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

From the celebrated cultural historian and bestselling author, a provocative history of the evolu...

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 ...

In An Essay on French Verse-For Readers of English Poetry, Jacques Barzun addresses the baffling ...