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Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

A masterfully lyrical translation of the complete Commedia that brings Dante’s famous terza rima to contemporary readers [lees verder]

Aeneid

Virgil

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom [lees verder]

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Radical Duke

Danielle Allen

An explosive, deeply revisionist work that reveals how a renegade English Duke and Thomas Paine, the firebrand polemicist, almost brought the American Revolution to Britain [lees verder]

Thomas Jefferson Survives

Peter S. Onuf
Francis D. Cogliano

On the 250th anniversary of his greatest achievement, two leading historians take on the question, “Does Thomas Jefferson still matter?” [lees verder]

Wreck of the Mentor

Eric Jay Dolin

An astonishing true story–one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century–told by our era’s “expert literary steersman” (The Washington Post) [lees verder]

Newcomers

Alan Mikhail

The exceptional tale of an unorthodox, seventeenth-century married couple whose rags-to-riches story fundamentally rewrites our knowledge of American history at its very beginnings [lees verder]

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Stealing America

Linford D. Fisher

Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize 2026 Epic and groundbreaking, Stealing America boldly rewrites American history by putting Native enslavement and rampant land theft at the epicentre of … [lees verder]

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Canzoniere

Petrarch

The iconic Renaissance songbook–an inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth century–in an elegant, fluid and inviting translation [lees verder]