Vowing to repair his relationships with his estranged adult children after learning he has Alzheimer's, Bill Warrington takes a cross-country drive with his teenage granddaughter and leaves clues inte
Vowing to repair his relationships with his estranged adult children after learning he has Alzheimer's, Bill Warrington takes a cross-country drive with his teenage granddaughter and leaves clues inte
Stephen King's short story “Secret Window, Secret Garden”—from the collectionFour Past Midnight—is now available from Encore at a great price.“Secret Window, Secret Garden” enters the suddenly strange
James VI and I united the crowns of England and Scotland. His books are fundamental sources of the principles which underlay the union. In particular, his Basilikon Doron was a best-seller in England and circulated widely on the Continent. Among the most important and influential British writings of their period, the king's works shed light on the political climate of Shakespeare's England and the intellectual background to the civil wars which afflicted Britain in the mid-seventeenth century. James' political philosophy was a moderated absolutism, with an emphasis on the monarch's duty to rule according to law and the public good. Locke quoted his speech to parliament of 1610 approvingly, and Hobbes likewise praised 'our most wise king'. This edition is the first to draw on all the early texts of James' books, with an introduction setting them in their historical context.
Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu overflows with brilliant, minutely described accounts of food and drink drawn from the author's vivid memories. After all, it w
