The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a p ... 続きを読む
New edition of Defoe's masterpiece, using the authoritative text, based with emendations on the first edition and incorporating new critical introduction by Thomas Keymer and the most substantial e ... 続きを読む
I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism'
James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the functions ... 続きを読む
John Keats's abiding poetic legacy is one of extraordinary and triumphant richness. Before the moment of 'self-will' when he declared his intention to be a poet, Keats (1795-1821) had chosen the medic ... 続きを読む
Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violen ... 続きを読む
Guy de Maupassant; Margaret Mauldon; Robert Lethbridge
ページ
368 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
129 x 195 mm
刊行日
2008年09月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre
Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-A ... 続きを読む
The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, M ... 続きを読む
This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill's great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary chapters on socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to ... 続きを読む
we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia'
The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories o ... 続きを読む
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 sav ... 続きを読む
