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Macbeth
"To be able to read Macbeth with the eye of one of our profession's top linguists and scholars is a treat for the heart as well as the mind."—Tita French Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State University
Charlemagne
An authoritative new life of one of the most important figures of history Charlemagne—ruler of the vast Frankish kingdom from 768 to his death in 814 and Holy Roman emperor from the year 800—is...
Romeo and Juliet
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist"Burton Raffel is surely one of the profession’s top linguists and scholars,...
Chinese Sculpture
The most up-to-date and detailed exploration of China's magnificent sculptural heritage Sculpture is becoming known as one of China’s great arts. Neolithic figurines, rows upon rows of underground terra...
American Law in the Twentieth Century
In this long-awaited successor to his landmark work A History of American Law, Lawrence M. Friedman offers a monumental history of American law in the twentieth century.The first general history of its...
The Encyclopedia of New England
An essential work, the first to celebrate, document, and interpret New England’s unique regional history and culture Often defined by the familiar images of taciturn Yankees, town meetings, maple syrup,...
Richard I
Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a king who neglected his kingdom, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler. In this wholly rewritten version of a classic account of the reign of Richard The Lionheart,...
Bill Evans
How My Heart Sings
This enthralling book is the first biography in English of Bill Evans, one of the most influential of all jazz pianists. Peter Pettinger, himself a concert pianist, describes Evans’s life (the personal tragedies and...
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.“A fascinating . . . account of early Christian...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan“The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography].”—J. H. Plumb, New...