Prose Translation by: Robert Durling Robert Durling's translations of Inferno and Purgatorio are widely admired; in a sea of English-language translations of Dante, the ones provided by Durling stand among the best. Notes not only illuminate Paradiso, but stress the...

This volume tells Churchill’s story from August 1945 through October 1951. During this time, Churchill traveled 55,000 miles, wrote more than 700 pieces of correspondence, delivered over 250 speeches, and authored nearly a dozen new articles as well as his...

In the first eight months of his wartime premiership, Winston Churchill surmounted more crises than many leaders face in an entire career. He became Prime Minister as a fast-disintegrating ground war in Europe, and a German blitzkrieg as intense as...

Through the documents in these pages, Martin Gilbert takes the reader on a fascinating journey, covering a wide range of domestic and international problems. Churchill’s vivid personality is evident as each controversy unfolds—traced through private letters and secret Cabinet records,...

This volume of The Churchill Documents tells Churchill’s story from 1929 to 1935: the first five and a half of his “Wilderness Years.” Based, like the previous volumes, on one of the richest and most complete archives of modern British...

Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile...

From the Preface to this volume by editor Larry P. Arnn: “This 23rd volume of documents in the official biography of Winston Churchill is the last step in a journey that began 57 years ago, having been prepared for decades...

The new volume, the product of considerable research in the Churchill papers, the records of the British Government, and many private archives, takes Churchill’s story from the outbreak of the Second World War on 3 September 1939 to his emergence...

The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at...

Through the documents in these pages, Martin Gilbert takes the reader on a fascinating journey, covering a wide range of domestic and international problems. Churchill’s vivid personality is evident as each controversy unfolds-traced through private letters and secret Cabinet records....

In this “gripping account of catastrophic defeat” (Barry Strauss), a New York Times–bestselling historian charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle...

Ovid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found...

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying...

Prose Translation by: Robert Durling One of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators, Durling has at last completed his rendition of the third and final volume of Dante's masterful literary epic, The Divine Comedy Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of...

The Ever-Widening War deals with the dramatic events of 1941, during which the Second World War engulfed much of the world. When the year began, Britain stood alone against German dominance in Europe, facing massive air raids, the threat of...

Prose Translation by: Robert Durling In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the...

The immediacy, the profound sincerity of Petrarch's Italian poems conditioned their tremendous influence on contemporaries and later generations. His beloved, he calls Laura and reports only that she first saw her in the church of Santa Chiara on April 6,...

Through the documents in these pages, Martin Gilbert takes the reader on a fascinating journey, covering a wide range of domestic and international problems. Churchill’s vivid personality is evident as each controversy unfolds—traced through private letters and secret Cabinet records....