Wailing ghost

These delightful miniature tales of macabre hauntings, monsters and magic tricks are Classic China's greatest stories.

A modest proposal

Swift's ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland

Three tang dynasty poets

Pastoral, lyrical verse evoking the rural landscapes and peoples of eight-century China from three of its finest poets

Woman much missed

Moving, elegiac verse set in rural landscapes, penned by the grief-stricken Hardy after his wife's death.

The eve of st agnes

The Romantic poet's most lyrical, enchanting verse on myth, sensuality, dreams and superstition.

How to use your enemy

A seventeenth-century Spanish priest's shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world

A cup of sake beneath the cherry trees

Moonlight, spring blossom, a woman's hair - a medieval Japanese monk reflects on idle moments and life's fleeting joy.

On the beach at night alone

The visionary nineteenth-century American poet celebrates nature and the human spirit in these verses from Leaves of Grass

The doorman

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781250437921

Collation

388 p. ; 22 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 PAV t

The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful …