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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
This freshly edited anthology includes all but one of Shelley's longer poems, from 'Queen Mab' onwards, in their entirety. As well as works such as 'Promethus Unbound', 'The Mask of Anarchy' and 'Adonais', the volume includes a wide range of Shelley's shorter poems and much of his major prose.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
This selection of Ruskin's work draws on the whole range of his output, including 'Modern Painters', 'The Stones of Venice' and 'Sesame and Lilies', as well as featuring less familiar writings on science and myth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
This collection includes five comedies on the theme of marital disharmony by Restoration playwright John Vanburgh (1664-1726). The text includes a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and bibliography.
66) Complete letters
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Pliny's letters provide an insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. They cover a wide range of topics, from the contemporary political scene to domestic affairs, the education system, the rituals and conduct of Roman religion, the treatment of slaves, and the phenomena of nature.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Florent Quenu returns to Paris after being unjustly imprisoned and finds the city utterly changed. The great new food market, Les Halles, has been built, and food dominates the political and social life of the capital.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Hank Morgan, a 19th century American, is sent back in time to 6th century England and opens up a debate on free will versus determinism and the monarchy versus democracy, as well as urging the reader to consider the consequences of technology gone mad.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sterne travelled extensively in the 1760s, and drew on his experiences to write the narrative of Mr Yorick, the sentimental traveller. This volume demonstrates the rare early satire which marked the beginning of the major phase of Sterne's career.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In its towering central characters, vast geographical & historical sweep, 'Antony & Cleopatra' is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs. Yet the degree & nature of its success remain surprisingly contentious, & performances of the play have seldom matched the extravagant expectations of its admirers.
73) Basil
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This is both the story of a love affair between the Scottish peer, Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and a homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. The author weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and allegory into her romance, whose publication saw her order of exile renewed by Napoleon.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Richly comic yet gravely moral, this is the story of a young provincial girl's initiation into the ways of the world in 18th-century England. It is at once an attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in society, and a love story.
79) Fathers and sons
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Turgenev focuses on Bazarov, the nihilistic hero and the first in a long literary line of angry young men, whose life in turn illuminates the social, political and philosophical issues current in contemporary Russian society.
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