Lacné knihy zľava, 2008
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
- Johann Wolfgang 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
- anglické
- 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
- anglické
- 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
- Dickens, Ch.
- 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
- anglické
- Anthony 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
- Blaise 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...
Vicar of Wakefield Oxford World´s ClassicsVicar of Wakefield Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Oliver Goldsmith
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
Oliver Goldsmiths hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall...
Ethan Frome Oxford World´s ClassicsEthan Frome Oxford World´s Classics
- Edith Wharton
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 160
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
`It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.''...
Heart of Midlothian Oxford World´s ClassicsHeart of Midlothian Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Walter Scott
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 624
- 2008
This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scotts finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John...
Tale of a Tub and Other Works Oxford World´s ClassicsTale of a Tub and Other Works Oxford World´s Classics
- J. Swift
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
This volume includes The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, both which accompanied A Tale of a Tub on its first publication in 1704. About the...
Armadale Oxford World´s ClassicsArmadale Oxford World´s Classics
- Collins, W.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 880
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women...
Two Noble Kinsmen Oxford World´s ClassicsTwo Noble Kinsmen Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen was written at the end of Shakespeare's career, as a collaboration with the rising young dramatist John Fletcher....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...