Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called a great many thing, both during his life and after his death – a philosopher, a political theorist,...

When reviewing a book from a previous age, like this one, I generally try to judge it according to the standards of the time in which it...

Here's a huge bestseller from the 1740s in England – so much so that it gave rise to an early parody. Henry Fielding published "Shamela"...

I was one of those rotten kids who taught himself to read at the age of three, fifty-(ahem) years ago, and I studied literature in...

Apart from Lady Murasaki's "The Tale Of Genji" (and a few anonymous works that may have been written by women), "The Princess Of Cleves"...