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ubén darÍo
1867 – 1916, nicaraguan
Selected Writings
Translated by Andrew Hurley, Greg Simon,
and Stephen F. White, Edited with an
Introduction by Ilan Stavans
A unique and comprehensive anthology of
the influential Nicaraguan writer, whose
pioneering work made Latin American
literature modern.
736 pp. 978-0-14-303936-5 $16.00
Charles darWin
1809 – 1882, english
The Portable Darwin
Edited with an Introduction by
Duncan M. Porter and Peter W. Graham
This essential collection includes selections
from The Origin of Species, The Voyage
of the Beagle, and The Descent of Man, as
well as many of Darwin’s scientific papers,
travel writings, letters, and a family
memorial.
592 pp. 978-0-14-015109-1 $17.00
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Autobiographies
Edited by Michael Neve and Sharon
Messenger with an Introduction by
Michael Neve
Comprising a fragment Darwin wrote
at the age of twenty-nine and the longer
“Recollections” written in his later years,
Autobiographies shows the great scientist
weighing his career and private life in an
engaging and revealing self-portrait.
112 pp. 978-0-14-043390-6 $12.00
The Descent of Man
Edited with an Introduction by
James Moore and Adrian Desmond
Darwin’s provocative book on human
evolution notoriously put apes in our
family tree and made the races one family,
diversified by “sexual selection.” Though
less well known than its predecessor The
Origin of Species, this work continues to
shape the way we think about what makes
us uniquely human.
864 pp. 978-0-14-043631-0 $17.00
Charles darWin
Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury in 1809 and was educated at
Edinburgh University and Christ’s College Cambridge. He took his degree in
1831 and in the same year embarked on a five-year voyage on HMS Beagle as a
companion to the captain. Some of his letters on scientific matters were privately
published, and on his return he at once took his place among the leading men of
science. In 1839 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Most of the rest of
his life was occupied in publishing the findings of the voyage and in documenting
his theory of the transmutation of species: On the Origin of Species by Means
of Natural Selection appeared in 1859. Darwin spent many years with his wife,
Emma Wedgwood, and their children at Down House in Kent. He died in 1882,
and was buried in Westminster Abbey.