In this “absorbing and moving” memoir, a scholar of children’s literature considers the relationship between fathers and sons, and between literature and

The author uses his love of books as the backdrop for the story of his complicated relationship with his father.

It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen forged a key to a door never meant to be opened by mortal man--its inception would hasten

Critical and historical notes accompany Shakespeare's play about a shipwrecked duke who learns to command the spirits.

In Prospero's America, Walter W. Woodward examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by John Winthrop, Jr., one of English colonization's early gian