Aby Warburg, the founder of a new Science of Culture, the scholar who gave back word to the image; a “militant” intellectual (so wrote Gertrud Bing), for whom no distinction exists between life and thought; pioneer of new research methods, inventing ‘machines’ of knowledge; architect of spaces designed as arenas of thought. The Library for the Science of Culture (transferred from Hamburg to London in 1933) and the Mnemosyne Atlas are the achievements to which the most substantial ...

The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual artsIn his search for a common link between literature and the visual arts, Mario Praz draws on the abundant evidence of mutual understanding and correspondence they have long shared. Praz explains that within literature, each epoch has “its peculiar handwriting or handwritings, which, if one could interpret them, would reveal a character, even a physical appearance,” and while these c...

The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings.This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with ...

The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series.A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.**Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton's historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution.'Completely immerses the reader in ...

Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the North of England, and subsequently to the Scottish Highlands, to collect a debt stolen from his father. On the way he encounters the larger-than-life title character, Rob Roy MacGregor.The story takes place just before the 1715 Jacobite Rising, with much of Scotland in turmoil. Frank Osbaldistone, the narrator, quarrels with his father and is ...

William Wordsworth helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, creating a diverse oeuvre of works that have influenced the course of poetry for over two centuries. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Wordsworth's complete works, with beautiful illustrations, Dorothy Wordsworth's journals and even more bonus material. (Version 3)* Beautifully illustrated with image...

"Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know", Lord Byron was a leading figure of the Romantic movement, infamous for his flamboyant lifestyle, yet incredibly influential in the diverse range of his accomplished verse. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of Lord Byron, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relat...

Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire". Modern critics generally consider it Byron's masterpiece. The poem is in eight line iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ab ab ab cc – often the last rhyming couplet is used for a humor comic line or humorous bathos. This rhyme scheme is kno...

The fifth of five collections containing the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe.

In "Zanoni," Edward Bulwer-Lytton intertwines the realms of mysticism and romance, delivering a narrative dense with philosophical inquiry and esoteric themes. Set against the backdrop of 18th-century Europe, the novel follows the eternal Rosicrucian, Zanoni, exploring the tension between personal enlightenment and societal constraints. Lytton's prose blends poetic elegance with the Gothic tradition, crafting a work that critiques materialism and celebrates the transcendent power of the hu...