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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 7
Volume 7: October 1, 1756 through March 31, 1758
The seventh volume concludes the first period of Franklin's public service in Pennsylvania, and takes him to England to begin his "second career," that of colonial agent. Problems of defense during the war with France,...
Volpone, or The Fox
Volpone, or “The Fox,” is one of Jonson’s most popular plays and through the years has been a favorite of both theater-goers and readers. Professor Kernan offers his own interpretation, in a critical introduction...
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 2, The History of King Richard III
Although it is generally accepted that More's Richard III initiates modern historical writing, there has been no scholarly edition of either the Latin of the English versions. The Yale St. Thomas More Project has now...
The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870
“It is now forty years,” Walter Houghton writes, “since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole.” Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
"The Idler" and "The Adventurer"
Two Early Tudor Lives
The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish; The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper
"The serious student of the era and the even larger number of enthusiastic admirers of the historical literature for that complex and challenging age will be profoundly grateful for this compact, modern version of two...
Beginning Japanese
Part 2
Beginning Japanese (Parts I and II) contains thirty-five lessons, all of which have the same basic pattern and involve the same procedures. Each lesson requires many hours of class work supplemented by outside study...
Concepts of Criticism
Provocative and penetrating, these essays attest to Mr. Wellek’s intense concern during the past two decades with the problems besetting the disciplines of literary theory, criticism, and history. Each essay accordingly sets...
Bartholomew Fair
Not as well known today as Volpne and The Alchemist, this comedy of London’s lower classes was a great favorite of Ben Jonson’s contemporaries. The richness of its comic invention and the complexity of its plot...
The Hidden God
Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren
The clarity of style for which Mr. Brooks has long been noted is displayed to advantage in this newest book of his criticism. Originally delivered as lectures at a faculty conference of people interested in theology, the...