A stunning version of the beloved fairy tale about a princess doomed to sleep for 100 years, until a handsome prince wakes her with a kiss. Beautifully illustrated, Silver Penny Stories are sure to find a cherished place in any familys collection. Th...

A tin soldier falls hopelessly in love with a paper ballerina in this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story. Beautifully illustrated, Silver Penny Stories are sure to find a cherished place in any familys collection. These classic tale...

Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination – one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream bec...

This lively book tells a story never told before: the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to...

The poems collected in "No Tear is Commonplace" stage a passionate, curious, and often combative relationship with the world and the forces that shape human life and death. Stanley Moss's range is wide: his poetry recalls the "Adirondack wilderness"...

Beginning with the real-life encounter between the poet John Clare and a Gypsy named Wisdom Smith, David Morley reinvigorates the sonnet sequence to stage the fellowship that develops between the two men. We see the Gypsy and the poet banter, argue a...

The liturgical psalter is one of the most important medieval Christian books and the most frequently and richly illuminated of medieval liturgical manuscripts. In its simplest form the psalter included 150 psalms, preceded by a calendar and followed...

Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book a...

At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London, New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever greater numbers. But it was not just the advent of mass printing that created the era's "bookish" culture. According to...

"Hollywood & God" is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing – even lurid – hallucination. From the "Baltimore Catechism" to the great noir films of t...