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The Talmud
A Selection
Translated with an Introduction and
Commentary by Norman Solomon
One of the most significant religious texts
in the world, The Talmud is a compilation
of the teachings of major Jewish scholars
from the classic period of rabbinic
Judaism. This lucid translation of its most
illuminating passages makes accessible to
modern readers the centuries of Jewish
thought contained within.
896 pp. 978-0-14-144178-8 $16.00
Three Gothic Novels
Edited by Peter Fairclough with an
Introduction by Mario Praz
Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto,
published in 1765, is the prototype of
all Gothic novels; William Beckford’s
Vathek combines Gothic romanticism with
Oriental exoticism; and Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein is a masterpiece of Gothic
horror.
512 pp. 978-0-14-043036-3 $13.00
See Mary Shelley and Horace Walpole.
Three Revenge Tragedies
Edited with an Introduction by
Gāmini Salgādo
From the early seventeenth century,
three of the finest examples of Jacobean
revenge tragedy make up this collection:
The White Devil by John Webster, The
Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur, and
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and
William Rowley.
368 pp. 978-0-14-144124-5 $14.00
Women’s Early American
Historical Narratives
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Sharon M. Harris
In America’s early decades many women
began to write historical analysis, taking
on an essential role in defining the
new Republicanism. Like their male
counterparts, they worried over the
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meaning and practice of public and
private virtue, human equality, and the
principles of rationalism. But, conscious
of being women historians, they also
inevitably wrote of the inequality of the
sexes.
400 pp. 978-0-14-243710-0 $15.00
Women’s Indian Captivity Narratives
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
Enthralling generations of readers,
the narrative of capture by Native
Americans is an archetype of American
literature. Most such narratives were
fact-based, but the stories themselves
were often transformed into spiritual
autobiographies, spellbinding adventure
stories, sentimental tales, or anti-Indian
propaganda. The ten complete narratives
here span two hundred years (1682–1892),
and depict the experiences of women such
as Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dunstan,
Sarah Wakefield, and Mary Jemison.
224 pp. 978-0-14-043671-6 $15.00
See Colonial American Travel Narratives.
Women Who Did
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Angelique Richardson
Daring and dynamic, the “new woman”
came to represent the very spirit of an
age in flux. Featuring work by authors
as diverse as Kate Chopin and Oscar
Wilde, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and
Thomas Hardy, this anthology looks at
society through the eyes of women as they
encountered new choices in marriage,
motherhood, work, and love.
528 pp. 978-0-14-144156-6 $15.00
See Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
Thomas Hardy, and Oscar Wilde.