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Russia’s Dangerous Texts
Politics Between the Lines
Russia’s Dangerous Texts examines the ways that writers and their works unnerved and irritated Russia’s authoritarian rulers both before and after the Revolution. Kathleen F. Parthé identifies ten historically...
Biblical Hebrew, Second Ed. (Supplement for Advanced Comprehension)
This revised edition of the best-selling Biblical Hebrew is thoroughly updated and augmented for a new generation of students. Designed for use in a two-semester course, the book’s fifty-five lessons are constructed...
Fast-Talking Dames
“There is nothing like a dame,” proclaims the song from South Pacific. Certainly there is nothing like the fast-talking dame of screen comedies in the 1930s and ’40s. In this engaging book, film scholar and movie...
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The mystery is the identity of a spy working in a foreign embassy to frustrate...
Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy
Variations on a Theme
Born in Hungary, trained in Chinese studies in Germany, Etienne Balazs was, until his sudden and premature death in 1963, a professor at the Sorbonne and an intellectual leader among European specialists on China. In this...
Concepts of Criticism
Provocative and penetrating, these essays attest to Mr. Wellek’s intense concern during the past two decades with the problems besetting the disciplines of literary theory, criticism, and history. Each essay accordingly sets...
Lectures on Modern Idealism
A classic study of the origins and foundations of post-Kantian idealism."Royce has . . . gone straight for the toughest kernel of that period of thought, Kant’s Deduction of the Categories, and has actually...
Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico
Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin 1846-1847
Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders,...
Ben Jonson: Sejanus
One of Jonson’s greatest plays, Sejanus, has seldom been edited, and is here published, with full notes and introduction, for the first time since 1911. Mr. Barish shows that Jonsonian tragedy can be understood and...
Bartholomew Fair
Not as well known today as Volpne and The Alchemist, this comedy of London’s lower classes was a great favorite of Ben Jonson’s contemporaries. The richness of its comic invention and the complexity of its plot...