The Samuel Johnson volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a generous selection of Johnson's most important writings, drawn from all periods of his life. It reflects almost completely ... 続きを読む
On 23 April 1916, Oxford University Press published a magnificent volume entitled A Book of Homage to Shakespeare, edited by Professor Israel Gollancz. Created to mark the Tercentenary of Shakespeare' ... 続きを読む
This Glossary, designed as a practical aid to the reading of Chaucer, is intended to be serviceable with any of the widely read editions. Its primary aim is to explain the meanings of words and phrase ... 続きを読む
Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of ... 続きを読む
Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of ... 続きを読む
The Jago had got him, and it held him fast.'
In the worst of London's East End slums, in an area called the Jago, young Dicky Perrott is used to a life of poverty, crime, and violence. Gang warfa ... 続きを読む
A new single-volume edition of all Dickens's Christmas books, with a selection of the original illustrations and a full critical introdution.
New edition includes a selection of 20 of the origina ... 続きを読む
A single-volume edition of all Dickens's Christmas books, with a selection of 20 the original illustrations and a full critical introduction.
An excellent introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ... 続きを読む
The first new edition of A Clergyman's Daughter in over 30 years
Features a 10,000-word introduction exploring the novel's main themes and setting it in historical context.
Extensivel ... 続きを読む
Catullus, one of the most Hellenizing, scandalous, and emotionally expressive of the Roman poets, burst onto the British cultural scene during the Romantic era. It was not until this socially, politic ... 続きを読む
