Patrick Tremayne, sail aboard an old merchant ship, the Eagle, and engage a British frigate bringing troops and supplies to America for ... two years researching 18th-century armaments, ship ...

$16.00 (paperback). Anthony West has called "Dream of the Red Chamber," a Chinese novel written in the 18th century, "beyond question one of the great novels of all literature," and many eminent ...

Authors and playwrights in 18th-century Europe helped make science accessible to the common reader. Photo illustration by Shaylyn Esposito; Photos courtesy of Wikipedia, iStock/Khaneeros ...