Joseph Clark Hoppin 
A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases 
Signed by or Attributed to the Various Masters of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries

The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a ‘capacious hold-all’ for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self. Focusing on the di …

A literary tour-de-force of power, guilt and obsession – two people stalk each other through the shadowy, tangled web of the past – man and woman caught in a dangerous game of confession, each partly …

“Dear Millie, I am writing you this letter in the hope that life has afforded you the opportunity to grow old enough to read it…” So starts the most extraordinary diary about a seven-year-old girl …

The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their …

This hitherto unpublished first-hand witness account, written in 1968-9, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet …

First published in 1967. This journal is a copy of the narrated manuscript of Captain Cook’s last voyage of discovery into the Pacific Ocean. It spans from 1776 to 1779 and includes illustrations and …

In 1921, a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary, she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a full translation of these records, but also …

The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative …