Lacné knihy Oxford University Press
Roxana Oxford World´s ClassicsRoxana Oxford World´s Classics
- D. Defoe
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator...
She Oxford World´s ClassicsShe Oxford World´s Classics
- H. R. Haggard
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Drawing on his knowledge of Africa and of ancient legends, adventure writer H. Rider Haggard weaves this disturbing tale of Ayesha, the mysterious and immortal white queen of a...
Desperate Remedies Oxford World´s ClassicsDesperate Remedies Oxford World´s Classics
- Thomas Hardy
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 464
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
Hardys first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, even...
Martin Chuzzlewit Oxford World´s ClassicsMartin Chuzzlewit Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Charles Dickens
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 768
- 2008
This edition uses the Claredon text and includes Dickens`s Prefaces and the 1868 Postscript which gave his later views of America, the few working notes which accompany the...
Wessex Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsWessex Tales Oxford World´s Classics
- Hardy, T.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 288
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory....
Complete Stalky & Co Oxford World´s ClassicsComplete Stalky & Co Oxford World´s Classics
- Kipling Rudyard
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 368
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
First published in 1899, Stalky and Co. is a collection of school stories based on Kiplings own experiences at the United Services College. Kipling himself appears as the...
Day in Country & Other Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsDay in Country & Other Stories Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Guy de Maupassant
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 1998
This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous...
Return of the Native Oxford World´s ClassicsReturn of the Native Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Hardy
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 496
- 2009
To be loved to madness - such was her great desire Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for music, poetry,...
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight Oxford World´s ClassicsSir Gawain and The Green Knight Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Keith (Tr) Harrison
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 160
- 2008
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it...
King John Oxford World´s ClassicsKing John Oxford World´s Classics
- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 320
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Edited by the eminent A.R. Braunmuller, this thorough edition of King John--the first scholarly edition in almost fifteen years--makes a significant contribution to the study...
Castle Rackrent Oxford World´s ClassicsCastle Rackrent Oxford World´s Classics
- Maria Edgeworth
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 176
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
During the 1790s, with Ireland in political crisis, Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice: in Castle Rackrent, her first novel, she adopted an Irish Catholic...
News from Nowhere Oxford World´s ClassicsNews from Nowhere Oxford World´s Classics
- William Morris
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
''The only English utopia since More''s that deserves to be remembered as literature.''News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. The novel...
Golden Pot and Other Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsGolden Pot and Other Tales Oxford World´s Classics
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 464
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which...
Old English Baron Oxford World´s ClassicsOld English Baron Oxford World´s Classics
- C. Reeve
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 176
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Though I have been dead these fifteen years, I still command here, and none can enter these gates without my permission.' When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a...
Old Mortality Oxford World´s ClassicsOld Mortality Oxford World´s Classics
- Scott, W.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 624
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the...
Greenmantle Oxford World´s ClassicsGreenmantle Oxford World´s Classics
- Buchan, J.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 320
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three...
Under Western Eyes Oxford World´s ClassicsUnder Western Eyes Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Joseph Conrad
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 368
- 2008
'Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.' First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the...
Man of Feeling Oxford World´s ClassicsMan of Feeling Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Henry Mackenzie
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 160
- 2009
Mackenzies hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is...
Evelina Oxford World´s ClassicsEvelina Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Frances Burney
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 512
- 2008
'Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!' Frances Burney's first and most...