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  The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche

  This volume contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth century.…

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  Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings

  This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the…

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  Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Dialogues in Epistemology

  Tell Me Something I Don’t Know is a collection of original dialogues in epistemology, suitable for student readers but also of interest to experts. Familiar…

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  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

  Published in the bicentenary year of Frederick Douglass’s birth and in a Black Lives Matter era, this edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick…

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  Iola Leroy

  Frances Harper’s fourth novel follows the life of the beautiful, light-skinned Iola Leroy to tell the story of black families in slavery, during the Civil…

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  The Lais of Marie de France

  Composed in French in twelfth-century England, these twelve brief verse narratives center on the joys, sorrows, and complications of love affairs in a context that…

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  Writing Wrongs

  Writing Wrongs is a concise and thoughtful guide to common errors in English. It covers frequently confused and misused words along with problems of grammar,…

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  Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essayist, lecturer, poet, and America’s first “public intellectual,” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) is the central figure in nineteenth-century American letters and the leader (albeit reluctantly)…

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  This Language, A River

  This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts.…

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  A Marriage Below Zero

  A Marriage Below Zero is the first novel in English to explicitly explore the subject of male homosexuality. Written by a British émigré to America,…

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  Tender Buttons

  The first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book’s effect on readers as “something like terror, there are no known precedents to cling to.” Written…

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  The Digby Play of Mary Magdalene

  Few medieval plays in English have attracted as much twenty-first-century interest as the Digby Mary Magdalene, an early-fifteenth-century drama that, as Chester Scoville puts it,…