Category - History

Bertrand du Guesclin was one of the main architects of the recovery of France. From humble beginnings he rose to become one of the great heroic fig...

This edition of Kipling's ""The Song of the English"" was originally published in November 1909. It included the six subsidiary poems: The Coastwis...

2022 Reprint of the 1931 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Jean Toomer was on...

The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn--as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy--wa...

Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writi...

Recovering the Ancient Magic presents the results of an 18-year-long study of Huna magic, detailing examples of fire-walking, spiritualism, levitat...

Ovid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally f...

The Essays was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, f...

Taking the words of Jesus that "With God, all things are possible", he [Shestov] extrapolates a philosophy of possibility or freedom as opposed to ...

Life on the Mississippi, Part 5, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preser...

HOW MUCH DO WE KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY? THE ONLY NOTIONS WE KNOW ARE THOSE LEARNED AT SCHOOL... BUT THERE IS A WHOLE HIDDEN WORLD TO DISCOVER...

This work examines Gutiérrez's Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003) as a literary response to the social, political, and economic crisis of Cuba's Spec...

New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him wh...