Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...

First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dinin...

A fun, charming romp through the history of seventeen great writers and the cats who captured the...

A new kind of biography on Jane Austen examining the objects she encountered during her life alon...

Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart...

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set ...

A stunning gift edition of Washington Irving's quintessential Halloween story.

An exploration of a significant art: type designing.

The fascinating commercial history of the Bible's first English printings.

The story of how an Oxford student group's message of pacifism shocked the world at the onset of ...

A collection of thirteen bone-chilling tales from some of history's masters of horror.

A gorgeously illustrated, centuries-spanning journey through the pages of some of history's most ...

How Britain sought to inspire and empower democratic ideals among their servicemen in the afterma...

A charming collection of bite-sized readings for the bookworm on the go.

A beautiful poetry collection that celebrates life's moments of silence.

The incredible stories of the British and German climbers and their death-defying attempts to sum...

An illuminating cultural history of the Cinderella tale.

A stunningly illustrated compendium of wondrous tales from Celtic mythology.

A stunning reproduction of the Bayeux Tapestry, transcribed and translated for today's readers.

Linguist David Crystal's absorbing journey through the origins of seasonal English words and phra...