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...

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...

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....

Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled: All for the Best (1759); The Optimist (1762); and Optimism (1947). It...

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...

Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of...

Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers...

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...

This volume of The Churchill Documents tells Churchill’s story from 1922 to 1929. Based on one of the richest archives of modern British history, it deals both with Churchill’s personal and political life and with the political and international scene...

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,...

“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the...

Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639–99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a princess’s absolute submission to her...

"Previous to this monograph, as far as I know, no Civil War historian has examined in depth the contributions of a norther college in the War Between the States. Hillsdale College played active political, military, and abolitionist roles in the...

Here, in his own words, are the fascinating first thirty years in the life of one of the most provocative and compelling leaders of the twentieth century: Winston Churchill.As a visionary, statesman, and historian, and the most eloquent spokesman against...

Using scholarship that often crackles with controversy, historian Arlan Gilbert explains why -- since its founding on the western frontier -- Hillsdale College has symbolized freedom and independence while steadfastly reflecting the values of heartland America. By his extensive use...

"Of the generations who followed the Founders, some who would prove the most indispensable to the survival of the Republic down to our own time were its leaders in education. Of these, Ransom Dunn, while not among the most famous,...

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, has no academic defenders. He is almost universally regarded by historians as a fit object for denunciation and ridicule. According to the conventional...

A Protestant republic In recent years, America’s status as a “Christian nation” has become an incredibly vexed question. This is not simply a debate about America’s present, or even its future–it has become a debate about its past. Some want...