William Harnett's Curious Objects
Admired for his trompe l'oeil style, American painter William Harnett (1848-1892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was technically skilled. The first scholarly monograph on the artist, William Harnett's Curious Objects details Harnett's caree...
Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings
Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important ess...
Benedict Arnold's Army
A brilliant American combat officer and this country's most famous traitor, Benedict Arnold is one of the most fascinating and complicated people to emerge from American history. His contemporaries called him "the American Hannib...