Completing the 8 volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare series, this final volume contains Shakespeare's four Last Plays
- THE TEMPEST, PERICLES, THE WINTER'S TALE & CYMBELINE. The beautifully produced, single-column text of the plays, with the Signet footnotes, is supplemented with bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespear's life & times, & a substantial introduction in which Professor Tony Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in context.
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The winner of a 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, Romantic Affinities is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits from an era of tumultuous change in Europe as it was experienced & communicated by the writers of the age. These include not only the more familiar ' Romantic' figures, such as Coleridge & Shelley, Byron & Goethe, but also Chenier, H-lderlin, Hoffman, Madame de Sta-l, Pushkin & many others. Set against the background of the initial liberal dawning the French Revolution seemed to herald, the disillusion that set in after its descent into terror, & the decades of warfare that followed, Christiansen draws on a wealth of scholarship ranging over many related aspects of music, architecture, & politics as he presents fresh perspectives on poetry & prose long defined narrowly as Romanticism. ...

When the author, a wounded veteran of 21, arrived in Rome in 1944, the question most Italians asked him was: ' What took you so long?' What indeed? Were the Allied High Command to blame? Were the generals incompetent? Was the Anzio landing itself a tactical error? In 1956 Raleigh Trevelyan published, as The Fortress, the diaries he had surreptitiously kept in the Anzio trenches &, as a result, made contact with a number of Germans who had been only yards away from him twelve years earlier. Now that statesmen & generals have published their memoirs & official histories of the war have been written, it seems possible at long last to attempt an answer. This is a remarkable book, bringing together the skill & insight of an accomplished historian, the narrative drive of a gifted storyteller, & the rage & terror of a man experiencing at first hand the momentous events from Anzio to Monte Cassino & on to Rome. The reader follows the fate of the 'poor bloody infantry' on both sides of the line; sees a group of Romans adapting to the idea that the Germans are still there; penetrates the secrets of the Vatican; watches the Allied & German generals on the spot fight with their High Commands & hears what Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin thought about it at the time. ...

In 1875, a few years after Italian unification, General Garibaldi, the
legendary military hero of the Risorgimento, left his
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In 1875, General Garibaldi, the legendary military hero of Italian unification, left his island retreat in the Mediterranean for Rome. His battle cry no longer required, he was pursuing a mission that would become an obsession in his old age: to divert the River Tiber from Rome.

Through this forgotten episode, Daniel Pick explores Garibaldi's passionate attachment to Rome & to Italy. In the bitter debate that ensued many myths were laid bare, & prevailing medical, social & political anxieties about the future of the state were exposed.

The flood-prone Tiber had caused havoc, disease & death throughout history. In the capital, the General sought to replace it with a Parisian-style boulevard that would be a wonder of the modern world. But behind his florid promise to revitalise ' Italy' lay a complex & shadowy history, including a traumatic event felt by Garibaldi as the defining tragedy of his life: the loss of his wife Anita. Despite himself, he became embroiled in the political labyrinth of Rome & a drama of thwarted ambition, grand illusion & disillusionment, whose significance was not lost on Garibaldi's later admirer, Benito Mussolini, another self-styled redeemer of the Eternal City & the fever-ridden marshes of Italy.



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Rome is burning. Only one man can save it.

The Emperor: Nero, Emperor of Rome & all her provinces, feared

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Rome is burning. Only one man can save it.

The Emperor: Nero, Emperor of Rome & all her provinces, feared

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