Henri Bergson 
Le Rire 
Essai sur la signification du comique

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a ’Heavenly voice’ told her ’There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

_______________ ”[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing” – The Time …

This is surely the most extraordinary book on food and eating ever published in the English language. Miss Pennell, who was a correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette at the height of its amusement an …

The Punjab region of India sent more than 600, 000 combatants to assist the British war effort during World War I. Their families back home, thousands of miles from the major scenes of battle, were …

”Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor”s study could destroy a c …

An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey was the final book written by Richard Brautigan before his death in 1984 and lay unpublished for sixteen years.Originally written in the 160 pages of a …

This critical, multi-volume edition of Mao”s writings is an indispensable guide to post-1949 Chinese politics and an invaluable research tool for anyone seeking to understand Communist rule in …

Walter the Chancellor”s vivid first-hand account of the wars between the Muslims and the principality of Antioch in the early 12th century describes a less well-known period in the history of the …

A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine”s past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a …

Stimulated by new editions of Shelley”s writings and the evidence of notebooks, the editors have assembled an outstanding group of international Shelley scholars to work through the implications of …