A feast of profound, stimulating, and foundational essays—a brilliant contemporary introduction to great minds. —Michael Novak These seventy-eight essays characterize the richness and diversity of c
Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was an influential American political philosopher who developed a form of conservatism rooted in a belief in a transcendent order, "natural" societal distinctions, the close l
This book seeks to renew interest in Joseph Conrad's moral imagination - not literary theory but the dignity of creative literature impels the author's reflections on Conrad's novels in their "varied
Fyodor Dostoevsky's highest and most permanent achievement as a novelist lies in his exploration of man's religious complex, his world and his fate. His primary vision is to be found in his last five
Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his
