"This incredible true story reads like the wildest fiction."—Booklist In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn tha

Daniel Wilson (1816-92) brings together science and literary commentary in this 1873 exploration of evolutionary principles in The Tempest.

"Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banishe