Abrams: 1969 books
The Idea of Europe
An Essay
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The Idea of Europe finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles. “Europe,? he writes, “is the place where Goethe’s garden almost borders on Buchenwald, where the house of Corneille abuts on the market-place in which Joan of Arc was hideously done to death.? It...
Hans Christian Andersen
A New Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
“Andersen provides a fascinating backdrop for the life of the acclaimed fairy tale writer . . . a budding genius placed in the context of his time.” —Publishers Weekly
Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist...
by David Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The “gripping” true story of the founder of psychoanalysis—and how he made it out of Austria after the Nazi takeover (The Independent).
Sigmund Freud was not a practicing Jew, but that made no difference to the Nazis as they burned his books in the early 1930s. Goebbels and Himmler wanted...
Whisperers
The Secret History of the Spirit World
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
“From the hair-raising to the eyebrow-raising, this is a scintillating account of meetings with spirits through history” (Mark Booth, New York Times–bestselling author).
It may seem incredible, but as bestselling novelist and occult expert J.H. Brennan reveals in this eye-opening new...
Miss Julie
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Against a glittering jazz-age backdrop, mistress of the house Julie and ambitious servant John face off in a gripping, night-long encounter. As the balance of power shifts often and dangerously—-sometimes with exquisite subtlety, sometimes stark brutality-—LaBute masterfully reinterprets Strindberg’s...
Letters to My Mother
A Message of Love, A Plea for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family.
Kidnapped...
Reporting America
The Life of the Nation 1946–2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Over fifty years of reportage from one of the twentieth-century’s greatest broadcasters, showcasing his “masterly discursive approach and splendid humor” (The Independent).
Reporting America is a fascinating account of history in the making. His beloved radio show, Letter From America, saw...
David & Winston
How the Friendship Between Lloyd George and Churchill Changed the Course of History
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Both were outsiders. Neither attended university. Above all, both loved political sparring—often together, in the epic parliamentary battles of the start of the century. Theirs was a deeply personal friendship. Their real shared passion, however, was politics. For ten years between 1904 and 1914...
Our Woman in Havana
A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird’s-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations...
Washington Journal
Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Re-issued forty years after the tumultuous events that led to Richard Nixon’s historic downfall, a new edition of the legendary Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal, featuring a brilliant new afterword. Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal...
Traitor to the Crown
The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
“The meticulousness of the Longs’ research is awesome” in this historical account of the plot to brand a British naval official as a Catholic traitor (The Guardian).
1679, England: Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism have provoked panic in politicians and a zealous reaction from...
Night & Horses & The Desert
An Anthology of Classic Arabic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject. Robert Irwin has selected a wide range of Arabic poetry and prose in translation, from...
Cemetery John
The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In this meticulous and authoritative account of the trial and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices--including the mastermind--he presents the clearest...
by Paul Cartledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
The Spartans is a compelling narrative that explores the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, by the world's leading expert in the field. Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia--a remarkably evolved society whose warrior...