Only a few popular autobiographies existed before philosopher, author, and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his Confessions. Rousseau wrote treatises on education and politics as well as novels and operas, and as one of the most influential and controversial of the Enlightenment thinkers, he inspired the leaders of the French Revolution. His memoir is regarded as the first modern autobiography, in which the writer defined his life mainly in...

Ibsen's three dramas probe the actions and emotions of characters trapped by psychological, moral, and social conflicts.

An accurate and readable version of Bede's work in modern English where "we realize even more clearly that the past is not dead and done with, but a force to be reckoned with, silently moulding the present and the future." [Introduction].

"A grim prophecy of the Russian revolution ... [A] story of Russian terrorists plotting violence and destruction, only to murder one of their own number."--Page 4 of cover.

"Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the...