| |
'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!'
The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him boundless treasure and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-13
ePub
|
'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence'
Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-13
ePub
|
'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!'
The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him boundless treasure and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-13
PDF
|
'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence'
Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-13
PDF
|
'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.'
With The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new dramatic form, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-09
PDF
|
This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-09
ePub
|
This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-09
PDF
|
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.'
A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-09
ePub
|
'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.'
With The Beggar's Opera (1728), John Gay created one of the most enduringly popular works in English theatre history, and invented a new dramatic form, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-09
ePub
|
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.'
A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-09
PDF
|
Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around Berlin, observing his acquaintances, but finds he can discover very little...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-05-02
ePub
|
'One of our greatest contemporary novelists' Washington PostBruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City not for his aunt's funeral, but to encounter the place he fled in bitterness forty-five years ago. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-05-02
ePub
|
'Timely and timeless ... Will hold any reader to its last haunting page' Chicago TribuneThe early life of Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, features in this disquieting and keenly observed novel....
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-05-02
ePub
|
As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. At first, the contrast between Nanga and Odili, a former pupil who is visiting the ministry, appears huge. But in the 'eat-and-let-eat'...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-04-25
ePub
|
Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat - from his rivals in the tribe, from those in the white government and even from his own family. Yet he still...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-04-25
ePub
|
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption.Obi manages to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-04-25
ePub
|
'[The writer] in whose company the prison walls fell down' - Nelson Mandela. After a long silence Achebe published in 1987 what many see as his greatest work - an acrid, frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in which...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-04-25
ePub
|
'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.'
Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their origins, and a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-11
PDF
|
'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.'
Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their origins, and a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-11
ePub
|
'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?'
Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism. World-weary and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-11
PDF
|