A poem does not have to be famous to be cherished. The best-known poems of Robert Burns have been loved by countless people over the years, but there are other poems that may be largely unknown that will mean a great deal to the few who are familiar with them.
From Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to Anais Nin and Henry James, McDowell examines the ruinous love affairs of the 20th century's greatest female writers, and these relationships' effects on their craft.
Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. It is a question to which no satisfactory answer has been found, despite more than a century of research.
