Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley

For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read 2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For th...

The English and their History

Robert Tombs

The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining natio...