Jacques Barzun's masterful translation proves that Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideasan acid...

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New studies of the great French composer by Jacques Barzun, David Cairns, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Hug...

A collection of essays commemorating Hector Berlioz's life and work on the 200th anniversary of h...

Toulmin überprüft in dieser Studie die These, daß die Wissenschaft ein Instrument sei, mit des...

A classic since its first edition in 1966, Modern American Usage has been called a book that 'eve...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

The House of Intellect embraces: persons who consciously and methodically employ the mind, the fo...

The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 yea...

A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledg...