In The Abolition of Man, Lewis looks at the curriculum of the English prep school to see if it’s teachings discount man’s deeper nature.

Michael Freedland’s biography gives a full portrait of the unorthodox singer’s life, starting with his tough beginnings in the Italian quarter of Hoboken, New Jersey.

Young Oxford tutor Theodore Gumbril has become thoroughly dismayed by the formality of college life and the staid British institutions of learning. An impetuous need for celebration, even rebellion, possesses him...

Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams.

Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer, Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography.

Dickens’s first historical novel is set in 1780s England at the time of the Gordon Riots. In a case of mistaken identity, Barnaby Rudge, a pale half-wit, is arrested as leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters.

First published in monthly parts from March 1852 to September 1853, this novel follows the fortunes of three pedestrian characters - Esther Summerson, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone...

First published in monthly parts from March 1852 to September 1853, this novel follows the fortunes of three pedestrian characters; Esther Summerson, Ada Clare, and Richard Carstone.

At the age of seventeen, Spurgeon became pastor to a handful of believers. Soon he was the best-known minister in the metropolis, judged competent to conduct a service for almost 24,000 people.

For Spurgeon’s last thirty years to his death in 1892, he had a congregation of nearly six thousand to be maintained in the heart of London and a wider audience of perhaps a million to be addressed weekly through his printed sermon.

Using allegoric narrative, stinging satire, reasoned insight, and his signature wealth of compassion, C.S. Lewis wrote highly entertaining and deeply illuminating essays and books...

Doctor Peter Blood’s quiet life is shattered when he is convicted of treason for helping a wounded nobleman.

Giacomo Casanova’s reputation rests largely on his obsession with sex.

This reissue of the 1919 classic combines the immortal stories from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into one glorious saga of heroism and magical adventure.

Dickens wrote these stories during the 1850s as contributions to Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited.

Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had not been for World War II.

Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had not been for World War II.

Confucius taught a moral wisdom that would become a predominant social force in China from the second century BCE until the mid-twentieth century.

One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic and severe group of artists and intellectuals...

When the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at age ninety-one in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers.

René Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life.

Don Quixote dons rusty armor to become a knight-errant, roaming the world to right wrongs.

For Robert Keegan, the face of battle is the face of the common soldier.

In this lush, imaginative history, a fascinating true story of artistic genius and personal triumph, the author brings to life Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti…

When Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood first hit upon the discovery they called The Food of the Gods they thought, what harm could there be in a little scientific experiment...