Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all...

Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all...

The Aeneid is one of the greatest works in all of world literature. It is filled with mythology, history...

Few philosophers have so extensively influenced thought and language as Aristotle. His conception of the universe pervades Christian theology. Knowledge of his thought is necessary to understand Bacon, Galileo...

Says Mortimer J. Adler, "Almost all of the philosophical truths that I have come to know and understand I have learned from Aristotle."...

Phileas Fogg, a distinguished member of London’s Reform Club, takes up a wager to circle the globe in just eighty days.

In this amusing and trenchant book, Paul Fussell zeroes in on the death of American sensibility and taste. “We are living in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash,” he writes in this reference work that exposes bad, from bad advertising and bad ideas to bad restaurants and bad TV.

Little known in this country, The Belly of Paris is one of Émile Zola’s most descriptive, humorous, and exciting fictions.

Dostoevsky's novel tells the stirring tale of four brothers who are behind the murder of one of literature's most despicable characters: their father.

Burmese Days presents a bitter and satirical picture of the white man’s rule in Upper Burma.

In this sequel to Kidnapped, Balfour returns to the city to defend his friend against false charges of murder.

Don Cook is the first American to write a major biography of Charles de Gaulle from an American perspective. Rich with new anecdotal material, it offers fresh evaluations...

The voyages of Christopher Columbus comprise one of the great adventure stories of all time...

Through scores of intellectual, social, political, and religious endeavors, Muggeridge’s life touched the heart of twentieth-century history.

The Infernal Grove opens with the author in Geneva preparing a survey and then back to India as assistant editor of the Calcutta Statesman.

Winston Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence, in times of war, of course, but also in times of peace.

Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary idea that the French Revolution was a courageous and noble uprising of the poor and oppressed.

The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates current research, recent trends in interpretation, and novel perspectives to offer a sharp focus on social history, Jewish history, women’s roles in society, and religion and heresy.

With the same brilliance that characterized his classic I, Claudius, Robert Graves tells the dramatic...

Rousseau introduced two modern- day thoughts that pervade academia: (1) Free expression of the creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures; and…

This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century...

Henry Morton Stanley was sent to Africa to find Livingstone, which first won him international acclaim.

Darwin's theory of evolution is accepted by most educated Americans as simple fact. This easy...

Of all Charles Dickens's novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time.

Of all Charles Dickens' novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time...