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Heart of Darkness and Other Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsHeart of Darkness and Other Tales Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Jeff Conrad
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his...
Lord Jim Oxford World´s ClassicsLord Jim Oxford World´s Classics
- J. Conrad
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--"as unflinching as a hero in a book"--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on...
The Oxford Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, or What You Will Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Oxford Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, or What You Will Oxford World´s Classics
- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout....
The Oxford Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Oxford Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus Oxford World´s Classics
- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 240
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Titus Andronicus was the young Shakespeare's audacious, sporadically brilliant experiment in sensational tragedy. Its horrors are notorious, but its powerful poetry of grief is...
The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing Oxford World´s Classics
- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 224
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This...
The Oxford Shakespeare: Julius Caesar Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Oxford Shakespeare: Julius Caesar Oxford World´s Classics
- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The most famous of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Julius Caesar was written and first performed in 1599, and was apparently one the plays his contemporaries enjoyed most....
The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Oxford Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I Oxford World´s Classics
- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the...
As You Like It Oxford World´s ClassicsAs You Like It Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
With its witty heroine Rosalind, who has the longest role of Shakespeare's female characters, As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted and most performed comedy. This...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Turn of the Screw and Other Stories Oxford World´s Classics
- H. James
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 328
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncles at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an...
Four Major Plays Oxford World´s ClassicsFour Major Plays Oxford World´s Classics
- H. Ibsen, J. McFarlane, J. Arup
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over...
Faust: Pt. 2 Oxford World´s ClassicsFaust: Pt. 2 Oxford World´s Classics
- J. W. Goethe
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
This is a new translation of Faust, Part Two by David Luke, whose translation of Faust, Part I was the winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here, Luke expertly...
Our Mutual Friend Oxford World´s ClassicsOur Mutual Friend Oxford World´s Classics
- Ch. Dickens
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 880
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he...
Hard Times Oxford World´s ClassicsHard Times Oxford World´s Classics
- Ch. Dickens, P. Schlicke
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 464
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full...
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Secret Agent: A Simple Tale Oxford World´s Classics
- J. Conrad
- Oxford University Press
- 304
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in Londons Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly...
Notes from the Underground: WITH The Gambler Oxford World´s ClassicsNotes from the Underground: WITH The Gambler Oxford World´s Classics
- F. Dostoyevsky
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 320
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the...
Kim Oxford World´s ClassicsKim Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- R. Kipling, A. Sandison
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 352
- 2008
Kim, one of Kiplings masterpieces, is the story of Kimball OHara, the orphaned son of an officer in the Irish Regiment who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. The...
The Man Who Would Be King: And Other Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Man Who Would Be King: And Other Stories Oxford World´s Classics
- R. - Kipling
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 352
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British...
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Oxford World´s ClassicsLes Liaisons Dangereuses Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Choderlos De Laclos
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 448
- 2008
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its...
The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry V Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Oxford Shakespeare: Henry V Oxford World´s Classics
- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 352
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The introduction includes an examination of the Quarto and texts, and of the relationship between them, a critical discussion of the play's historical and literary sources, an...
The Oxford Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Oxford Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew Oxford World´s Classics
- William Shakespeare
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
One of Shakespeare's most rollicking and beloved comedies, The Taming of the Shrew was also one of his earliest, probably written about 1592. The introduction to this edition...
To the Lighthouse Oxford World´s ClassicsTo the Lighthouse Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Virginia Woolf
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 195
- 2008
'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the...
Villette Oxford World´s ClassicsVillette Oxford World´s Classics
- Ch. Bronte
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 538
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.' George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in...
The Professor Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Professor Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Charlotte Bronte
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 304
- 2008
The hero of Charlotte Bront�s first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the...
About Love and Other Stories - Oxford World´s ClassicsAbout Love and Other Stories - Oxford World´s Classics
- A. Chekhov
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov the greatest short story writer who has ever lived. This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as...