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  Mrs. Spring Fragrance

  Among the first works of fiction in English by a North American writer of Asian descent, the stories collected in Mrs. Spring Fragrance present a…

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  An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

  Over a series of elegantly written, engaging essays, the Enquiry examines the experiential and psychological sources of meaning and knowledge, the foundations of reasoning about…

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  Suicide

  Suicide was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012! Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions is a provocative and comprehensive investigation of the main philosophical…

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  Travels through France and Italy

  Tobias Smollett travelled through Europe with his wife in 1763-65 in a journey designed to recover his mental and physical health after the death of…

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  The Age of Reason

  The Age of Reason is one of the most influential defences of Deism (the idea that God can be known without organized religion) ever written.…

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  The Coquette and The Boarding School

  Hannah Webster Foster based The Coquette on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, an unmarried woman who died in childbirth in New England. Fictionalizing Whitman’s…

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  Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

  This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth…

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  The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

  The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph was hugely popular in circulating libraries in the years after its publication, and its emotional intensity was often remarked…

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  What Should I Believe?

  This book is unique in its treatment of critical thinking not as a body of knowledge but instead as a subject for critical reflection. The…

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  Peter Pan

  For twenty-six years after his first mention of the character, J.M. Barrie worked on the story of Peter Pan as he appeared through different incarnations:…

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  The Awakening and Other Writings

  Critically acclaimed as Kate Chopin’s most influential work of fiction, The Awakening has assumed a place in the American literary canon. This new edition places…

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  The Immorality of Punishment

  In The Immorality of Punishment Michael Zimmerman argues forcefully that not only our current practice but indeed any practice of legal punishment is deeply morally…