The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hi ... 続きを読む
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of th ... 続きを読む
a book I prize next to the Bible' Robert Burns Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true vir ... 続きを読む
This was Kipling's first published volume of fiction. The stories with their brevity and concentration of effect are a landmark in the history of the short story. *ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years ... 続きを読む
How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told"? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. Kipling's ima ... 続きを読む
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, Mai ... 続きを読む
A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo w ... 続きを読む
This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition. *ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has ... 続きを読む
This volume includes "Daisy Miller", "Pandora", "The Patagonia", and "Four Meetings". *ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature fr ... 続きを読む
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august ... 続きを読む
