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Can You Believe it? Stories and Idioms from Real Life: Book 3
Автор: Huizenga Jann Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2000 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20092005-08-03
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Memorable readings from true life combined with idioms and vocabulary development.
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Can You Believe it? Stories and Idioms from Real Life: Book 1
Автор: Huizenga Jann Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2000 Страниц: 126 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092005-08-17
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Memorable readings from true life combined with idioms and vocabulary development.
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Can You Believe it? Stories and Idioms from Real Life: Book 2
Автор: Huizenga Jann Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2000 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20092005-08-03
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Memorable readings from true life combined with idioms and vocabulary development.
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Basic English Usage
Автор: Swan Michael Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2002 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092005-04-22
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An alphabetical guide to the most common problems of grammar and vocabulary.
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At Your Service: Workbook
Автор: Duckworth Michael Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1996 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20091997-12-26
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This workbook accompanies a short course for those training to work in areas of the tourism industry where basic fluency in English is essential. Each unit explores a different communicative area, such as answering the telephone and giving information to customers, and introduces and gives practice in the grammatical structures and vocabulary required. The emphasis is on developing listening and speaking skills, but practice is also given in reading and writing skills, with such examples as reading timetables, taking simple messages, and completing application forms.
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Achieve 2: Teacher's Book
Автор: Wheeldon Sylvia Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-07-23
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The course for older teenagers that equips students thoroughly for school-leaving exams through grammar and vocabulary consolidation and fully-supported independent study.
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Achieve 1: Teacher's Book
Автор: Wheeldon Sylvia Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-07-23
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The course for older teenagers that equips students thoroughly for school-leaving exams through grammar and vocabulary consolidation and fully-supported independent study.
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George Eliot
Автор: Dolin Tim Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness' of Eliot's fiction. Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss reflect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the variety of ways in which 'George Eliot' has been recontextualized for modern readers, tourists, cinema-goers, and television viewers. The book includes a chronology of Eliot's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index.
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Selected Letters
Автор: Keats John Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-02-19
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Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development. According to T. S. Eliot, Keats's letters are the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet. They represent one of the most sustained reflections on the poet's art we have from any of the major English poets. Yet quite apart from the light they throw on the poetry, they are great works of literature in their own right. Written with gusto and occasionally painful candor, they show a powerful intelligence struggling to come to terms with its own mortality. Sometimes bitterly jealous in love and socially and financially insecure, at others playful and confident of his own greatness, Keats interweaves his personal plight with the history of a Britain emerging from the long years of the Napoleonic Wars into a world of political unrest, profound social change, and commercial expansion.
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Selected Essays
Автор: Woolf Virginia Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20122013-09-24
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A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out. According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay is simply that it should give pleasure... It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its last. One of the best practitioners of the art she analysed so rewardingly, Woolf displayed her essay-writing skills across a wide range of subjects, with all the craftsmanship, substance, and rich allure of her novels. This selection brings together thirty of her best essays, including the famous Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, a clarion call for modern fiction. She discusses the arts of writing and of reading, and the particular role and reputation of women writers. She writes movingly about her father and the art of biography, and of the London scene in the early decades of the twentieth century. Overall, these pieces are as indispensable to an understanding of this great writer as they are enchanting in their own right.
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Selected Tales
Автор: Grimm Jacob Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-05-12
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Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window... The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and princesses, witches and robbers, millers and golden birds, stepmothers and talking frogs. Regarded from their inception both as uncosy nursery stories and as raw material for the folklorist the tales were in fact compositions, collected from literate tellers and shaped into a distinctive kind of literature. This new translation mirrors the apparent artlessness of the Grimms, and fully represents the range of less well-known fables, morality tales, and comic stories as well as the classic tales. It takes the stories back to their roots in German Romanticism and includes variant stories and tales that were deemed unsuitable for children. In her fascinating introduction, Joyce Crick explores their origins, and their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms.
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The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob
Автор: Eliot George Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112011-05-06
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She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things. The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology and experiments in revification it is Eliot's anatomy of her own moral philsophy — the ideal of imaginative sympathy or the ability to see into others' minds and emotions. Narrated by an egoccentric, morbid young clairvoyant man whose fascination for Bertha Grant lies partly in her obliquity, the story also explores fiction's ability to offer insight into the self, as well as being a remarkable portrait of a misdeveloped artist whose visionary powers merely blight his life. The Lifted Veil is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works. Published as a companion piece to The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob is by contrast Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading.Yet both stories reveal Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception of them and the boundaries of art and the self. Helen Small's introduction casts new light on works which fully deserve to be read alongside Eliot's novels.
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Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century
Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it. Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and profane, passionate and satirical, these remarkable and innovative poems explore the complexities of human emotion and ponder the great questions of religion and art. They form as rich a body of work as any one age and language has ever produced. This unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarme. Modern translations are printed opposite the original French verse, and the edition contains over a thousand lines of poetry never previously translated into English.
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Victory
Автор: Conrad Joseph Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132011-05-22
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Victory, don't forget, has come out of my innermost self. Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled An Island Tale, it tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island of Samburan. But Heyst's solitary existence ends when he rescues an English girl from her rapacious patron and takes her off to his retreat. She in turn recalls him to love and life, until the world breaks in on them once more with tragic consequences. In this love story Conrad created two of his psychologically most complex and compelling characters in a narrative of great erotic power. This new edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography.
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Selected Writings
Автор: Hazlitt William Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-02-19
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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama and art, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. Praised for his eloquence, he was also reviled by conservatives for his radical politics. This edition, thematically organized for ease of access, contains some of his best-known essays, such as The Indian Jugglers and The Fight, as well as more obscure pieces on politics, philosophy, and culture.
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The Bride of Lammermoor
Автор: Sir Walter Scott Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20112010-12-20
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The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy's beautiful daughter Lucy. First published in 1819, this intricate and searching romantic tragedy offers challenging insights into emotional and sexual politics, and demonstrates the shrewd way in which Scott presented his work as historical document, entertainment, and work of art.
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Round Dance and Other Plays
Автор: Schnitzler Arthur Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122013-03-26
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This is a unique collection of seven of Schnitzler`s best known plays in a new English translation. They explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Viennese decadence. The introduction explores the plays in relation to Schnitzler`s life, to the culture of late twentieth-century Vienna, and to Modernism in general.
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Rob Roy
Автор: Sir Walter Scott Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112010-10-23
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For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of the novel's hero, Frank Osbaldistone, on his journey through the wild northern territories of the new United Kingdom. Banished from his father's house, falling hopelessly in love with the spirited Diana Vernon, Frank becomes involved in he conspiracy surrounding the disastrous Jacobite rising of 1715. His adventures take him to MacGregor's country, across the Highland Line, where he finds cruelty, heartbreak, and some unlikely friends. By turns thrilling and comic, Rob Roy contains Scott's most sophisticated treatment of the Scottish Highlands as an imaginary space where the modern and the primitive come together. Newly edited from the Magnum Opus text of 1830, this edition includes full explanatory notes and a critical introduction exploring the originality and complexity of Scott's achievement.
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The Doctor's Wife
Автор: Mary Elizabeth Braddon Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112011-04-15
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Isabel Gilbert was not a woman of the world. She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers... she believed in a phantasmal world created out of the pages of poets and romancers. The Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores her heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life married to a good natured but bovine husband who seems incapable of understanding his wife's imaginative life and feelings. A woman with a secret, adultery, death and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements which combine to make The Doctor's Wife a classic women's sensation novel. Yet, The Doctor's Wife is also a self-consciously literary novel, in which Braddon attempts to transcend the sensation genre. This is the only edition of a fascinating and engrossing work, and reproduces uncut the first three-volume edition of 1864.
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Life's Little Ironies
Автор: Hardy Thomas Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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The phrase 'life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for this, his third volume of short stories. While the tales and sketches reflect many of the strengths and themes of the great novels, they are powerful works in their own right. Unified by his quintessential irony, strong visual sense, and engaging characters, they deal with the tragic and the humorous, the metaphysical and the magical. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy's art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism, and from the loving re-creation of a vanished rural world to the repressions of fin-de-siecle bourgeois life.
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