Exploring the life and times of author Robert Louis Stevenson, The Proper Pirate takes readers on a psychological journey from the writer's clerical and constricted upbringing to a life of imagination ... 続きを読む
A new edition of Dickens's journalistic sketches published under this title in their most complete form in 1890
A wonderful evocation of Victorian city life, the 37 essays combine reportage with ... 続きを読む
The Victorian Baby in Print: Infancy, Infant Care, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture explores the representation of babyhood in Victorian Britain. The first study to focus exclusively on the baby ... 続きを読む
The Browne volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a comprehensive selection of the work of the author of some of the most brilliant and delirious prose in English Literature. Lauded b ... 続きを読む
Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary c ... 続きを読む
Introduces students to the life and work of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist, critic, autobiographer, and addict
Offers the most comprehensive selection of De Quincey's writings ... 続きを読む
Richard Rolle, the Yorkshire hermit and scholar (d. 1349) wrote two commentaries on the Psalms, one in Latin and one in English. Some fifty years after he died, his English commentary was revised by a ... 続きを読む
The Scale of Perfection is the major work of the late fourteenth-century contemplative writer, Walter Hilton, an Augustinian canon, presumed to have studied canon law at Cambridge before renouncing a ... 続きを読む
A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has mad ... 続きを読む
What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals? This book shows how an appreciation of human-animal similarity and a literature of c ... 続きを読む
