"Antigua, Penny, Puce" (1937), a barbed tale of sibling rivalry, gave its title to a never-issued one penny puce-and-white stamp from Antigua with George VI's portrait on it and three puce pigs eating at a puce trough. Jane and Oliver are the sibling...

Taking his cue from an anecdote connected with Bach's late masterpiece, the "Goldberg Variations", Gabriel Josipovici imagines an English writer, a Jew, at the turn of the eighteenth century, who is invited to the house of a country gentleman in orde...

This is the seventh volume in the Carcanet's Eca de Queiros programme which includes "The Maias, Cousin Basilio", "The Illustrious House of Ramires", "The City and the Mountains", "The Sin of Father Amaro", "The Yellow Sofa & Three Portraits". Artu...

This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the nineteenth century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. John Henry Newman (1801-1891) was a dominant figure in both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic...

We don't know who, or even if, Homer was. Given threads of internal evidence in the "Odyssey", Robert Graves invents, or discovers, that the author of the poem was a woman, herself part of the epic action. He chooses the beguiling, clear-headed Nausi...

"Two Jews were traveling on a train..". Many Eastern European jokes – and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book – begin this way. From all regions of the world and from all walks of life, the characters are young and...

This volume contains original writing by deaf people from the first half of the nineteenth century, a period of transformation for deaf Americans that saw the rise of deaf education and the coalescence of the nation's deaf community. It begins with w...

Solemn, grand, vulnerable – and a little absurd: England in the 1880s. The gentry endures tedious country-bound winter weeks (fashion forbids them from showing their faces in London). Lord Beaconsfield is mourned, and a national legend buried. "The T...

Mycology, psycho-analysis, music, mythology, linguistics, Christianity, occultism, Majorca, esoterica... This book for the first time selects the best from the more than five hundred essays which Robert Graves wrote about areas of culture which engag...