Books by Allen Lane

Pears Cyclopaedia for 1996-1997, the 105th Edition, in hardback, with ISBN 0670870463. These older editions of Pears make for a unique birthday gift for somebody born in that year. Likewise, the current year's edition is an invaluable up-to-date single-volume encylopaedia.,A one-volume reference book containing a broad range of background information, alphabetical reference and articles on topics ... ...Read More »

Selected writings of an eminent Indian lawyer; chiefly with reference to India. ...Read More »

Everyone tries to pigeonhole France. The vast numbers who go there on holiday or who discuss the French from across the Channel and Atlantic produce judgments which express anything from adulation to ill-tempered irritation. France and the French, it seems, remain resolutely mysterious and inexplicable. Rod Kedward has spent his entire adult life immersed in the study of France. He knows Paris int... ...Read More »

The centuries under which Britain was under Roman occupation have always had a contradictory reputation. Generations of British readers were brought up to approve of the Roman Empire as the model for their own empire, but equally it was embarrassingly clear that within the Roman Empire Britain itself was merely an unattractive exploitation colony. David Mattingly's major new book draws on a wealth... ...Read More »

There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars ... ...Read More »

At the accession of James I, Britain was an isolated archipelago; a century later it had become a world-class intellectual, commercial, and military center. In A Monarchy Transformed, Kishlansky blends scholarship with insight and learning with imagination to profile Britain in the 17th century--an era of of profound social, economic, and religious change. ...Read More »

Henry James wrote at least 10,000 letters, a vast number of which have yet to be published. For this edition, Philip Horne draws on a wide range of archival holdings to produce an up-to-date selection, a third of which is previously unpublished. ...Read More »