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A historical novel set in the early 1600s based on the life of Juan de Pareja, the black assistant to the Spanish painter Velazquez. In Spanish.

In 1952, soon after her arrival in Brazil, Elizabeth Bishop asked her new Brazilian friends which of their country's books she should read. They recommended Minha Vida de Menina - a diary kept by a young girl who lived in a mining town at the end of the nineteenth century. As a labor of love, Elizabeth Bishop devoted three years to translating the diary, a delightful account of a young girl's life in Brazil.

Edmund Wilson has written a new introduction to his classic study of the modern conception of history in the West, and has restored the appendices which appeared in the first edition of 1940 but were dropped from subsequent editions. The book takes its title from the scene of Lenin's arrival from Germany in April 1917, ready to take over the leadership of the Russian Revolution and in doing so bring to a climax the political and intellectual m...

In this highly praised and widely debated book, America's leading dissident intellectual offers a revelatory portrait of the American empire and the danger it poses for democracy, both at home and abroad. Chomsky details the major shift in global politics and economic potency and reveals the potentially catastrophic consequences of this new imbalance.

This "tour de force of analysis" (Joel Agee) examines the life and work of the prolific, visionary writer, painter and critic. Kemp finds in Ruskin's life -- which spanned the same years as Queen Victoria's and thus embodied the Victorian era itself -- a faithful mirror of the history and psychological evolution of his age.

When Carl is told to mind the baby at a department store, the faithful Rottweiler and his little friend do some mischievous exploring.

In a powerful challenge to the belief that the Constitution has nothing to do with the individual freedoms that comprise family rights, Davis argues here that the constitutional amendments after the Civil War reflect a profound appreciation of the political, social, and personal worth of family autonomy.

Objective, well reasoned, highly stimulating in portraying Lincoln and the torments that destiny imposed on him." -Earl Schenck Miers "Richard N. Current's book is a brisk, expert, and judicious summary of what we do not know [of Lincoln] or cannot get agreement upon . . . He reviews the arguments with acumen, lucidity, and balance." --"Mississippi Valley Historical Review

A novel of love and violence set against the sensual world of 17th century India based around the life of the Emperor Shah Jahan.

Through the persona of Cora Fry, a wife and mother living in a small New Hampshire town, Rosellen Brown explores the ambivalent ties of love, loyalty, marriage, and family in a series of related poems. This volume includes the entire text of "Cora Fry "(1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in spare, simple lines, which describes the young woman’s daily life and troubled marriage. A sequel of newer poems, "Cora Fry’s Pillow Book" (1994)...

This is the first anthology of the great "peasant poet's" remarkable verse that makes available the full range of his accomplishments. Here are the different Clares that have beguiled readers for two centuries.

In this book, Wilhelm Reich summarizes the criticism of the prevailing sexual conditions and conflicts as it resulted from his sex-economic medical experiences over a period of years.