More than a gathering of essays, "That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration" is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written....

Published here for the first time, the "Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections" presents an exhaustive assemblage of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume features sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of whi...

In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey", is a...

Not for sale in Estonia! Best remembered today for his brilliant study of early German cinema, "From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological Study of the German Film", and for his involvement with the Frankfurt School (he mentored Theodor Adorno), Sieg...

Not for sale in Estonia! "The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets" brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. "The Stairway to the Sun" contains four...

April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday and then a series of transfers of power, April 30 was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would forever define global...

Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's master writer, and extraordinary conversationalist, discusses in the first volume of the remarkable new series, "Conversations".  The eighty-four-y...

This action-packed adventure established the classic pirate story as it was written for more than a century afterward, and it made the literary reputation of its young author, Robert Louis Stevenson.

Published in 1876, this book has delighted generations of readers.

At Thornfield Hall, resolute and independent Jane Eyre finds fulfillment in her duties as governess and the love of her life in her employer Edward Rochester. But when a dark secret from Rochester's past comes to light, Jane must make the most diffic...