Автор: Hoffmann Название: The Golden Pot and Other Tales ISBN: 0192837230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192837233 Издательство: Oxford Academ Цена: 1741.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of these tales is a result of the incongruity of supernatural beings at large in an ostentatiously everyday world.
They include The Golden Pot, recognized as Hoffmann's masterpiece by himself and posterity; its spine-chilling companion tale, The Sandman, which Offenbach drew on for his opera Tales of Hoffmann, and which Freud examines in his essay 'The Uncanny'; two longer and more elaborate fantasies, set respectively in Germany and Italy; and the late story, My Cousin's Corner Window, which shows the powers of the imagination being applied to everyday urban life, and marks a transition in European literature generally from Romanticism to Realism. Ritchie Robertson's detailed introduction places the stories in their intellectual and historical context and explores their compelling narrative complexities.
Автор: Dickens Charles Название: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books ISBN: 0199536309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536306 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens`s four other Christmas Books: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man.
Автор: Polidori, John Название: Vampyre and other tales of the macabre ISBN: 019955241X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199552412 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1741.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `The Vampyre` was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume - a companion to Tales of Terror from Blackwood`s Magazine in World`s Classics - selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838. It includes Edward Bulwer`s chilling account of the doppelganger, Letitia Landon`s elegant reworking of the Gothic romance, William Carleton`sterrifying description of an actual lynching, and James Hogg`s ghoulish exploitation of the cholera epidemic of 1831-2.
Автор: Jack London Название: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories ISBN: 0199538891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538898 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Of all Jack London`s fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog`s adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous short stories - `Batard`, `Moon-Face`, `Brown Wolf`, `That Spot`, and `To Build a Fire`.
Автор: Conrad Название: Heart of Darkness and Other Tales ISBN: 0199536015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536016 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `Heart of Darkness` is Conrad`s finest tale and tells of Marlow`s journey up the Congo River to meet Mr Kurtz. This volume also includes `An Outpost of Progress`, `Karain`, and `Youth` in a revised edition using the English first edition texts and with new chronology and bibliography.
Автор: Twain Mark Название: Pudd`nhead Wilson and Other Tales ISBN: 0199554714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199554713 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein
than his other Mississippi writings, the novel reveals the sinister forces that Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. In spite of a plot which includes child swapping,
palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial differences.
This volume also includes two other late works 'Those Extraordinary
Twins' and 'The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg'.
Описание: When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children`s and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, sinc
Автор: James Название: The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories ISBN: 0199536171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536177 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1107.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master`s dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - `Sir Edmund Orme`, `Owen Wingrave`, and `The Friends of the Friends` - `The Turn of the Screw` is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess`s `infernal imagination`, which torments but also entrals her? `The Turn of the Screw` is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, `the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read`? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes.
Автор: Apuleius Название: The Golden Ass ISBN: 0199540551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199540556 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis. This new translation is at once faithful to the meaning of the Latin, whilst reproducing all the exuberant gaiety of the original.
Автор: Schwitters Kurt Название: Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales ISBN: 0691160996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691160993 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2216.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. This book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters` death in 1948.
Автор: Stevenson Название: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales ISBN: 0199536228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536221 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1107.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Stevenson`s short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare, that has thrilled readers ever since. Also included in this edition are a number of short stories and essays of the 1880s and extracts from writings on personality disorder that set the works in their historical context.
Автор: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich Название: First love and other stories ISBN: 0199540403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199540402 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1741.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this collection includes First Love, Asya, Mumu, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Song of Triumphant Love, and King Lear of the Steppes. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Автор: Constantine, Helen Название: Berlin Tales ISBN: 0199559384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199559381 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this attractive collection of translated stories evokes the many transformations the city has undergone. Including both well-known and new writers, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love Berlin.
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