This series collects together the best-known aphorisms, epigrams and reflections of a wide variety of figures from antiquity to our own age: humorists and novelists, poets and philosophers, politicians and playwrights.

A searing memoir of masculinity, violence, and brotherhood, Goat provides an unprecedented window into the emotional landscape of young men and introduces a writer of grace and power.

A History of Modern Turkey

A guide to Russia's literary landscape. Russian writers have always played a special role in the spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of their readers. This book reveals the warmth and energy with which their legacy is cherished. It takes the reader on a tour of sites of some of the most important scenes of Russian literature.

Offers a glimpse into the world of the Mexico's upper classes (using photographs), whose ostentatious lifestyles stand in contrast to the poverty that characterises life in Mexico outside their gated mansions. Many of the subjects covered in this book are related to members of the PRI, which calls itself a 'revolutionary' party.

On a deserted stretch of beach, a middle-aged couple relax after a picnic lunch and converse idly about home, family, and their life together. She sketches; he naps. Then, suddenly, they are joined by two sea creatures, a pair of lizards from the depths of the ocean, with whom they engage in a fascinating dialogue.

Contains eight plays written by Edward Albee during his first decade as a playwright, from 1958 through to 1965 such as: The Zoo Story , The Death of Bessie Smith , The Sandbox , The American Dream , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , The Ballad of the Sad Cafe , Malcolm , and, Tiny Alice .

The city of Paradys was a place of decadence and decay, of luxury and lasciviousness and, after the revolution, a graveyard peopled by the insane and the dead... and by those who preyed on both. For the land here was bound by a timeless, soul-chilling magic, and its power had cast a spell over all who had ever lived here.

Daniil Kharms was one of the most iconoclastic writers to emerge from the hotbed of the early Soviet avant garde. Kharms' uniquely deadpan style developed out of - and in spite of - the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia. This collection is suitable for readers of innovative writing.

Shows how wetland studies can be contextualised within geographical, cultural and theoretical frameworks. This book discusses how wetland archaeological discoveries can be understood in terms of past people's perception and understanding of landscape, which was not only a source of economic benefit, but a storehouse of cultural values and beliefs.

This authorized biography of the British writer Simon Raven draws on three sources to present a portrait of the artist: Raven's friends, his writings, and most vivid of all, his pithy, politically-incorrect conversation.

This text examines Greek sculpture in the fourth-century, a period of transition from the classical Athenian style to an array of styles found simultaneously in the Hellenistic diaspora. Included is a discussion of figural sculpture, funerary art and architectural sculpture.

This series collects together the best-known aphorisms, epigrams and reflections of a wide variety of figures from antiquity to our own age: humorists and novelists, poets and philosophers, politicians and playwrights.

The location of battles, precise troop-movements and the chronology of war in Tacitus' Histories have been analyzed elsewhere. This text adopts a literary approach to the Histories , exploring the way Tacitus portrays Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian and the general Antonius Primus.

A collection of essays that examines the role played by the literature and culture of classical antiquity in the various discourses that established, maintained or undermined the British empire. It investigates topics such as the intersections among nineteenth- and twentieth-century theories of the Greek, Roman and British empires.