The Ghost Map chronicles the outbreak's spread and the desperate efforts to put an end to the epidemic - and solve the most pressing medical riddle of the age."--BOOK JACKET.

Nicholas Frankel presents a revisionary account of Oscar Wilde’s final years, spent in poverty and exile in Europe following his release from an English prison for the crime of gross indecency between men.

This is an illuminating, fast-paced tale of history as it was written, stolen, lost, and—after 2,000 years, countless battles, fevered digs, conspiracies, and revelations—finally found. “Damrosch creates vivid portraits of ...

East Lynne Ellen Wood - East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs Henry Wood.

With its gripping narrative and profound themes, this novel is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the depths of human nature and society amidst tumultuous times.

This book is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the best study of the working class in Victorian England.

This is meticulous and laborious work that was always likely to be done only once, and so I, at least, am pleased that it was completed here with such unflagging attention."—Albert Pionke, William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of ...

Provides a new perspective for thinking about and reading autobiographical writing

In a groundbreaking book that challenges familiar narratives of discontinuity, disease-based demographic collapse, and acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends many deeply held assumptions about native peoples in North America.

After surveying England's evolving theories of representative politics and individual and collective secretive practices, Pionke traces the intersection of democracy and secrecy through a series of case histories.