Contains Shakespeare's play involving young Athenian lovers, a boisterous group of local tradesmen, and the monarchs and subjects of the fairy kingdom; and includes textual notes, scene-by-scene analyses, an introduction to Shakespeare's theater career, and a chronology of Shakespeare's works.

Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante's masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over others, rendering Inferno into contemporary American English while maintaining Dante's original triple rhyme scheme. The result is a translation that can be appreciated for its literal faithfulness and beautiful poetic form, accompanied by facing-page Italian and explanatory notes.

Anne Frank's diary is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century and one of the most beloved autobiographies of all time. The definitive edition, which restores a great deal of material not included in the original publication, deepends and broadens our sense of the remarkable young woman who composed it.

Six hundred years ago, the author survived the bubonic plague, which took the lives of three of his children, not to mention tens of millions of others throughout the medieval world. He reflects on the origins of plagues -- from those of the Prophet Muhammad's era to the Black Death of his own -- and what it means that such catastrophes could have been willed by God, while also chronicling the fear, isolation, scapegoating, economic tumult, political...