Lacné knihy 2008
Confessions Oxford World´s ClassicsConfessions Oxford World´s Classics
- J. J. Rousseau
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 720
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in...
The Nature of the Gods Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Nature of the Gods Oxford World´s Classics
- Cicero
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 288
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'My present intention is to clear myself of any suspicion of partiality by presenting the views of the generality of philosophers concerning the nature of the gods.' Cicero's...
Anselm of Canterbury: the Major Works Oxford World´s ClassicsAnselm of Canterbury: the Major Works Oxford World´s Classics
- St. Anselm
- Oxford University Press
- 544
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does...
The Republic and the Laws Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Republic and the Laws Oxford World´s Classics
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Oxford University Press
- 288
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The...
Selected Philosophical Writings Oxford World´s ClassicsSelected Philosophical Writings Oxford World´s Classics
- Aquinat, T.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 496
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to...
Physics Oxford World´s ClassicsPhysics Oxford World´s Classics
- Aristotle
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
For many centuries, Aristotles Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Now, in the first translation into English since...
Gorgias Oxford World´s ClassicsGorgias Oxford World´s Classics
- Plato
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 216
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to...
La Dame Aux Camelias Oxford World´s ClassicsLa Dame Aux Camelias Oxford World´s Classics
- A. Dumas, D. Coward
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love is based on his own love...
First Love and Other Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsFirst Love and Other Stories Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Ivan Turgenev
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 304
- 2008
This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known 'long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as...
The Decameron Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Decameron Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 752
- 2008
The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florences confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country...
The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales Oxford World´s Classics
- Marquis de Sade
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic...
Essay on Principle of Population Oxford World´s ClassicsEssay on Principle of Population Oxford World´s Classics
- Malthus, T.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 208
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus remains a byword for concern...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Edgar Allan Poe
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2008
Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of...
Devils Oxford World´s ClassicsDevils Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 800
- 2008
Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political...
Memoirs from the House of the Dead Oxford World´s ClassicsMemoirs from the House of the Dead Oxford World´s Classics
- Dostoyevsky, F.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and...
Four Revenge Tragedies: Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger´s Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D´Ambois, and The Atheist´s Tragedy Oxford World´s ClassicsFour Revenge Tragedies: Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger´s Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D´Ambois, and The Atheist´s Tragedy Oxford World´s Classics
- EISAMAN MAUS, K.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 464
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy helped to establish the popularity of the...
The Golden Ass Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Golden Ass Oxford World´s Classics
- Apuleius
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Apuleiuss Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur´s CourtA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur´s Court
- M. Twain, D. C. Beard
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas...
Analects Oxford World´s ClassicsAnalects Oxford World´s Classics
- Confucius
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 160
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Few individuals have shaped their country's civilization more profoundly than the Master Kong (Confucius, 551-479 BC). Compulsory reading in the late Imperial period for all...
The Civil War Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Civil War Oxford World´s Classics
- Julius Caesar
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 432
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's...
On Obligations: De Officiis Oxford World´s ClassicsOn Obligations: De Officiis Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Cicero
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 288
- 2008
On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians. It...
Shirley Oxford World´s ClassicsShirley Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Charlotte Bronte
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 624
- 2008
'You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek...you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.' Shirley is...
Chance Oxford World´s ClassicsChance Oxford World´s Classics
- J. Conrad
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and...
The Education of Henry Adams Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Education of Henry Adams Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Henry Adams, Ira Nadel
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 560
- 2008
'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United...