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Gegenstand des Jahrbuches Aufklärung« ist die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts und seiner Wirkungsgeschichte. Der Gedanke der erkenntnisfördernden Kraft der offenen, unparteiischen Diskussion war eine der wichtigsten Überzeugungen des Jahrhunderts. Es ist diese Grundhaltung der Aufklärung, die auch die Anlage des Jahrbuches bestimmt. Das Streben nach Interdisziplinarität war eine dominierende Tendenz und Ausdruck der Integrationskraft der Epoc...

Gegenstand des Jahrbuches Aufklärung« ist die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts und seiner Wirkungsgeschichte. Der Gedanke der erkenntnisfördernden Kraft der offenen, unparteiischen Diskussion war eine der wichtigsten Überzeugungen des Jahrhunderts. Es ist diese Grundhaltung der Aufklärung, die auch die Anlage des Jahrbuches bestimmt. Das Streben nach Interdisziplinarität war eine dominierende Tendenz und Ausdruck der Integrationskraft der Epoc...

Gegenstand des Jahrbuches Aufklärung« ist die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts und seiner Wirkungsgeschichte. Der Gedanke der erkenntnisfördernden Kraft der offenen, unparteiischen Diskussion war eine der wichtigsten Überzeugungen des Jahrhunderts. Es ist diese Grundhaltung der Aufklärung, die auch die Anlage des Jahrbuches bestimmt. Das Streben nach Interdisziplinarität war eine dominierende Tendenz und Ausdruck der Integrationskraft der Epoc...

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon's work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbindin...

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It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill, his promising son defies his father's ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first s...

Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive ...

At the center of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park is Fanny Price, the classic "poor cousin" who has been brought to live with the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scruples in dangerous flirtations (and worse), and as she herself resolu...

Russell Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. "Magical….He has taken such raw, potentially wrenching material and made of it a story so warm, so likable, and so disarmingly funny…a work of original biographical art."-The New York Times In this heartfelt memoir, groundbreaking Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Russell Baker traces his youth from the backwoods mountains of V...

A collection of essays and some related poems by almost 30 contemporary poets who have worked for years outside the "mainstream" of British publishing. Many are or have been small-press publishers and editors too.

Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attention to his startlingly alive autobiography. But the Confessions is also among the greatest self-portraits in world literature -which suggests, even ...

The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121-180) embodied in his person that deeply cherished, ideal figure of antiquity, the philosopher-king. His Meditations are not only one of the most important expressions of the Stoic philosophy of his time but also an enduringly inspiring guide to living a good and just life. Written in moments snatched from military campaigns and the rigors of politics, these ethical and spiritual reflections...

With a foreword by Oliver SacksShortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its thorough navigation of the world of blindness-a world in which stairs are safe and snow is frightening, where food and sex lose much of their allure and pl...

The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, The Virgin and the Gipsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels.Set in a small village in the English countryside, this is the story of a secluded, sensitive rector's daughter who yearns for meani...

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)The first great manifesto of women's rights, published in 1792 and an immediate best seller, made its author the toast of radical circles and the target of reactionary ones. Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly established the demand for women's emancipation in the context of the ever-widening urge for human rights and individual freedom that surrounded those tw...

The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination.

Facts alone are wanted in life." The children at Mr. Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. The effects of Gradgrind's teaching on his own children, Tom and Louisa, are particularly profound and leave them ill-equipped to deal with the unpredictable desires of the human heart. Luckily for them, they have a friend in Sissy Jupe, the child of a circus clown, who retains h...

Embraces not only the marvels of French cooking but French history, language, landscape, and customs as well. Here is France for the traveler, the chef, and the connoisseur of fine prose. Maps and b & w line drawings throughout.