of informative, witty, intelligent and t...

The plays in this theatre book give teenage performers the chance to reveal the unique identities and motivations of students their own age. These ...

In Roman religion, Terminus was an agrarian god who protected boundary markers. Stones were often used to provide an effective means for marking th...

This is a tender book of poetry, written by a young mother of two, as she was dying of cancer. Ms. Cheyenne wrote most of these poems during the la...

While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental children’s literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass liter...

That Light Feeling Under Your Feet plunges headfirst into the surreal and slogging world of cruise ship workers.

Rising to the challenge of rendering the poem's Latin hexameters by adopting English iambic ones, Len Krisak's Aeneid doubles down on the English p...

Rising to the challenge of rendering the poem's Latin hexameters by adopting English iambic ones, Len Krisak's Aeneid doubles down on the English p...

What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of the other, to put o...

In this illuminating essay, Neil Bissoondath explores the powerful influence exerted by narrative on the human psyche. Storytelling is a primary ac...

True spiritual Masters are like rivers, each with their own uniquely pure, sweet water, nourished by the highest peaks. Although one may see them f...

These beautiful pages invite you to pick up your brush and grow. Kristy Rice’s joy-focused approach to watercolor art has won the hearts of fans wo...

The only extant treatise on statecraft from classical India, the Arthsastra is an invaluable resource for understanding ancient South Asian politic...

Micheline Maylor's The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should hav...

The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography features Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez's authoritative translation of The ...

A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day th...

A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day th...

This book explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different cou...

The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Ju...

The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Ju...

Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten...

The concept of a constant reformulation of the canon due to the notion of singularity or irreducibility of the case can be applied in both scientif...

Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett), this edition of The Cherry Orchard features Carnicke's ...

“Carmen Sylva, when she discovered that I was writing, instead of laughing at me and being ironical about my modest attempts at literature, encoura...

Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy mor...

First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and af...

This book provides a detailed analysis of the components of two exquisitely illuminated fourteenth-century English manuscripts, the Hours of the Vi...