"I sat up most of the night reading and pondering the enormous significance of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig." -- Author Alice WalkerThis seminal autobiographical novel, originally published in 1859, is...

First published in German in 1909, Otto Rank's original The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyc...

This classic text, reprinted several times since its first publication in 1976, has been extensively revised in this new edition and includes new chapters on Henry V, As You Like It, and on 'the st...

It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that...

Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, an...

E-Myth \ 'e-, 'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs 2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical w...

QUICK FACTS NAME: Frances Hodgson Burnett OCCUPATION: Author, Playwright BIRTH DATE: November 24, 1849 DEATH DATE: October 29, 1924 PLACE OF BIRTH: Manchester, United Kingdom PLACE OF DEATH: Plando...