Book Review: The Annotated Poe
/A sumptuously illustrated and annotated new edition of the classic short works of Edgar Allan Poe
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A sumptuously illustrated and annotated new edition of the classic short works of Edgar Allan Poe
Read MoreLisa Jardine
Read MoreA slim and intensely good new history of King John and the creation of the Great Charter
Read MoreMaureen O'Hara
Read MoreNovelist Julian Barnes takes readers on a tour of some of his favorite French artists
Read MoreA wonderful new book details the raucous past - and the complicated, vibrant present - of the public library in the United States
Read MoreA gorgeously-illustrated new book looks at the long and gaudy history of life on Earth
Read MoreA forensic and often quite moving new history of the last, desperate days of the Third Reich
Read MoreA new book brings to life the experiences of ordinary Germans during the Second World War
Read MoreAn ambitious new work of history charts the rise to victory of Nazi Germany - and deflates a few treasured myths along the way
Read MoreA new anthology looks at the rich, creepy atmosphere that gave rise to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe - and then was dominated by him as by no other author
Read MoreThe great Persian King Xerxes gets a wonderfully sharp and detailed biography for Western readers
Read MoreWhile a young Winston Churchill was making history during the waning years of the Victorian Empire, he was also reporting on himself making history during the waning years of the Victorian Empire. A new book tells the old story.
Read MoreOn the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a spirited new biography looks at King John
Read MoreA new book looks at one tumultuous year in the life of William Shakespeare
Read MoreIn the latest of David Weber's "Safehold" novels, Industrial-Age technology is coming to a quasi-Renaissance world, ready or not
Read MoreAn effective debut novel looks at the story of famous Cleopatra's much less-famous sisters
Read MoreThe first volume of Michael Broers' new Napoleon biography follows its famous subject from obscure Corsican boyhood to the stage of world-wide fame.
Read MoreA grand and jauntily mythological new volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winning Yusef Komunyakaa
Read MoreValeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth tells of the fantastical life of Gustavo "Highway" Sánchez Sánchez, the self-proclaimed best auctioneer in the world, and a great collector of teeth and their stories.
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