The classic tragedy about the doomed young lovers is accompanied by historical and critical notes.

De opwarming van de aarde is een enorme bedreiging voor de mens en de natuurlijke systemen op aarde. Voor William Nordhaus is het duidelijk: wereldwij

This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roomm

First published just over 50 years ago and now in its Eighth Edition, Bill Hayt and John Buck’s Engineering Electromagnetics is a classic text that ha

An introduction for students, teachers, and lay readers to the delights of exploring the world of ancient Greece.

In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he

A story of torture and cold-blooded killing, and lies, denials and betrayal at the highest level.

This is the true story of Irving Tucker, who married an English girl, Yvonne, and left South Africa in 1976 to farm sheep on the Welsh border, growing

`Until the lions are taught to write, history will always be written by the hunters'. In the early planning stages of Freedom Park, Robin Binckes part

A controversial reworking of well-trodden American myth by the author of 'Naked Lunch'.

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city...Nature's Metropolis is elegant te

Sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution

It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her peopl

William Kentridge superstar: The South African William Kentridge (*1955) is highly regarded internationally for his works, which he realizes with mast

Originally published in 1954, William Golding's Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times. A plane cras

Richard of York, the bitter, deformed brother of King Edward IV, is secretly plotting to seize the throne of England. Charming and duplicitous, powerf

In een fonkelende nieuwe vertaling laat Bas Belleman zien waarom William Shakespeare de grootste dichter aller tijden is. Deze 154 sonnetten zijn nooi

A towering, intense novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the first furore

William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, in 1928. He is the author of fourteen much-lauded novels: he won the Whitbread Prize th