DAYLIGHT approaches: a father in Japan breakfasts on coffee, Pepsi, and vitamin pills before running for the train. Twelve thousand miles away in Haiti, a man winces as he shaves with a much-used d…
Inspired by England's Lake District, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) created some of the best-loved poems of the Romantic period. In The Prelude he described his youth and schooling, and the death o…
Catherine the Great remains one of the most resonant icons of imperial Russia. More than a conventional biography, this is a full history of her rule and use of power. It shows how Catherine con…