Samuel Taylor: 120 books

Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself.

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at narrative poetry through the eyes and minds of our most...

It is an ancyent Marinere, And he stoppeth one of three: "By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye "Now wherefore stoppest me?

In a time, a couple hundred years after the war had ended, the world has finished rebuilding. James Regit, a little boy from Australia grows up knowing only the grey walls in the futuristic prison around him. He lives there with his fellow mutants, but he is unlike the others, other than his appearance,...

This is the first part of the Wallenstein trilogy by German playwright and mastermind Friedrich Schiller. The work as a whole produced a profound impression, and it is certainly Schiller's masterpiece in dramatic literature. He brings out with extraordinary vividness the ascendency of Wallenstein...

Aids to Reflection : And the Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit If then it be our prerogative, as rational beings, and our duty as Christians, to think, as well as to act, rationally,—to see that our convictions of truth rest on the grounds of right reason; and if it be one of the clearest...

Coleridge's father was a kindly and learned man, little sophisticated, and distinguishing himself now and then by comical acts of what is called absence of mind. Charles Buller, afterwards a judge, was one of his boys, and, when her husband's life seemed to be failing, had promised what help he could...

Published in 1817, and written when the author was attempting to wean himself from his addiction to opium, this meandering but highly incisive collection of essays philosophical and literary is among the most influential works of literary criticism ever produced.  It is a remarkable testament to a brilliant and unorthodox genius.

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Nick Clearly, a young blind boy from Australia, born in the middle of a war, lives in an underground world and is told all his life that anyone who goes up to the surface they will die. The day Nick leaves his underground home everything changes for him.

Coleridge était naturellement porté au mysticisme ; la lecture des poètes et des philosophes allemands aggrava cette disposition naturelle, une fatale habitude la transforma en défaut incurable. En 1797, une prescription médicale, motivée par une indisposition légère, révéla à Coleridge...

LIGHTSPEED was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction. The whole point of this magazine is that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people and for people—all kinds of people, no matter where they're from or what they look like. The...