"Fate cut off earl his beneficent activities as researcher and teacher; let us, however, uphold his example and his works!" Albert Einstein
Life of a Poet is devoted to the careful reenactment of the difficult relationship between Rilke's life and his art. In this outstanding biography, Ralph Freedman traces Rilke's extraordinary career b...
Marie Curie tells the story of the discoverer of radium, from her childhoodin Warsaw, to her experiments with radioactivity in Paris, to herrecognition as one of the preeminent scientists of her time....
The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia. Among t...