Celebrating the centenary of the birth of James Baldwin with this wide-ranging volume of short essays, reflections and poetry. This moving collection demonstrates the significant legacy of the writer and…

Combining several critical approaches this study develops a synthetic view of the messenger in Greek tragedy, showing how this role illuminates some of the genre’s most persistent concerns, especially those…

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James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American working-class history by investigating the ways in which working-class people’s personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class…

Chicago’s packinghouse workers were not the hopeless creatures depicted by Upton Sinclair in The Jungle,
but active agents in the early twentieth century transformation that swept urban industrial America. In…

Hear What I Can’t Say is a mystery that revolves around a fictitious nursing home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the nursing home seems too perfect to be true. Is Logan…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…