The Book of Common Prayer

James Wood

For the 350th anniversary of the 1662 edition intimately familiar to our most enduring writers, an exquisite deluxe edition of the Anglican prayer book and literary masterpiece. As essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, "The Book of Common Prayer" has been in daily use for cen...

The Story of the Stone Vol 4: The Debt of Tears

Cao, Xueqin, Minford, John, Kao E

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which The Debt of Tears is the fourth, The Story of the Stone charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story...