Книги издательства Oxford University Press
Название: Ward Number Six and Other Stories
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov — himself a country doctor — recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of a society paralysed by spiritual malaise, and morbidly conscious of evils which can neither be killed nor cured. This volume also contains an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
Название: The Devil and Other Stories
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in «War and Peace» and «Anna Karenina». Stories as different as 'The Snowstorm', 'Lucerne', 'The Diary of a Madman', and 'The Devil' are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy. 'Strider' and 'Father Sergy', as well as reflecting Tolstoy's own experiences, also reveal profound psychological insights. These stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century, from the nobility to the peasantry, the military to the clergy, from merchants and cobblers to a horse and a tree. Together they present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's skill and artistry.
Название: The Complete Stalky and Co
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories is the question 'What happened to these fifteen-year-old boys, and how did the lessons they learned at school apply to the world of warfare and imperial government?' The stories are based on Kipling's own school, the United Services College at Westward Ho! in Devon, which prepared boys destined for the army or for colonial service; Kipling himself appears as the subordinate character, Beetle. This edition includes five Stalky stories which did not appear in the original volume, and thus constitutes a «Complete Stalky & Co».
Название: Oscar Wilde (Authors in Context)
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr: Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when mass culture and communication promoted the 'new' in every area of British life — 'New Women', 'New Hedonism', 'New Journalism', 'New Imperialism'. His plays, tales, and critical writings questioned traditional attitudes to religion, sexuality, women and the home, crime and punishment, and the freedom of the individual. This book examines the rich interplay between Wilde's society and his writings and shows the remarkable recontextualizing of Wilde and his work on stage, in film and the media in the century that has followed his death.
Название: Beowulf
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
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»Beowulf» is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian past, it tells the story of the hero Beowulf, who comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar by killing first the terrifying, demonic monster Grendel, and then Grendel's infuriated and vengeful mother. A lifetime later, Beowulf's own kingdom, Geatland, is threatened by a fiery dragon; Beowulf heroically takes on this challenge, but himself dies killing the dragon. The poem celebrates the virtues of the heroic life, but Hrothgar and Beowulf are beacons of wisdom and courage in a dark world of feuds, violence and uncertainty, and Beowulf's selfless heroism is set against a background of ruthless power struggles, fratricide and tyranny. This acclaimed translation is complemented by a critical introduction and substantial editorial apparatus.
Название: War Stories and Poems
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.
Название: Arabian Nights' Entertainments
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities on his wives leads to an outbreak of barbarity in his kingdoms and a reign of terror in his court, stopped only by the resourceful Scheherazade. The tales with which Scheherazade nightly postpones the muderous intent of the sultan have entered our language and our lives like no other collection of narratives before or since. Sinbad, Aladdin, Ali Baba: all make their spectacular entrance on to the stage of English literary history in the «Arabian Nights Entertainments» (1704-17). The stories contained in this `store house of ingenious fiction' initiate a pattern of literary reference and influence which today remains as powerful and intense as it was throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This edition reproduces in its entirety the earliest English translation of the French orientalist Antoine Galland's «Mille et une Nuits». This remained for over a century the only English translation of the story cycle, influencing an incalculable number of writers, and no other edition offers the complete text supplemented by full textual apparatus.
Название: Charles Dickens (Authors in Context)
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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Authors in Context examines the work of major authors in relation to their own times and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Charles Dickens was both a representative Victorian and an artist who is quintessentially a 'Post-Romantic'. He was the most popular author of his age and the one who most vividly reflected the contradictory impulses of Victorian society, its energy and invention as much as its social and political anomalies. This book explores Dickens's interest in the urban phenomenon which so marks nineteenth-century culture, and it looks at the vital interconnection between his life and his art. Like his character, David Copperfield, Dickens lived his life and pursued his career 'thoroughly in earnest', but he was also a great comic writer whose work resonates well beyond his own age and continues to be recontextualized on the stage, on film, and on television.
Название: Restoration Literature: An Anthology
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2002
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This anthology brings together a stimulating and entertaining collection of works from the confident and creative period of 1660-1700. The literature of this time is by turns refined, poignant, and brash. Alongside major works such as Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and Mac Flecknoe, printed in their entirety, is a substantial group of lyrics by Rochester, while Milton's Paradise Lost provides a running commentary on the Restoration scene. Scurrilous satires and pamphlets, diaries, theatrical prologues, translations and striking work by women poets and autobiographers illustrate the period in politics, religion, philosophy and in attitudes to town and country, love and friendship.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2005
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With each page focusing on one verb, this title offers graphs, diagrams, and illustrations to help learners understand and remember. It includes review pages to consolidate learning, and an answer key for reference. Designed for self-study, it can also be used in the classroom, and is useful in preparing for BEC and other Business English exams.
Название: The Grammar Lab 1 Student's Book
Жанр: Учебники: доп. пособия
Год: 2010
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»The Grammar Lab» is for children aged 9 to 12 learning English as a foreign language. The books are at three levels of difficulty which are suitable for use on their own or in support of a general coursebook. Within each chapter, grammar rules are taught in stages. Exercises follow each stage.
Название: Headstart Workbook
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 1995
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This is a short course to build skills and confidence at real beginner level.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
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Thorough preparation for the revised FCE Use of English Paper (December 2008), providing in-depth coverage and extensive exam practice. Key features * Extra vocabulary practice focuses on phrasal verbs, collocations, word formation, and word sets. * Extensive practice of FCE Paper 3 tasks. * Four complete FCE Use of English Papers. * Notes on common learner errors.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
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After a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is forced to leave Oxford and begin a new life out in the wide world. His experiences take him from a boys' private school in Wales, where he meets some rather strange people, to a life of luxury in a grand country house and the Ritz Hotel, and then to seven years' hard labour in prison. Where will it all end? The black humour of this story about English society in the 1920s is as fresh today as it was when the novel was first written.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 1995
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There are certain kinds of information that can be conveyed more readily and clearly by pictures than by descriptions and explanations. The Oxford-Duden Pictorial Spanish and English Dictionary identifies over 29,000 objects by means of numbered illustrations, offering at a glance their Spanish and English terms. This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect the most up-to-date changes in technology, science and medicine, industry and commerce and to offer even wider coverage of all major fields of reference, including the arts and entertainment, recreation and sport, flora and fauna and typical situations in domestic and everyday life. Over 1500 new items of vocabulary have been added relating to such diverse fields as photography, typesetting, personal computers, telecommunications and transport. Every vocabulary item is indexed in Spanish and English so that the dictionary can be used in both directions. The subjects are organized thematically enabling the user to grasp the entire vocabulary relevant to a given situation or context. This new edition will be an invaluable supplement to any Spanish-English or English-Spanish dictionary.
Название: Oxford Children's History of the World
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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The whole of human history is here, from the earliest settlement of the world to the beginning of the new millennium, in one sumptuously illustrated and easy to use volume. The essential events of world history are easy to find, because each subject is given its own double page spread. Substantial coverage of each subject is given in the lively narrative text, from a top author of history books for children, backed by a team of expert consultants. This is a new edition with a new cover design and updated text.
Название: Adam Bede
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
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'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences...consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.' Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur Donnithorne. His dalliance with the dairymaid has unforeseen consequences that affect the lives of many in their small rural community. First published in 1859, Adam Bede carried its readers back sixty years to the lush countryside of Eliot's native Warwickshire, and a time of impending change for England and the wider world. Eliot's powerful portrayal of the interaction of ordinary people brought a new social realism to the novel, in which humour and tragedy co-exist, and fellow-feeling is the mainstay of human relationships. Faith, in the figure of Methodist preacher Dinah Morris, offers redemption to all who are willing to embrace it. This new edition is based on the definitive Clarendon edition and Eliot's corrected text of 1861.
Название: Textbook on International Law
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2007
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The sixth edition of Textbook on International Law offers students new to the subject a concise and focused introduction to the essential topics of an international law course from the nature and sources of international law to the use of force and human rights. Dixon guides students through the legal principles and areas of controversy, bringing the subject to life with the use of topical examples to illustrate key concepts. The book incorporates helpful features including a glossary, chapter summaries and further reading. The sixth edition includes further discussion of topical issues such as Guantanamo, the International Criminal Court and the use of force. Online Resource Centre The book is complemented by a website providing updates on case law and legislative developments, as well as direct links to sites where judicial decisions concerning international law can be found, and direct links to sites where international documents and treaties can be found.
Название: Employment Law
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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In its third edition (previously entitled Labour Law), Employment Law Core Text has emerged as an extremely valuable student text, providing balanced coverage of the key legislative provisions impacting on employment relationships. Tailored to meet the needs of employment law modules, the authors' straightforward approach ensures that the text guides students concisely through the ever changing legislative maze of employment law. Areas of recent development are clearly highlighted, particularly relating to discrimination and equal pay, which are now chapters in their own right. The chapter summaries, self-test questions, and further reading sections enable students to critically self-test themselves as well as aiding exam preparation.
Название: Dictionary of Euphemisms
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
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This brand new edition celebrating 20 years of R. W. Holder's popular and successful dictionary of euphemisms is packed full of traditional favourites, such as 'Dutch uncle' or 'push up the daisies', as well as euphemisms from the contemporary world such as 'restructuring', 'coffee-housing', 'extrajudicial killing'. Definitions include examples from real authors, along with entertaining explanations of their origins. To prove that the use of euphemisms is not just a British speciality, there is widespread coverage of American euphemisms, too: for example, 'English' (pertaining to sexual deviance) and 'watermelon' (an indication of pregnancy). The A-Z organization of the text is complemented by a thematic index with short introductory articles on fruitful areas of euphemistic language such as business, sex, death, and the human body. This book remains the most lively and authoritative guide to the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery, and deceit.
