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The Jewish WarJosephusMartin Hammond and Edited by Martin GoodmanOxford World's Classics- A new translation of Josephus' Jewish Wars, whose history is without parallel in the surviving documents of the Roman Empire- Introduction and notes by an acknowledged authority on Roman and Jewish history Martin Goodman- Martin Hammond's translation gives a vivid sense of the energy, variety, and literary skill of Josephus' great work- Full maps and plans to clarify the regions and places mentioned in the text- Comprehensive analytical index

Translated by A. D. MelvilleEdited with introduction and notes by E. J. Kenney An accessible and modern translation Includes comprehensive explanatory notes, making the poetic verse accessible and revealing contextual and literary features Contains a glossary and index of names to help the reader follow the developments and characters in the text Includes a bibliographyThe theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the oftenparadoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and divine characters reflect the never-ending flux and reflux of the universe itself.

The Oxford ShakespeareGeneral Editor Stanley WellsThe Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers*a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings*on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language and allusions*detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances, and changing critical attitudes to the play*textual introduction reconsiders the complex relationship between the two original texts*illustrated with production photographs and related art*full index to introduction and commentary*durable sewn binding for lasting use'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary SupplementABOUT 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: Scholars, students, readers, performers, directors of Shakespeare

What are you looking for?Friendship! Mystery! Adventure! Secrets!When spoiled, selfish orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live at lonley Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire, she discovers a magical world on the other side of a locked garden door. Mary decides to bring the abandoned garden she finds there back to life

*The first translation into English since 1895*The Kill is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris as the centre of Zola's narrative world*Regarded as Zola's finest novel before L'Assommoir and one of the most important novels about nineteenth-century Paris and its rebuilding under Baron Haussmann*Superb translation by Brian Nelson perfectly captures the energy of the original'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods andfortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.'The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world. Conceived as a representation of theuncontrollable 'appetites' unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure. The all-pervadingpromiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renée, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime.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: Readers of classic fiction, of Zola, students of French literature, nineteenth-century French studies, the novel, social history, urban history, representations of Paris, theories of modernity

Új borítóval!Winnie and Wilbur are going into space! Winnie conjures a rocket and they blast into orbit. It's quite tricky dealing with all the rocket's controls but it's even trickier knowing what to do withhungry space rabbits . . . will Winnie have enough magicup her sleeve to save the day? It's an astronomical Winnie and Wilbur adventure!

Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to have written in Persian, and the Masnavi is his masterpiece. Divided into six books and consisting of some 26,000 verses, the poem was designed to convey a message of divine love and unity to the disciples of Rumi'sSufi order, known today as the Whirling Dervishes. Like the earlier books, Book Three interweaves amusing stories with homilies to instruct pupils in mystical knowledge. It has a special focus on epistemology, illustrated with narratives that involve theconsumption of food.

At an end-of-the London season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales,Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning him not to go... Antal Szerb's first novel The Pendragon Legend (1934), set in Wales is a gently satirical blend of gothic and romantic genres, crossed with the murder mystery format to produce a fast-movingand often hilarious romp. But beneath the surface, the reader becomes aware of a steely intelligence probing moral, psychological and religious questions.The book is a philosophical thriller/comedy/murder-mystery/ghost story set first in London and then in Wales. A mystical element is diffused through an increasingly complex plot, as all threads converge in the final chapters.

Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads:Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She's funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the samekindergarten class as Madeline's youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline's teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline's ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.

- The first complete translation of the late Middle Irish Acallam na Senórach- Complements Thomas Kinsella's translation of the Taín, OUP,1970- Relevant to all Celtic and Irish Studies courses'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provideentertainment for the lords and commons of later times.' The angels then left them.Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle Irish Acallam na Senórach, the largest literary text surviving from twelfth-century Ireland. It contains the earliest and most comprehensive collection of Fenian storiesand poetry, intermingling the contemporary Christian world of Saint Patrick, with his scribes, clerics, occasional angels and souls rescued from Hell, the earlier pagan world of the ancient, giant Fenians and Irish kings, and the parallel, timelessOtherworld, peopled by ever-young, shape-shifting fairies. It also provides the most extensive account available of the inhabitants of the Irish Otherworld - their music and magic, their internecine wars and their malice toward, and infatuation with,humankind - themes still featured in the story-telling of present-day Ireland.This readable and flowing new translation is based on existing manuscript sources and is richly annotated, complete with an Introduction discussing the place of the Acallam in Irish tradition and the impact of the Fenian or Ossianic tradition on Englishand European literature.

The Oxford ShakespeareGeneral Editor Stanley WellsThe Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers*a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings*on-page and facing-page commentary and notes explain language and allusions*detailed introductions consider the sonnets' biographical and literary background, how the poems relate to the plays, dating and textual matters, and the mysteries of 'Mr W. H.' and the 'Dark Lady'*includes poems attributed to Shakespeare in the seventeenth century*full index to introductions and commentary*durable sewn binding for lasting use'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary SupplementABOUT 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 Shakespeare, Elizabethan poetry, the sonnet, English Literature

*A new translation of books 21 to 30 of Livy's famous history, which contains the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC.*The translation is based on the most recent Latin editions and is vivd and elegant while remaining close to Livy's Latin.*The notes are far more detailed than any other edition, by a scholar well known for his work on Hannibal and his times.*The comprehensive introduction examines Livy, his work, his historical accuracy, his sources, and the course of Hannibal's campaign.*The edition includes a glossary of Roman and Carthaginian terms, a chronological table, an index, and a series of detailed maps.*The route of Hannibal from the south of Spain over the Alps to Italy is thoroughly discussed in an appendix.'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal

Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) minden ízében 17 éves... Összenőtt a laptopjával, és imádja a legjobb barátait. De a legtöbb tinédzserrel szemben ideje java részét egy kórházban tölti, mivel cisztás fibrózisa van. Az élete csupa sablon, szabály ésönkontroll. Ezt a fegyelmet kell próbára tennie, amikor megismerkedik egy lehetetlenül helyes betegtárssal, akit Will Newmannek hívnak. (Cole Sprouse).A fiatalok közt azonnali flörtölés alakul ki, bár a szigorú előírások azt diktálják, hogy állandóan tartaniuk kell a biztonságos három lépés távolságot. Ahogy a kapcsolatuk egyre intenzívebbé válik, úgy nő a kísértés, hogy sutba dobják a szabályokat, ésátadják magukat a vonzalomnak. A helyzetet tovább bonyolítja Will veszélyes lázadása a saját orvosi kezelése ellen. Stella fokozatosan arra ösztönzi Willt, hogy élvezze ki maximálisan az életét, de vajon meg tudja menteni azt, akit szeret, amikor tilosakár csak megérinteniük egymást?Soon to be a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse (Riverdale'sJughead) and Haley Lu Richardson (The Edgeof Seventeen and Recovery Road)!In this moving story that's perfect for fans of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication - they can't get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives.Can you love someone you can never touch?Stella Grant likes to be in control - even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might passalong an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions.The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn't care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he'll turn eighteen and then he'll be able to unplug all these machines andactually go see the world, not just its hospitals.Will's exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn't feel likesafety. It feels like punishment.What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?

A beautiful, thought-provoking collection of quotes on the eternal subject of love, selected from the works of one of the most popular authors in the world.Love contains inspirational quotes from such beloved Coelho titles as Eleven Minutes, The Valkyries, The Zahir and, of course, the international bestseller The Alchemist.

* Uses the definitive Clarendon text, plus the original illustrations`... holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild, grotesque companions

Translated by Elaine Fantham Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca's letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that are equally illuminating about Seneca's personal life and the turbulent times in which he lived. This is the largest selection of his letterscurrently available. Elaine Fantham's new translation is accurate and readable. Short headnotes to each letter summarize its themes and parallels with other letters. The wide-ranging selection includes letters with literary, social, and political content. The Introduction discusses Seneca's family and political career, his many and varied writings, the nature of the letters as genuine epistles or fiction, their philosophical concerns and social and cultural aspects. Full explanatory notes gloss customs and persons mentioned and other allusions. Separate indexes of Persons and of Places and Things.'You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!'The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose is to reinforce Lucilius' struggle to achieve wisdom and serenity, uninfluenced by worldly emotions. Seneca advises hisfriend on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. The letters include literary critical discussions, moral exhortation, exemplary heroes and episodes from Roman history, and a luridpicture of contemporary luxury. We learn about Seneca's household and estates and about life in the time of Nero

Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published inthe First Folio of 1623, and is now generally seen as the playwright's most penetrating statement about his art.Stephen Orgel's wide-ranging introduction examines changing attitudes to The Tempest, and reassesses the evidence behind the various readings. He focuses on key characters and their roles and relationships, as well as on the dramatic, historical, andpolitical context, finding the play to be both more open and more historically determined than traditional views have allowed.

*This well-established selection of Voltaire's philosophical stories is now updated and expanded to include the verse tale What Pleases the Ladies*The most extensive one-volume selection currently available.*Revised introduction reflects recent critical debates and includes a new section on Voltaire's verse tales, increasingly seen as belonging with his prose tales.*Revised notes and updated bibliography.New to this edition*A verse translation of Ce qui plaŒt aux dames' (What Pleases the Ladies), Voltaire's best verse tale.*Updated translations, revised introduction and notes, and updated bibliography.'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?'Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr Pangloss has got it all wrong.There are no grounds for his daft theory of Optimism. Yet life goes on. We must cultivate our garden, for there is certainly room for improvement.Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's 'philosophical tales', in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has come to be regarded as one of the key texts of theEnlightenment. What Candide does for chivalric romance, the other tales in this selection - Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingenu, and The White Bull - do for science fiction, the Oriental tale, the sentimental novel, and the Old Testament. This new edition alsoincludes a verse tale based on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale, in which we discover that most elusive of secrets: What Pleases the Ladies.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: Readers and students of French literature, the Enlightenment, eighteenth-century philosophy and culture, Voltaire

- Shirley is Charlotte Bront‰'s only historical novel and her most topical one, and it also expresses her sense of bereavement following the deaths of her three siblings. This new edition partners the most authoritative text with the criticallyup-to-date editorial apparatus.- Book reset to improve its appearance while retaining the authoritative Clarendon edition text- Janet Gezari's new introduction highlights the personal events in Bront‰'s life that influenced the sense of loss in the novel as well as the social and political context of the Chartist riots, the independence of women, and the relation of Shirley toBront‰'s other writing.- New and up-to-date bibliography.- Revised notes include translations of all the French phrases in the novel for the first time.New to this edition- New introduction by Janet Gezari- Updated select bibliography- Revised notes, including translations of all the French in the novel- Text newly reset to improve appearance.'You expected bread, and you have got a stone

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, Pope devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of 21. Asuccession of brilliant poems followed, including An Essay on Criticism (1711), Windsor Forest (1713), and his masterpiece The Rape of the Lock (1712). A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the first Dunciad. All theseworks, which exhibit Pope's astonishing human insight, his wide sympathies, and powers of social observation (displayed to greatest effect in his talent for satire), feature in this selection. In his introduction - an eloquent defence of Pope's poeticpractice - Pat Rogers argues that we must abandon our Romantic conception of poetry as a record of fleeting and subjective states if we are to understand Pope fully. Instead, we must see him as an accomplished practitioner of the poetry of ideas and ofsatirical reflection on human society. This collection is chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition of Pope's major works.

In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transgression, pride and shame, rivalry and conflict, gossip andmystery. This is a book that reinvents the novel and plays fantastic games with the language to tell the story of one man's fall and resurrection

The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary bravery in a fight for freedom, and of ruthless cruelty in suppressing a popular dream. A small nation, its people armed with a few rifles and petrol bombs, had the will and courage to rise upagainst one of the world's

*This revised edition of Sterne's extraordinary comic novel retains the text based on the first editions of the original nine volumes, with Sterne's later changes, adds two illustrations by William Hogarth, and expands and updates the introduction,bibliography, and notes, to make this the most critically up-to-date edition available.*The text of the novel preserves, as far as possible, the appearance of Sterne's idiosyncratic typography and features such as black pages, marbled pages, blank pages, missing chapters and other devices.*The introduction provides an overview of the novel and its place in eighteenth-century literature, a biographical account of the author, the novel's innovations and influence, and attitudes towards readers and writers.*Extensive, up-to-date bibliography.*Comprehensive notes identify the profusion of references and reveal previously overlooked sources.New to this edition*Enlarged and revised introduction.*Extensive, up-to-date bibliography.*Revised notes incorporating the latest scholarship and identifying previously overlooked sources.*Two illustrations by Hogarth,included in the first editions of Volumes I and III.'Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read...'Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy, a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes. It contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature, including Uncle Toby, CorporalTrim, Parson Yorick, Dr Slop and the Widow Wadman. Beginning with Tristram's conception, the novel recounts his progress in 'this scurvy and disasterous world of ours', including his misnaming during baptism and his accidental circumcision by a fallingsash-window at the age of five

- The only edition to provide a complete text for performance and the only one that draws on practical theatrical experience.- The only edition to offer a setting of the song 'Who is Silvia?' prepared by Guy Woolfenden from an Elizabethan source.- The introduction explores the play as a theatrical counterpart to the sonnets - a dramatization of competing kinds of love - and analyzes the lyrical language.- Provides further evidence that The Two Gentlemen is Shakespeare's earliest surviving play.- Critical editing, substantive introduction and notes as part of the Oxford Shakespeare series under General Editor Stanley Wells.The Oxford ShakespeareGeneral Editor: Stanley WellsThe Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.- A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings- Wide-ranging introduction explores the lyrical language with which Shakespeare dramatizes competing kinds of love- Detailed performance history designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals- On-page commentary and notes explain language, word-play, and staging- the only edition to provide a setting of the song 'Who is Silvia?' , taken from an Elizabethan source- Illustrated with production photographs and related art- Full index to introduction and commentary- Durable sewn binding for lasting use'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare'

Represents all of Hardy's verse collections and gives generous samples from his finest poems.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) remains one of the best loved of the great English poets.Hardy thought of himself as a poet all his life, although his poetic career only flowered after he had retired from novel-writing in his mid-fifties. Over the next thirty years he wrote the poems that have established him as one of the great and mostenduringly popular English poets of the twentieth century.His verse touches all the common themes of human existence: birth, childhood, love, marriage, ageing, death. If Hardy's age brings anything to them, it is an old man's ironic and elegiac sense that in life hopes are likely to be defeated and lossessustained, and that the world was not designed for human happiness.This collection is prepared by Samuel Hynes, editor of the Oxford English Texts edition of The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, and selected from the Oxford Authors critical edition. The introduction and notes illuminate Hardy's central place inthe tradition of English poetry.

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more openconventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequences are unravelled by the mind of Holmes before the eyes of Watson. That said, the collection also includes some of the bestturns of wit in the series, and indeed in the whole of English literature.The editor of this volume, W.W. Robson, is Emeritus David Masson, Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and the author of Modern English Literature.The general editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes, Owen Dudley Edwards, is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh and author of The Quest for Sherlock Holmes. A Biographical Study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.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, students of crime and mystery novel, literature of the 1910s and 1920s.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was one of the most versatile minds in European intellectual history, and a shaping influence in the development of English poetry.As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by turns dramatist, political journalist, lecturer and religious thinker. This edition includes his two mostfamous poems, Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as well as such blank-verse `conversation' poems as The Eolian Harp, This Lime Tree Bower My Prison and Frost at Midnight.Not least of the attractions of Heather Jackson's selection is the earlier version of the Rime which she presents in full, along with the later, better-known version. Demonstrating the diversity characteristic of Coleridge's work, from earlypolitically-inspired sonnets, to an epitaph he composed for himself shortly before his death, this substantial collection is supplemented by an introduction and notes.