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A keepsake collection of maps depicting legendary and real places for the lover of literature, history, and cartography. This exploration of the "Mythical Elsewhere" explores ...
After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell ...
For all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and ...
Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world ...
"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory."
--George Packer, The Atlantic
An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of ...
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid ...
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a ...