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Sylvia's Lovers
Автор: Gaskell Elizabeth Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2000 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092002-10-20
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A moving tale of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, set in the time of Napoleon, against the tensions of wartime. As the author depicts Sylvia's fateful decision to marry one man while loving the other, she deftly interweaves the eternal themes of jealousy, unrequited love, and the consequences of individual choice.
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Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Автор: Hays Mary Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2001 Страниц: 266 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092004-02-23
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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.
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Huntingtower
Автор: Buchan John Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 260 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20122013-03-16
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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.
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The Princesse de Cleves
Автор: Madame De La Fayette Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 274 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092004-08-03
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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.
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The Adventures of Roderick Random
Автор: Smollett Tobias Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2002 Страниц: 520 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092006-03-29
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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.
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The Romance of the Forest
Автор: Radcliffe Ann Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 429 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092001-07-28
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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
Автор: Collins Wilkie Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2000 Страниц: 476 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092003-09-30
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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.
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Germinal
Автор: Zola Emile Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1998 Страниц: 574 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20091999-12-20
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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.
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The Blithedale Romance
Автор: Hawthorne Nathaniel Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 306 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20092001-07-14
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«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.»
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
Автор: Engels Friedrich Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092001-05-16
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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.
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Greenmantle
Автор: Buchan John Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20092000-06-05
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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.
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Greek Lyric Poetry
Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092001-07-18
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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.
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Orlando Furioso
Автор: Ariosto Ludovico Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 646 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092003-03-12
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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.
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Nana
Автор: Zola Emile Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 462 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092002-02-29
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This new translation is an accurate and stylish rendering of Zola's original, which was first published in 1880.
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Aurora Leigh
Автор: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1998 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20092000-05-26
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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.
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A Sentimental Education
Автор: Flaubert Gustave Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2000 Страниц: 524 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20092005-08-03
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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.
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Three Tales
Автор: Flaubert Gustave Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 140 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092000-06-15
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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.
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The Story of an African Farm
Автор: Schreiner Olive Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1999 Страниц: 322 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092001-07-14
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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.
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King John
Автор: Shakespeare William Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2003 Страниц: 314 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20092006-09-27
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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.
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What Maisie Knew
Автор: James Henry Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 1998 Страниц: 330 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20092001-02-16
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What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child's capacity for intelligent wonder, James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie inspires James to dwell with extraordinary acuteness on the things that may pass between adult and child. In addition to a new introduction, this edition of the novel offers particularly detailed notes, bibliography, and a list of variant readings.
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