Lacné knihy 2009
La Bete humaine Oxford World´s ClassicsLa Bete humaine Oxford World´s Classics
- E. Zola
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 432
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works....
Politics Oxford World´s ClassicsPolitics Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Aristotle
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 480
- 2009
The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the...
Golden Bough Oxford World´s ClassicsGolden Bough Oxford World´s Classics
- Frazer, J. G.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 1012
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern...
Late Victorian Gothic Tales Oxford World´s ClassicLate Victorian Gothic Tales Oxford World´s Classic
- anglické
- Roger Luckhurst
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2009
The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This...
Sons and Lovers Oxford World´s ClassicsSons and Lovers Oxford World´s Classics
- D. H. Lawrence
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 528
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
Lawrences first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well...
Call of the Wild, White Fang Oxford World´s ClassicsCall of the Wild, White Fang Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Jack London
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2009
Of all Jack London's fictions none have been as popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the...
Typhoon and Other Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsTyphoon and Other Tales Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Joseph Conrad
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 304
- 2009
This volume contains "Typhoon," "The Secret Sharer," "Falk," and "Amy Foster." "Typhoon", a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of...
Selected Writings Oxford World´s ClassicsSelected Writings Oxford World´s Classics
- J. Ruskin
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 368
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote about nature, art,...
The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- John Webster, Rene Weis
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 480
- 2009
This volume offers John Webster's two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil's Law-Case, and the...
Greek Lives Oxford World´s ClassicsGreek Lives Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Plutarch
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 528
- 2009
Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like...
York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling Oxford World´s ClassicsYork Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Oxford World Classics
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 320
- 2009
This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and...
Adventures of Pinocchio - Oxford World´s ClassicAdventures of Pinocchio - Oxford World´s Classic
- C. Collodi
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph...
Sea-Wolf Oxford World´s ClassicsSea-Wolf Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Jack London
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 418
- 2009
When Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself struggling in the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay he thinks the worst that can happen to him is drowning. After he is rescued by the...
Discourses on Livy Oxford World´s ClassicsDiscourses on Livy Oxford World´s Classics
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 448
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
IDiscourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference...
General and Systematic Pathology: With Student Consult AccessGeneral and Systematic Pathology: With Student Consult Access
- C. E. Underwood, S. S. Cross
- naučné
- Elsevier Ltd
- 872
- 2009
- HAXX
This highly acclaimed textbook is written specifically for students of medicine and related health science subjects. It progresses from a review of general pathology principles...
The English Language: A Historical Introduction Cambridge Approaches to LinguisticsThe English Language: A Historical Introduction Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics
- anglické
- Charles Barber
- 2009
- Cambridge University Press
Where does today`s English come from? This new edition of the bestseller by Charles Barber tells the story of the language from its remote ancestry to the present day. In...
Virginian Oxford World´s ClassicsVirginian Oxford World´s Classics
- O. Wister
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on the Western genre. This edition includes Wister's neglected essay,...
Protagoras Oxford World´s ClassicsProtagoras Oxford World´s Classics
- Plato
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 128
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
'You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.' In the fifth century BC professional educators, the...
Resurrection Oxford World´s ClassicsResurrection Oxford World´s Classics
- L. N. Tolstoy
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 528
- 2009
- Oxford University Press
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant...
My Life Oxford World´s ClassicsMy Life Oxford World´s Classics
- anglické
- Benvenuto Cellini
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 512
- 2009
'You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law.' Thus spoke Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow...
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...
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...
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,...