In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone.

The two days of discussion preserved here demonstrate the continuing vitality and relevance of Isaiah Berlin's thought in today's social and political debates.

The great critic's masterwork makes a case for the necessity of the imaginative works in a society ever more worshipful of the liberal ideals of rationality and progress.

Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote.

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature.

Love's Work is at once a memoir and a book of philosophy.

An invaluable source for anyone lucky enough to have a Mediterranean garden: more than 300 plants, trees and cacti in addition to some innovative garden design ideas.

Jules Renard's Nature Stories is a deliciously whimsical classic from the era of the great French Postimpressionist painters.

The writings of a secretive eighteenth-century French thinker who left an unpublished masterpiece behind.

Joseph Kerman examines the ongoing vitality of the classical music tradition, and argues that the recent upsurge of interest in opera is proof of an extremely invigorating and healthy art form.