Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died'
Like Romeo an ... 続きを読む
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol; Christopher English; Richard Peace
ページ
400 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
131 x 196 mm
刊行日
2008年10月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the ... 続きを読む
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' ... 続きを読む
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories is the question 'What happened to these fifteen-year-old ... 続きを読む
Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon
Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the boo ... 続きを読む
Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy ... 続きを読む
I shall never forget the day I wrote "The Mark on the Wall" - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. "The Unwritten Novel" was the great discovery, however. That - ... 続きを読む
I evidently saw that unless the great God of his infinite grace and bounty, had voluntarily chosen me to be a vessel of mercy, though I should desire, and long, and labour until my heart did break, no ... 続きを読む
Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called ... 続きを読む
he sat down and wept, to think that even the rams knew more about the deeds of love than he did'
Daphnis is fifteen years old, Chloe thirteen. They are drawn to each other and long to make love. B ... 続きを読む
