
Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to Berlin the inspiration for the musical Cabaret but is also the author of plays, novels, and diaries. The Isherwood Century gathers twenty-four...

The charismatic Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 B.C.E.) was one of the most successful military commanders in history, conquering Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia, central Asia, and the lands beyond as far as Pakistan and India. Alexander has been, over the course of two millennia...