In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave Tolstoy the starting point he needed for composing what many believe to be the ... 続きを読む
Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations is as fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when it was first published in 1862. The controversial portrait of Bazarov, the en ... 続きを読む
Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his Queen refuse to receive him! You, an earl's daughter! Oh, Isabel! How utterly you have lost yourself!'
When the aristocratic Lady ... 続きを読む
To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.'
Lord ... 続きを読む
Attractive new setting using English first edition text for this outsanding edition by acclaimed Conrad scholar Cedric Watts
Features new chronology and bibliography
A unique combination of Con ... 続きを読む
'Fear no more the heat of the sun.'
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conse ... 続きを読む
A new edition that draws on the scholarship of the Oxford English Texts edition for both text and editorial apparatus.
Reproduces the critically established 1891 text from the OET edition.
Jose ... 続きを読む
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distin ... 続きを読む
A major new translation of the supreme authority in Islam, published at a time of intense interest in the Islamic religion and the Muslim world.
The translation is accurate, easy to read and free ... 続きを読む
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecti ... 続きを読む
