Bücher der Reihe Canto Classics

Rudyard Kipling's last work reflects on his life and the basis of his art. Illustrated with Kipling's own satirical drawings from the manuscripts, and brought together with his other autobiographical writings (some previously unpublished), this fascinating book sheds new light on the intriguing relationship between Kipling's life and work.

A classic study of the allegorical power of love in literature, traced through major works of the medieval and Renaissance periods, by one of the major literary critics of the twentieth century.

A collection of the literary-critical essays and reviews by C. S. Lewis, most of them previously uncollected, and one essay, 'Image and Imagination', published for the first time. The volume concerns a wide range of literary topics and includes Lewis's reviews of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

This unique volume brings together world leaders in cosmology, particle physics, quantum gravity, mathematics, philosophy and theology, to provide fresh insights into the deep structure of space and time. Subjects ranging from dark matter to the philosophical and theological implications of spacetime, ensuring that the issue is thoroughly explored.

This book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas. Elegant and accessible, it is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr's celebrated Trevelyan Lectures, What Is History?.

Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.

Amid the complex welter of current critical theories, C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.