Launching a major new research project examining the principles of succession law in comparative perspective, this volume analyses the formalities imposed by the law on making a will across a wide range of European and international jurisdictions.
This reissed edition of Longman Annotated Texts King Lear includes comprehensive notes, annotations and an introduction, all designed to be of use to undergraduates and interested readers. King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied tragedies. However, since the late 1…
-- The AtlanticWhen Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka?s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka?s work, rescuing his legacy from both obscurity and physica…
"Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpublished works of the man he considered a literary geniu…
There is no doubting Shakespeare's literary genius, immortalized in his published work. However, statements along these lines are frequently followed by laments of how little is known about this life. This is true if we wish to know about Shakespeare's movements on even a month-…