Все книги издательства «Oxford University Press»

Memoirs of Emma Courtney	Oxford University Press
Автор: Hays Mary Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2001	PDF, 266 страниц, 7.98 МБ 0 Оценка:
First published in the turbulent decade following the French Revolution, Memoirs of Emma Courtney is based on Mary Hays' own passionate struggle with romance and Enlightenment philosophy. A feminist and ardent disciple of Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays reveals the lamentable gap between 'what women are' and 'what woment ought to be'. The novel is one of the most articulate and detailed expressions of the yearnings and frustrations of a woman living in late eighteenth-century English society. It questions marital arrangements and courtship rituals by depicting a woman who actively pursues the man she loves. The novel explores the links between sexuality, desire, and economic and social freedom, suggesting the need for improvement in the laws of society which have enslaved, enervated, and degraded woman.
960 andrez 19 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Huntingtower	Oxford University Press
Автор: Buchan John Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 260 страниц, 7.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held prisoner in the rambling mansion, Huntingtower. This modern fairy-tale is also a gripping adventure story, and in it Buchan introduces some of his best-loved characters, including the Gorbals Die-Hards, who reappear in later novels. He also paints a remarkable picture of a man rejuvenated by joining much younger comrades in a challenging and often dangerous fight against tyranny and fear.
942 admin 13 октрября 2012	Скачать книгу

The Princesse de Cleves	Oxford University Press
Автор: Madame De La Fayette Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	PDF, 274 страницы, 8.22 МБ 0 Оценка:
This new translation of The Princesse de Cleves also includes two shorter works also attributed to Mme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Montpensier and The Comtesse de Tende.
988 khroad 28 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

The Adventures of Roderick Random	Oxford University Press
Автор: Smollett Tobias Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2002	DjVu, 520 страниц, 20.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had been disinherited and has left Scotland leaving his son penniless. After a brief apprenticeship to a surgeon, the innocent Roderick travels to London where he encounters various rogues.
1878 admin 25 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

Esther Waters	Oxford University Press
Автор: Moore George Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2001	PDF, 426 страниц, 12.78 МБ 0 Оценка:
1538 vetcogray 11 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Romance of the Forest	Oxford University Press
Автор: Radcliffe Ann Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	PDF, 429 страниц, 12.87 МБ 8 Оценка:
The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt. They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past — a skeleton, a manuscript, and a rusty dagger — are discovered in concealed rooms. Adeline finds herself at the mercy of the abbey's proprietor, a libidinous Marquis whose attentions finally force her to contemplate escape to distant regions. Rich in allusions to aesthetic theory and to travel literature, The Romance of the Forest is also concerned with current philosophical debate and examines systems of thought central to the intellectual life of late eighteenth-century Europe.
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Poor Miss Finch	Oxford University Press
Автор: Collins Wilkie Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2000	PDF, 476 страниц, 14.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fiction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central character but also explores the idea of blindness and its implications. His sensitive presentation of the difficulties, disappointments, and occasional delights which follow the recovery of sight by someone blind since infancy is still one of the best accounts in fiction of a problem which continues to intrigue philosophers, psychologists, and the general public, as it has done since it was first discussed by Locke and Berkeley in the eighteenth century.
1717 sintetico 15 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

Germinal	Oxford University Press
Автор: Zola Emile Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1998	PDF, 574 страницы, 17.22 МБ 0 Оценка:
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted Germinal! Germinal! The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts — a strike which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. Yet despite all the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, Lantier retains his belief in the ultimate germination of a new society, leading to a better world. Germinal is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, but it is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigour and power in this new translation.
2069 reg16 22 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

The Blithedale Romance	Oxford University Press
Автор: Hawthorne Nathaniel Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	DjVu, 306 страниц, 12.24 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, «The Blithedale Romance» tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin reforming a dissipated America. However, rather than dropping bad habits and changing the world, Coverdale the prurient bachelor, Hollingsworth the furious philanthropist, Zenobia the voluptuous feminist, and Priscilla the vulnerable seamstress soon find themselves pursuing egotistical paths which must lead ultimately to tragedy. Evoking a bright rural idyll which fails to survive the ravages of lust and power, Hawthorne cynically undermines the fatuities of nineteenth-century American idealism.»
1103 harmony 02 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

The Condition of the Working Class in England	Oxford University Press
Автор: Engels Friedrich Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
The Condition of the Working Class in England is the best known work of Engels, and still in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. What Cobbett had done for agricultural poverty in his Rural Rides, Engels did — and more — in this work on the plight of industrial workers in England in the 1840s.
1327 lubacha 25 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

Greenmantle	Oxford University Press
Автор: Buchan John Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
This is a reissue of the previous World's Classics edition in the new larger format, and with the series name changed to Oxford World's Classics.
1154 admin 17 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Greek Lyric Poetry	Oxford University Press
Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC — Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest — produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. It is not merely a selection but covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments, apart from the works of Pindar and Bacchylides, and includes a number of pieces not previously translated. The Introduction gives a brief account of the poets, and explanatory Notes on the texts will be found at the end.
865 admin 21 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Orlando Furioso	Oxford University Press
Автор: Ariosto Ludovico Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	PDF, 646 страниц, 19.38 МБ 0 Оценка:
I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds. So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave them birth. This unabridged prose translation faithfully captures the narrative entire and is a kaleidoscope of scenes and emotions of fact and fantasy.
2330 djugituk 26 мая 2009	Скачать книгу

Nana	Oxford University Press
Автор: Zola Emile Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	PDF, 462 страницы, 13.86 МБ 5 Оценка:
This new translation is an accurate and stylish rendering of Zola's original, which was first published in 1880.
1666 overload 21 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Aurora Leigh	Oxford University Press
Автор: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1998	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
Aurora Leigh is an example of the mid-19th-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; Sir Blaise Delorme, the ostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant presence in the work is the narrator, Aurora Leigh herself. From early years in Italy and adolescence in the West Country to the vocational choices, creative struggles, and emotional entanglements of her first decade of adult life, Aurora Leigh develops her ideas on art, love, God, the Woman Question, and society.
1499 delovar 16 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

A Sentimental Education	Oxford University Press
Автор: Flaubert Gustave Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2000	PDF, 524 страницы, 15.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
This is a reissue of the previous World's Classics edition in the new, larger format and with the series name changed to Oxford World's Classics.
1891 demon 14 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

Three Tales	Oxford University Press
Автор: Flaubert Gustave Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	PDF, 140 страниц, 4.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
Three Tales offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. A Simple Heart is set in the Normandy of Flaubert's childhood, while Saint Julian and Herodias draw on medieval myth and the biblical story of John the Baptist for their inspiration. Each of the tales invites comparison with one or other of Flaubert's novels, but they also reveal a fresh and distinctive side to the writers's genius.
505 admin 04 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Story of an African Farm	Oxford University Press
Автор: Schreiner Olive Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1999	DjVu, 322 страницы, 12.88 МБ 5 Оценка:
This pioneering work was a cause celebre when it appeared in London, transforming the shape and course of the late Victorian novel. Lynall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. From the haunting plains of South Africa's high Karoo, Schreiner boldly addresses her society's greatest fears: the loss of faith, the dissolution of marriage, and women's social and political independence.
1161 fill06 19 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

King John	Oxford University Press
Автор: Shakespeare William Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2003	PDF, 314 страниц, 9.42 МБ 0 Оценка:
This important new edition of one of Shakespeare's more neglected plays offers a wide-ranging critical introduction, concentrating on its relevance to Elizabethan political issues and on the role played in it by women, the family, and the law. There is a comprehensive stage history, and full and helpful annotation pays special attention to the play's language and staging.
1134 nadwolf 11 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Caleb Williams	Oxford University Press
Автор: Godwin William Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1998	PDF, 382 страницы, 11.46 МБ 5 Оценка:
1377 listener 25 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

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