This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day – the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums – and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronologica...

In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assumin...

Muriel Spark always regarded the Brontes with a novelist's eye. As Boyd Tonkin argues in his lively introduction, written for the new edition, the Brontes inspired Spark at the very beginning of her own career, but not in a straightforward way. Throu...

<p>In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different...

"Euripides I" contains the plays "Alcestis", translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Medea", translated by Oliver Taplin; "The Children of Heracles", translated by Mark Griffith; and "Hippolytus", translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University...

"Euripides II" contains the plays "Andromache", translated by Deborah Roberts; "Hecuba", translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Suppliant Women", translated by Frank William Jones; and "Electra", translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule. Sixty years ago...

"Euripides III" contains the plays "Heracles", translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Trojan Women", translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Iphigenia among the Taurians", translated by Anne Carson; and "Ion", translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts. Sixt...

"Euripides IV" contains the plays "Helen", translated by Richmond Lattimore; "The Phoenician Women", translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and "Orestes", translated by William Arrowsmith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a moment...

"Euripides V" includes the plays "The Bacchae", translated by William Arrowsmith; "Iphigenia in Aulis", translated by Charles R. Walker; "The Cyclops", translated by William Arrowsmith; and "Rhesus", translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago,...

An actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as "chanson", "phantasime", or "quaestor", many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. "The Eloquent Shakespeare" aims to untie those tongues a...