A comprehensive and accessible overview of the economic history of Latin America over the two cen...

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Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's co...

'You can leave a forest, but you can never leave a cloister; you are free in the forest, but you ...

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of f...

This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 18...

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to i...

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Alexandre Dumas's novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbr...