Drawing on trauma studies and Holocaust research, Remnants of Song addresses both the aesthetic dimension of Baudelaire and Celan and their historical import. Shows that Celan’s poetry continues to posit…

"Frederick Douglass, the renowned nineteenth-century orator, editor, publisher, and statesman, was born into slavery in Maryland and escaped in 1838. He quickly became a national leader of the abolitionist movement…

Heart of Darkness describes a steamboat voyage up and down the Congo River by a British sea captain named Charles Marlow who is sent to fetch a renegade ivory collector…

Often considered the wittiest play in the English language, Wilde’s timeless play sparkles with wit and bite. Includes a new afterword and commentary by George Bernard Shaw and Mary McCarthy.

Shimmering beneath the dazzling witticisms and delicious irony is Wilde’s profound, serious, and unshakeable commitment to love. This edition combines Wilde’s thoughts on love from his published writings with a…

Elizabeth von Arnim's vivid, humorous, and subtly subversive Elizabeth and her German Garden is one of the great garden memoirs of all time. This handsome edition includes an afterword by…

From one of the most famous poets in history comes a new selection of writings to bereaved friends and acquaintances, providing comfort in a time of grief and words to…

In colonial New England, beautiful, young Hester Pryne bears a child that is not her husband's and is condemned to wear a scarlet "A" and live as an outcast. With…