Edith Hall

Wonderful . . . a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours. Natalie Haynes, Independent"

In ‘Wat zou Aristoteles doen’ maakt Edith Hall duidelijk hoe Aristoteles ideeën juist nu kunnen dienen als kompas voor een betrokken en gelukkig leven

'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.' In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portra

A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, The House of Mirth sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the weal

Hét kunsthistorisch naslagwerk waarin op onderwerp, persoon, thema, handeling, object of anderszins gezocht kan worden naar de betekenis van een kunst

Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of ninete

There were only a few women economists who made it to the surface and whose voices were heard in the history of economic thought of Adam Smith, David

A native of Hungary, Edith Eger was a teenager in 1944 when she and her family were sent to Auschwitz during the Second World War. Despite overwhelmi

Edith Eva Eger was zestien jaar oud toen ze in 1944 naar Auschwitz werd gedeporteerd. Haar ouders werden direct naar de gaskamer gestuurd en Edith wer

'An incredible human being with an extraordinary story to share' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A beautiful, life-changing manifesto' Brene Brown'I will be fore

Wat er met ons gebeurt is uiteindelijk niet het belangrijkst. Het gaat erom wat we ermee doen. We krijgen in ons leven allemaal te maken met lijden.

Seventeen-year-old Charity is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behaviour i

This book traces the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from 421

<p>In ‘Wat zou Aristoteles doen’ maakt Edith Hall duidelijk hoe Aristoteles ideeën juist nu kunnen dienen als kompas voor een betrokken en geluk

This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argu

New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors inc

The extensive performance history of Euripides' Medea since the Renaissance underscores its lasting social and political relevance.

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote d

'Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? This is advice that won't go out of fa

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. But who were the ancie