Twenty-one scholars commemorate the artist's birthday, providing interpretations, attributions and previously unpublished photographs.

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A paperback edition of Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations over five millennia. It includes nearly 450 illustrations. The text is the same as that of the 1974 edition.Mythologist Joseph Campbell was a masterful...

Catalogo della mostra tenutasi presso i Musei Capitolini, Roma, 11 febbraio - 15 maggio 2005. Testi di Cesare de Seta, Yves Bonnefoy, Chiara Frugoni, Marco Fumaroli, Mario Bevilacqua, Franco Marenco. Numerose illustrazioni a colori e in bianco e nero...

Aunt Augusta, in her late 70's embroils her bachelor nephew, an utterly respectable, dahlia-growing, retired bank manager, in a series of wild escapades. The action moves from London, across the European continent to Istanbul, and ends in Paraguay. Most...

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of...

This digitally reprinted edition of Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary has the same content as the original 1971 edition. Professor Bayley, in this first critical assessment in English of the whole range of Pushkin's writing, examines his achievement in...

Text: English, French (translation)

A two-volume set that discusses how the death of Jesus was portrayed in the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John; includes information on what each of the authors was trying to convey in each passage.

“I’ve devoted myself to the enterprise of destroying my memory . . . I set fire to it, and with its debris I charcoal-scrawl the paper.” Part novel and part autobiography, The Great Fire of London is one of the great literary undertakings of the last...

Text: English, Czech (translation)

"To put it crudely: evolution has left a few screws loose between the neocortex and the hypothalamus." Thus Arthur Koestler defines his hypothesis of "schizophysiology" in Janus. Written towards the end of his life this book serves as a summation of his...

That gifted alchemist has presented another mind-teasing monograph on the reciprocity of parapsychology & physics where mind & matter now meet destroying "the greatest superstition of our age--the materialistic clockwork universe of early 19th century...

In March 1983, Arthur and Cynthia Koestler both committed suicide. Arthur Koestler was suffered from two increasingly painful and debilitating illnesses but Cynthia was 22 years younger and in perfect health. This book--the chapters were written...

1. How did you read the book? Page by page? Zampanò's text, then Truant's? What was your reaction to trying to navigate through the book? Confusion? Frustration? Claustrophobia? Terror? Intrigue? How does the form of the novel affect and reflect the...

Forty stories by the popular British novelist show his mastery of narrative, suspense, and atmosphere

Alexander Souter was a Scottish biblical scholar, specializing in the text of the New Testament and Latin commentaries on the Pauline epistles. In 1937 he became editor-in-chief of what was envisioned to be the Oxford Latin Dictionary, but World War II...