Chronicles the life of nineteenth-century American horror and mystery author Edgar Allan Poe, and describes Poe's difficult childhood, personal relationships, vices, and literary accomplishments.
Chronicles the history of London, providing information on every aspect of London's society, government, people, natural history, laws, towns, architecture, and influence on world history.
A prose translation of the fourteenth-century poem seeks to retain Chaucer's vigorous and bawdy style while rendering its contents more accessible to modern readers, in a version that emphasizes the humanity of key characters.
Chronicles humans' journey into space, profiling scientists and astronauts who made key contributions to space exploration, describing the technology that took man into space, and speculating as to what advances might be made in the future.
A retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel that describes Victor Frankenstein's meeting with the radical atheist and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at Oxford and recruiting "resurrection men" to deliver fresh bodies to secret laboratory, where the monster is created.
Presents a biography of William Shakespeare, the great Elizabethan playwright and poet, set against the background of the historic time in which he lived.
