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  • Call of The Wild, White Fang and Other Stories (Owc) * 2009

    Call of The Wild, White Fang and Other Stories (Owc) * 2009

    London,Jack
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous shortstories - `Bƒtard', `Moon-Face', `Brown Wolf', `That Spot', and `To Build a Fire.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: General
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  • Rome's Mediterranean Empire (Owc) Books 41-45 & The Periocha

    Rome's Mediterranean Empire (Owc) Books 41-45 & The Periocha

    Livy
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    - This is the first complete English translation of Books 41-45 of Livy's famous history of Rome in fifty years. It is the only paperback edition to include the Periochae, the summaries of Livy's entire 142 books, previously available in English only inLoeb's hardcover series.- These five books tell the story of Rome's last major war with Macedon and they have the special attraction of illustrating, in compact form, Livy's moral vision at the heart of his account of the Romans' past.- The excellent introduction considers the place of Livy's work in ancient historical writing, his sources and the historical background, the structure of these five books and their content.- Explanatory Notes draw attention to historical and literary questions and points of interest
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  • Castle Rackrent (Owc) * (2009)

    Castle Rackrent (Owc) * (2009)

    Edgeworth
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    The best-value most up-to-date edition of Edgeworth's most studied novelDuring 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 voice to narrate the decline of a family from her own Anglo-Irish class. CastleRackrent's narrator, Thady Quirk, gives us four generations of Rackrent heirs - Sir Patrick, the dissipated spendthrift
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  • The Collected Poems - Cavafy (Owc) *

    The Collected Poems - Cavafy (Owc) *

    Cavafy, C. P.
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    *Cavafy is the most widely known and best loved modern Greek poet. This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of the 154 authorized poems ever published, with a new English translation that faithfully conveys the rhythms and the Greek accent ofCavafy's individual voice.*The Greek text is the first to be based wherever possible on Cavafy's own final printings of his poems and is the most authentic Greek text ever to be published.*The English translation by Evangelos Sachperoglou preserves Cavafy's tone of voice and the rhythms of his poetry and is more faithful to the original than most other translations.*The Introduction is the most comprehensive ever published to accompany an edition of the poems, and dicusses their themes and the literary and historical context. Explanatory Notes gloss Greek historical names and historical events alluded to in thepoems. A Chronological List of Poems provides a helpful guide to composition history and there are indexes of Greek and English titles.'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious,ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present brief and vivid evocations of historical scenes and sensual moments, often infused with his distinctivesense of irony. They have established him as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of the 154 authorized poems ever published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of Cavafy's individual tone of voice.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Poetry readers, readers of Greek literature, students of Modern Greek, European and Comparative Literature, Classical Studies, Greek and Byzantine Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender/Queer Studies, lovers of Greece and Cavafy
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  • The Golden Bowl * 2010 (Owc)

    The Golden Bowl * 2010 (Owc)

    James, Henry
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of thePrince's marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. When the golden bowl is broken, Maggie must leave the security of her childhood and try to reassemble the pieces of her shattered happiness.In this, the last of his three great poetic masterpieces, James combined with a dazzling virtuosity elements of social comedy, of mystery, terror, and myth. The Golden Bowl is the most controversial, ambiguous, and sophisticated of James's novels.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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  • Decameron (Owc) (2008)

    Decameron (Owc) (2008)

    Boccaccio
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core.In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to tell each other stories. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in this virtuoso performance of one hundred tales, vivid portraitsof people from all stations in life, with plots which revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions. Themes are playfully restated from one story to another within an elegant and refined framework. One of Chaucer's most fruitful sources for theCanterbury Tales, Boccaccio's work artfully combines the essential ingredients of narrative: fate and desire, crises and quick-thinking.This new translation by Guido Waldman captures the exuberance and variety and tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: General readers, those interested in Italan literature in translation, students of Italian literature, Comparative literature, medieval literature, medieval history, at all levels.
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  • The Major Works - John Milton (Owc) *2009)

    The Major Works - John Milton (Owc) *2009)

    Milton
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Milton's poetry and prose - all the English verse together with agenerous selection from the major prose writings - to give the essence of his work and thinking.Milton's influence on English poetry and criticism has been incalculable, and this edition covers the full range of his poetic and political output. It includes Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes as well as major prose works such asAreopagitica and The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. As well as all the English and Italian verse, the volume includes most of the Latin and Greek verse in parallel translation. Spelling has been modernized, and the poems are arranged in order ofpublication, essential to an understanding of the progress of Milton's career in relation to the political and religious upheavals of his time. The extensive notes cover syntax, vocabulary, historical context, and biblical and classical allusions. Theintroduction traces both Milton's changing conception of his own vocation, and the critical reception his work has received over the past four centuries.
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  • The First Philosophers (Owc)

    The First Philosophers (Owc)

    Waterfield Robin
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise wasby no means limited to this
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  • Redgauntlet (Owc)

    Redgauntlet (Owc)

    Scott Walter
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    - Arguably Scott's finest novel, and the last of his major Scottish novels, Redgauntlet is the story of an imaginary third Jacobite rebellion, and the attempts to instal the exiled Prince Charles Edward Stewart on the British throne.- The only available critical edition, this reissue includes a fine introduction by Kathryn Sutherland, which examines the historical context, the novel's structure and style, and the story itself.- Reproduces the Magnum edition text, the last to be corrected by Scott, and includes Scott's own notes.- Up-to-date bibliography.- Timeline of Scottish history in the period relating to the novel, as well as a chronology of the author.- Full explanatory notes and a glossary of Scots words.'Far and wide was [Redgauntlet] hated and feared. Men thought he had a direct compact with Satan - that he was proof against steel -.'Set in the summer of 1765, Redgauntlet centres around a third, fictitious, Jacobite rebellion. Kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet, a fanatical supporter of the Stewart cause, the young Darsie Latimer finds himself caught up in the plot to enthrone theexiled Prince Charles Edward Stewart. The novel follows Darsie's adventures and those of the advocate Alan Fairford, who sets out to rescue him. These two young men from very different backgrounds are united by friendship and their optimistic belief inthe settled Hanoverian establishment.First published in 1824, this is the last of Scott's major Scottish novels, and perhaps his most complex statement about the relation between history and fiction. This edition uses the Magnum text of 1832.
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  • The Major Works - William Wordsworth (Owc) * 2009

    The Major Works - William Wordsworth (Owc) * 2009

    Wordsworth,William
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented byimportant letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the essence of his work and thinking.William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetryin the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative.This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large sample of the finestlyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.
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  • The Age of Innocence (Owc) * 2008

    The Age of Innocence (Owc) * 2008

    Wharton,Edith
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    'They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.'Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer,Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society
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  • Christmas Books (Owc) 2008 *

    A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books (Owc)

    Dickens,Charles
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    *A new single-volume edition of all Dickens's Christmas books, with a selection of the original illustrations and a full critical introdution.*New edition includes a selection of 20 of the original illustrations.*Excellent introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst contextualizes the Christmas stories, the social questions they set out to address, their reception and the enduring popularity of 'A Christmas Carol', and how their style and themes resonate in morecomplex ways in his major fictions.*Lively notes point to parallels with Dickens's other writings.*Up-to-date bibliography.*Two appendixes including Dickens's article, 'What Christmas Is As We Grow Older', and facsimile pages from Dickens's reading version of 'A Christmas Carol'.New to this edition*New editorial apparatus including introduction, notes, bibliography, by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.*Three appendixes containing facsimile pages from the first printing of 'A Christmas Carol' and the article 'What Christmas Is As We Grow Older'.*A selection of 20 of the original illustrations.'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was firstpublished in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. Allfive stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama, genial romance and urgent social satire, in pursuit of his aim 'to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land'.
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  • Jude The Obscure (Owc) * 2009

    Jude The Obscure (Owc) * 2009

    Hardy,Thomas
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?'Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead, and their refusal to marry when free to do soconfirms their rejection of and by the world around them. The shocking fate that overtakes them is an indictment of a rigid and uncaring society.Hardy's last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure caused outrage when it was published in 1895. This is the first truly critical edition, taking account of the changes that Hardy made over twenty-five years. It includes a new chronology andbibliography and substantially revised notes.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: students and readers of English literature, the novel, the works of Thomas Hardy
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  • The Two Noble Kinsmen (Owc) * 2008

    The Two Noble Kinsmen (Owc) * 2008

    Shakespeare, William
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the central themes of this humourous and moving play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction to this new edition offers an illuminating account of Shakespeare's collaboration with his younger colleagueJohn Fletcher, and there are full and helpful notes on unfamiliar words, stage business, allusions, and the play's often complex language.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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  • Pot Luck (Owc) *

    Pot Luck (Owc) *

    Zola, Emile
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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  • Six Tragedies (Owc) * 2010

    Six Tragedies (Owc) * 2010

    Seneca
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    Translated by Emily Wilson- The fullest single-volume verse translation of Seneca's tragedies, this edition includes six major plays by one of the most prolific, versatile, and influential of all classical Latin writers.- Seneca is a writer for uncertain and violent times, whose plays are the product of a sensational and frightening period of history, and whose themes resonate today.- Emily Wilson's new translation is lively, readable, and accurate, and corresponds line-for-line to Seneca's Latin.- The Introduction provides a succinct account of Seneca's life and times, his philosophical beliefs, the literary form of the plays and their immense influence on European literature.- Includes an up-to-date bibliography and explanatory notes which identify mythological allusions.Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * ThyestesSeneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide,child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings. Passion is constantly set against reason, and passion wins out. Seneca forces us to think about the difference betweencompromise and hypocrisy, about what happens when emotions overwhelm judgement, and about how, if at all, a person can be good, calm, or happy in a corrupt society and under constant threat of death.Seneca was one of the most prolific, versatile, and influential of all classical Latin writers, and the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. This new edition of his six best plays captures Seneca's style in a verse translationthat is both lively and accurate.
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  • The Crimes of Love (Owc)

    The Crimes of Love (Owc)

    Sade, De Marquis
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    *This is the fullest selection from the Marquis de Sade's four-volume collection of short stories, The Crimes of Love. David Coward's vibrant new translation captures the verve of the original, and his introduction and notes describe Sade's notoriouscareer.*The stories variously depict the desperate lengths to which people are driven by passion, and feature embezzlement, abduction, murder and incest.*This selection includes the 'Essay on Novels', the preface to the collection and an important statement of his concept of fiction and one of the few literary manifestoes published during the Revolution.*Appendices include the denunciatory review of the collection that it received on publication, and Diderot's vigorous response.'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...'Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories
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  • The Woodlanders (Owc) * 2009

    The Woodlanders (Owc) * 2009

    Hardy,Thomas
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    The only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and editions, and incorporating Hardy's later revisions.New introduction by Penny Boumelha considers the novel in the context of Hardy's career, the characters' relationships,the role of destiny and individual choice, narrative perspective and the communityNew and up-to-date bibliographyNew chronologyTwo maps Two mapsHistory of the text and textual notesNew to this editionNew introduction by Penny Boumelha considers the novel in the context of Hardy's career, the characters' relationships,the role of destiny and individual choice, narrative perspective and the communityNew and up-to-date bibliographyNew chronology'If ever I forget your name let me forget home and heaven...But no, no, my love, I never can forget 'ee
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  • Selected Stories - Mansfield (Owc)

    Selected Stories - Mansfield (Owc)

    Mansfield,Katherine
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early death at the age of thirty-four cut short one of the finest short-story writers in the Englishlanguage.This selection covers the full range of Mansfield's fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' and the macabre and ominous 'A Married Man's Story'. The stories that pay what Mansfieldcalls 'a debt of love' to New Zealand are as sharply etched as the European stories, and she recreates her childhood world with mordant insight. Disruption is a constant theme, whether the tone is comic, tragic, nostalgic, or domestic, echoingMansfield's disrupted life and the fractured expressions of Modernism.This new edition increases the selection from 27 to 33 stories and prints them in the order in which they first appeared, in the definitive texts established by Anthony Alpers.
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  • The Dawn of The Roman Empire (Owc) Books 31-40 * 2009

    The Dawn of The Roman Empire (Owc) Books 31-40 * 2009

    Livy
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    New translation from the most up-to-date text available of Livy's all-encompassing history of Rome.'With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free
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  • The Confessions (Owc) * (2008)

    The Confessions (Owc) * (2008)

    Saint Augustine
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art.Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered thefaith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden that Augustine finally achieved the act of will to Christian conversion, which he compared to a lazy man in bed finally deciding it is time to get up and face the day.
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  • The Major Works - Robert Browning (Owc) *2009

    The Major Works - Robert Browning (Owc) *2009

    Browning
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    *Previously published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series, this is the most comprehensive selection of Browning's poems and prose available, and the only selection of Browning's poetry to include his courtship correspondence with Elizabeth Barrett.*Includes the complete texts of many of Browning's longer poems, and three entire books from his epic masterpiece The Ring and the Book*Over 80 shorter poems are included, among them Browning's best loved and most famous dramatic monologues.*Includes Browning's only significant piece of critical writing (the 'Essay on Shelley')*Edited by Adam Roberts, a contributing editor to The Oxford Poetical Works of Robert Browning, and introduced by Daniel Karlin, who has edited other selections of Browning's works and The Courtship Correspondence for Oxford.*Updated Further Reading list.This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning's poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career togive the essence of his work and thinking.Browning's work ranges from the beguiling magic of 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive selection includes over eighty of his shorter poems, amongst them his most famous and best-loveddramatic monologues, as well as the complete text of many of his longer poems (Pauline, Pippa Passes, 'Bishop Blougram's Apology'). It contains three books from The Ring and the Book and Browning's only significant piece of critical writing (the 'Essayon Shelley'). This edition also selects generously from the love letters between Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, as well as from Browning's more general correspondence - letters which cast a unique light upon the poems themselves, and poetry in general.
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  • Satires and Epistles (Owc) *

    Satires and Epistles (Owc) *

    Horace
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    Translated by John Davie and with introduction and notes by Robert Cowan A new translation of Horace's satires and epistles that does full justice to the caustic, ribald style of the satires, together with an up-to-date critical introduction and notes. John Davie's prose translation perfectly captures the lively, scurrilous, and frequently hilarious style of the satires, and the warm and engaging persona of the more meditative epistles. Includes the important Ars poetica, the 'art of poetry', Horace's treatise on poetics in the form of advice to an aspiring writer, particularly of epic and drama. Robert Cowan's introduction and notes take account of the latest scholarship, and contextualize Horace's poems within the development of Roman satire and the themes of philosophy, morality, sex and gender, literary criticism, politics and patronage. Horace's works were hugely influential from the Renaissance to the present, on writers from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W.H. Auden and Robert Frost.Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of Horace's Satires. Writing in the 30s BC, Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries, while still finding time to reflect on how to write good satire and along the wayrevealing his own persona to be as flawed and bigoted as the people he attacks. Alongside famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse, the explosive fart of Priapus, and the grotesque dinner party given by the nouveau-richeNasidienus, these poems are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and Horace's pervasive humanity. They influenced not only Persius and Juvenal but the long tradition of English satire, from Ben Jonson to W. H. Auden. These new prosetranslations by John Davie perfectly capture the ribald style of the original.In the Epistles, Horace uses the form of letters to his friends, acquaintances, foremen, and even the emperor to explore questions of philosophy and how to live a good life
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  • Julius Caesar (Owc) * 2008

    Julius Caesar (Owc) * 2008

    Shakespeare, William
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    Julius Caesar's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers.Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare canon and examines Shakespeare's transmutation of history into drama. He investigates the play's ethical andmoral concerns in a section on Roman values and analyses its fortunes in performance, from its immediately successful first staging to modern productions for cinema, television, and stage.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Students from A-level up to postgraduate of English literature, Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, drama and politics
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  • Hellenistic Lives (Owc) *

    Hellenistic Lives (Owc) *

    Plutarch
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    Robin Waterfield and Andrew ErskineAlexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * FlamininusThis selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival of the Romans. Plutarch's biographies of eminent politicians, rulers, and soldiers combine vividportraits of their subjects with a wealth of historical information
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  • Faust Ii. (Owc) * (2008)

    Faust Ii. (Owc) * (2008)

    Goethe,Johann Wolfgang Von
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture and inspired above all by the world of story-telling andmyth at the heart of the Greek tradition, as well as owing some of its material to the Arabian Nights tales.The restless and ruthless hero, advised by his cynical demon-companion Mephistopheles, visits classical Greece i search of the beautiful Helen of Troy. Returning to modern times, he seeks to crown his career by gaining control of the elements, and at hisdeath is carried up into the unkown regions, still in pursuit of the `Eternal Feminine'.David Luke's translation of Part One won the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here he again imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable - and actable - translation, supported by an introduction, full notes, and anindex of classical mythology.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth ofother valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Sixth form students up to postgraduate, studying German Literature. Undergraduates Studying Modern Languages.
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  • South Sea Tales (Owc) * 2009

    South Sea Tales (Owc) * 2009

    Stevenson,Robert Louis
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    The only volume of Stevenson's Pacific storiesThe literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject materialoffered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction.In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of `The Beach at Falesé, the folktale plots of `The Bottle Imp' and `The Isle of Voices', and themodernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection - the firstto bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross- cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonialworld.
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  • Oedipus The King and Other Tragedies (Owc)

    Oedipus The King and Other Tragedies (Owc)

    Sophocles
    Kiadó: Oxford University Press
    SophoclesOliver Taplin- A major new verse translation of four of Sophocles' great tragedies- The volume brings together Sophocles' four plays with male protagonists- Oliver Taplin's translation encourages the reader to hear the sound of the spoken words, and to relish the potential for song within the lyrics- The volume includes individual introductions to each of the plays, a general introduction to Sophocles and Greek theatre, and substantial notes on meaning, mythical references, aspects of performance, and cultural contextTable of ContentsThe Priorities of this TranslationIntroduction to Sophocles and Greek Tragic TheatreNote on Text, Spellings, Stage Directions, etc.List of Maps- Oedipus the KingIntroductionTranslation- AiasIntroductionTranslation- PhiloctetesIntroductionTranslation- Oedipus at ColonusIntroductionTranslationNotesSelect Biblography
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