Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publica ... 続きを読む

Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.' First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a ... 続きを読む

Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams wa ... 続きを読む

'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). &n ... 続きを読む

Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answe ... 続きを読む

Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama exten ... 続きを読む

For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious. ... 続きを読む

This is the first unabridged verse translation of Book One of the Masnavi for more than a hundred years. Skilfully rendered in rhyming couplets, the translation is an attractive and faith ... 続きを読む

ユーモアは人間生活にとって普遍的な特徴です。「優越理論」や「不調和理論」などユーモアを語るうえで欠かせない主要理論を取り上げ、感情および認知との関連、倫理的課題との関連、社会を構築するうえでの意義との関連などを探りつつ、ユーモアの本質と価値について検証します。人間社会にとって欠かすことのできないユーモアの、はかりしれない意義を再評価する一冊です。      ... 続きを読む

共産主義の崩壊は、20世紀における最も象徴的な出来事のひとつです。本書はイデオロギーとしての共産主義の政治、経済、社会構造の背景にある歴史を、マルクス、レーニン、スターリン、毛沢東など、中心的存在を取り上げながら、マルクスの時代、ロシア革命、そして1989年から1991年にかけて起きたソ連型社会主義の崩壊までを解説します。     Considers the theo ... 続きを読む