Literature
![The Deorhord](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691260006.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called “a marvelous book”
![Literary Journeys](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691266398.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred years
![The Wordhord](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691237183.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers
![Leon Battista Alberti](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691174723.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture
![On Czeslaw Milosz](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691212692.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czesław Miłosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman
![One Soul We Divided](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691208114.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
The first book-length selection from the extraordinary unpublished diary of the late-Victorian writer “Michael Field”—the pen name of two female coauthors and romantic partners
![The Chapter](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691135199.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today
![Surreal Spaces](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691254487.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived
![Fool](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691250168.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
The first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age
![American Classicist](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691236186.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world
![Henry at Work](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691244693.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful
![Rescuing Socrates](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691200392.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds
![Dweller in Shadows](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691212784.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum
![Three Roads Back](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691224305.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought
![The Mind in Exile](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691201641.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States
![On Seamus Heaney](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691234045.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer
![Up from the Depths](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691236957.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis
![The Passion Projects](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691259260.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history
![American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691249858.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacy
![Reading It Wrong](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691170688.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation—and how this still shapes the way we read
![Soul and Substance](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691245966.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright
![Impermanent Blackness](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691211909.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s
![Pleasure and Efficacy](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691243931.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period
![Coral Lives](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691240091.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A literary and cultural history of coral—as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor
![The Forest](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691244280.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States
“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News
![The Wife of Bath](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691206035.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo
![Thoreau's Axe](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691214771.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
How nineteenth-century “disciplines of attention” anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being “spiritual but not religious”
![A Vertical Art](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691233109.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry today
![Chains of Love and Beauty](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691203447.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as “Michael Field”—and who were partners and lovers for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literature
![Celestial Aspirations](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691197869.jpg?w=180&auto=format)
A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists