This "gorgeously written" National Book Award finalist is a dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past (NPR, One of the Best Books ...

Listings of Scottish emigrants, either as immigrants or as residents in the Americas, including Canada, the USA, the West Indies and South America.

This book is the first to consider the representations of the effects of political terror and survival in contemporary literature from Northeast India.

In the first Cold War (1945-55) the superpower struggle over the geostrategically vital and economically depressed Austria could have ended in a divided country (like in Germany), but due to shrewd Austrian diplomacy resulted in a unified ...

I'd read this fascinating book for the sheer fun of it, even without any recipes-but oh, the recipes!"—Fran McCullough, editor of the Best American Recipes series

Serial philanderer. Alexandre Dumas lived an extraordinary life. Who better to tell his story than the man himself? In this first volume of his memoirs, Dumas recounts his early life, from his first memories through to his teenage years.

This is a fairly measured judgment, for a work the caliber of Narcissus would certainly not bolster Rousseau's status. The plot, characters, language, and comedic elements come off as weak or incomplete.

This book provides a nuanced exploration of a pivotal moment in Jewish intellectual history, offering valuable insights into the challenges and triumphs of the Haskalah movement in Russia.