Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarerare among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included ... 続きを読む
This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.
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Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle mor ... 続きを読む
The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. It was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative crit ... 続きを読む
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete Humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of m ... 続きを読む
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
