Nicholas Farrell

Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Plutarch’s series of biographies was the first of its kind, as much groundbreaking in conception as the Histories of Herodotus. Plutarch looked...

“A FABULOUS BOOK. GET STARTED AND TRY TO STOP – I COULDN’T.”Jan Harlan, executive producer of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut andAI – Artificial Intelligence, with Steven Spielberg.Those with the job of...

Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism. An autobiography in verse, it tells of his childhood in the Lake District, his student days in Cambridge, his passion for the French...

First published in 1766 and a perennial favorite since then, The Vicar of Wakefield is built around the naïve but loveable figure of Dr Primrose. He and his family live in rural bliss until disaster threatens to destroy their happiness: abduction,...