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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 18
Johnson on the English Language
This volume collects the most important statements on the English language by Samuel Johnson, one of its greatest expositors and speakers. The book includes scholarly, fully annotated editions of Johnson’s main writings on...
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 15, In Defense of Humanism: Letters to Dorp, Oxford, Lee, and a Monk
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 14
Sermons
It has been known since the publication of pre-Boswellian biographies that Samuel Johnson wrote sermons which were preached by others. The twenty-eight that have survived are presented here in their first scholarly...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 1
Diaries, Prayers, and Annals
Although Samuel Johnson is recognized as the central English literary figure of the second half of the 18th century, and the period is often referred to as "The Age of Johnson," no consequential edition of his works has...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 17
Volume 17: A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, Or Essay on Man (A Translation from the French)
This volume is the first scholarly edition of Samuel Johnson’s translation of Jean Pierre de Crousaz’s Commentaire sur la traduction en vers de M. Abbé Du Resnel, de l’Essai de M. Pope sur l’homme, published in 1739....
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 1, English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things
Publication of this volume brings to conclusion the Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, a thirty-year publishing project of landmark importance in the study of humanism in Western history. The volume...
Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 16
Rasselas and Other Tales
This volume brings together three of Johnson’s longest fictional pieces, showing the unusual similarities in some of their main themes and emphases. Rasselas, a philosophical tale that embodies the full range of...
The Soviet Theater
A Documentary History
In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years’ worth of archival...
Barley, Gold, or Fiat
Toward a Pure Theory of Money
Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik explore monetary control in a simple exchange economy. Examining how money enters, circulates, and exits an economy, they consider the...
Albrecht Dürer
Documentary Biography
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Dürer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of...