Lacné knihy 2008
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
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- 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
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- M. Smith, Ch. Bronte, J. Gezari
- 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
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- 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...
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre Oxford World´s Classics
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- John Polidori
- Oxford University Press
- 312
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
John Polidoris classic tale The Vampyre(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen...
The Rainbow Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Rainbow Oxford World´s Classics
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- D. H. Lawrence
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 544
- 2008
To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity This is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from...
Ward Number Six and Other Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsWard Number Six and Other Stories Oxford World´s Classics
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- A. Chekhov
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories...
Robinson Crusoe Oxford World´s ClassicsRobinson Crusoe Oxford World´s Classics
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- Daniel Defoe
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
Klassiker kommen nicht aus der Mode. Sie lassen sich immer wieder neu entdecken - besonders, wenn sie so ansprechend gestaltet sind wie dieser Band. Eine ausführliche...
The Russian Master and Other Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Russian Master and Other Stories Oxford World´s Classics
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- A. Chekhov
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
Concentrating on the themes of the loss of ideals and the poverty of actual experience, this collection of Chekhov stories--taken from The Oxford Chekhov--includes "His Wife,"...
Autobiography and Other Writings Oxford World´s ClassicsAutobiography and Other Writings Oxford World´s Classics
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- B. Franklin
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
Franklins writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century,...
Twilight of the Idols Oxford World´s ClassicsTwilight of the Idols Oxford World´s Classics
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- F. Nietzsche
- Oxford University Press
- 176
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsches own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a short introduction to the whole of his philosophy, and the most synoptic of...
Mark on Wall & Other Short Fiction Oxford World´s ClassicsMark on Wall & Other Short Fiction Oxford World´s Classics
- V. Woolf
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 160
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'I shall never forget the day I wrote "The Mark on the Wall" - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. "The Unwritten Novel" was the great...
The Nun Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Nun Oxford World´s Classics
- D. Diderot
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 234
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Diderots The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness,...
Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh Oxford World´s ClassicsBeowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh Oxford World´s Classics
- H. O´Donoghue
- Oxford University Press
- 176
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in a dark world of feuds, violence, and uncertainty. Set in the...
Elective Affinities Oxford World´s ClassicsElective Affinities Oxford World´s Classics
- J.W. Goethe
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite...
Birds and Other Plays Oxford World´s ClassicsBirds and Other Plays Oxford World´s Classics
- Aristophanes
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian...
Life, Letters and Poetry Oxford World´s ClassicsLife, Letters and Poetry Oxford World´s Classics
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- Michelangelo
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 208
- 2008
Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator...
Washington Square Oxford World´s ClassicsWashington Square Oxford World´s Classics
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- Henry James
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 224
- 2008
One of the most instantly appealing of Jamess early masterpieces, Washington Square is a tale of a trapped daughter and domineering father, a quiet tragedy of money and love and...
Nicholas Nickleby Oxford World´s ClassicsNicholas Nickleby Oxford World´s Classics
- Ch. Dickens
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 926
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic...
Barchester Towers Oxford World´s ClassicsBarchester Towers Oxford World´s Classics
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- A. Trollope
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 388
- 2008
Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral...
Pensees and Other Writings Oxford World´s ClassicsPensees and Other Writings Oxford World´s Classics
- B. Pascal
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 320
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes...