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From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-27
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From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-27
ePub
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Brothers Karamazov - The Complete Garnett Translation” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.This is the version based on the unabridged Garnett translation. The Brothers Karamazov is the final...
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e-artnow
Parution :
2014-03-13
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'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.'
Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-13
ePub
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'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.'
Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-03-13
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Boarding the train at Euston, Alec begins the journey to his former lover's funeral. Theirs was an affair acknowledged and so permanent that they called themselves 'the Trio', but now only two of them remain. Returning, 'Uncle Alec' will be welcomed by his lover's...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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Narrated in the first person, this short story is one episode in the life of a Russian labour-camp inmate. Written by Varlam Shalamov after his own experiences at a gulag, it describes the apathy of prisoners as they steadily approach death, the assuredness of betrayal...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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Written by one of the most lauded Chinese writers of the twentieth century, this bijou story focuses around the relationship between Mr and Mrs Mi and compares their bond of love with the sense of care they feel for the elderly Mrs Yang. A subtle examination of the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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After multiple postings in various armies, Nikolay Galatov, an itinerant soldier, is living in Berlin. Every now and then he remembers Olga Kind, a woman he left behind in St. Petersburg seven years ago. He decides to go and find her.Filled with teasing plot lines,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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Elisa Allen is tending her chrysanthemums. Strong, with a handsome face she skilfully and proudly cultivates the best in the valley. Tonight, her husband is taking her to town. While she works, a squeak of heels and a plod of hoofs bring a curious vehicle, curiously...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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John Updike's fictional antihero, Henry Bech, could not be more different from his creator. A self-confessed composite of Norman Mailer and J.D. Salinger, he cannot help but flatter himself. In this 'foreword' Updike presents us with a conceited and satirical...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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'Spring in Fialta is cloudy and dull'. With his senses wide open, Victor wanders the streets. He meets Nina. Again. For fifteen years, their fleeting, chance encounters have made Nina a faint but constant presence in the margins of his life. As they happen upon one...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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Roark is a bad man. His pig is a bad pig. They match in devilish temperament and violent deeds.Roark laughs at a drowned monk; his pig eats its own young and turns a boar sterile. As a spiteful tithe, the pig is given to the local monastery. The pig becomes a Christian....
Editeur :
Penguin
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2014-03-06
ePub
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Merzlakov, once a robust stable-hand, now fights hunger, pain and exhaustion after a year and a half at a labour camp. An enormous man given little food, he sees the larger men dying first, their bodies conquered by starvation. In his desperation for survival, he begins...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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'About things that are within our power and those that are not.'
Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-13
ePub
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'About things that are within our power and those that are not.'
Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-13
PDF
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'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate'
Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-09
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'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate'
Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-09
ePub
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The young Gascon d'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are ready to sacrifice everything for love, glory and the common good.The wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice, the magnetic Milady de Winter, propel the devoted...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2014-01-02
ePub
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