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Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265?1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The…

Blake Bailey's A Tragic Honesty is the first biography of acclaimed American novelist and story writer Richard Yates

Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed…

A companion to the work of one of the most admired of English writers and artists.

In this new edition Blake gives a personal account of his professional experience of working with children and adolescents over the last 45 years. Providing a wonderful integration of the conceptual and the practical,…

 To this day, mention the name 'Andy Warhol' to almost anyone and you'll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol's name and dominated the public's…

Jimi Blake has spent the last 25 years discovering stand-out plants which he grows in dynamic and innovative ways at the fabulous Hunting Brook Gardens.

As we ?walk the garden? in this absorbing book it?s…

This textbook surveys the major advances in the heavenly sciences from Isfahan, Maragha and Samarqand. It looks at the development of astronomy and astrology in the Islamic world from the 9th to the 17th century, and…

Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a variety of diverse…

'Fascinating, rich, and probing . . . a beguiling and endlessly interesting portrait'--The Wall Street Journal

For fans of John le Carr and Ben Macintyre, an exclusive…

The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his--or any--age

To this day, mention the name 'Andy Warhol' to almost anyone and…

John Cheever was one of the foremost chroniclers of post-war America, a peerless writer who on his death in 1982 left some of the best short stories of the twentieth century, a number of highly acclaimed novels, and a…