The Real Tales of Hoffmann: Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece
Placido Domingo, Michael Kaye and Vincent Giroud
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Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history...
Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom
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Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life)...
Architecture in Archives: The Collection of the Academy of Arts
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The Akademie der Kunste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin has carried out its task of promoting the arts...
Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures
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Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures tells the dark and compelling stories of...
A Brief Guide to Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie's 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than...
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe and Biyi Bandele
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A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the...
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess and Andrew Bissell
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Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of...
The Collini Case
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Ferdinand von Schirach's The Collini Case has been at the top of the German charts since publication...
The Pale King
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The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance The...
Dear Reader
Paul Fournel, David Bellos and Jean Jullien
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Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues There's a lot of good to be said about publishing,...