Product Description: This innovative new study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen, and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is set in a classical and European context as the center for "the good life" and the pinnacle of "civilization...read more

Product Description: Only fragments of historical text from China's middle period have been translated into English, until now. Here at last is the first major Chinese historical work from the Song dynasty. Written by Ouyang Xiu, an intellectual giant of the eleventh century, this is a history of the preceding century (907--979), a period known as the Five Dynasties...read more

Product Description: Sarah Fielding was the sister of Henry Fielding and a close friend of Samuel Richardson. She shares much of her brother's wit and irony, but it was primarily for her psychological penetration that her work was praised. This edition of her first novel reprints the text that was substantially revised, and prefaced, by her brother...read more