Europe in the High Middle Ages: The Penguin History of Europe

William Chester Jordan

The Penguin History of Europe Ser. No. III.With a lucid and clear narrative style William Chester Jordan has turned his considerable talents to composing a standard textbook of the opening centuries of the second millennium in Europe. He brings this period of dramatic social, political, economic, cultur...

A Childhood - The Biography of a Place

Harry Crews; Tobias Wolff (Foreword by)

The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural SouthA Penguin ClassicHarry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when "the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had been living in ...