The Rise of the Novel - Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

Ian Watt

The landmark classic that reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time This is the story of a most ingenious invention- the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success...

An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

Alison Bashford

In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found o...