This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde`s brilliant story-telling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of The Happy Prince and Other Tales, A House of Pomegranates, Lord Arthur Savile`s Crim and Other Stories, Poems in Prose, and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde`s fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionable London society as a drawing-room raconteur. Many of the character types now familiar from his comedies first emerged in these stories, along with his gifted use of...
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings - on-page and facing-page commentary and notes explain language and allusions - detailed introductions consider the sonnets` biographical and literary background, how the poems relate to the plays, dating and textual matters, and the mysteries of `Mr W. H.` and the `Dark Lady` - includes poems attributed to Shakespeare in the seventeenth century - full index to introductions and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use `not simply a better text but a...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953579-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
2 classic books for the price of 1: Vintage Fear is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm and Angela Carter`s groundbreaking reworking of these stories, The Bloody Chamber. Vintage Fear is just one of ten Vintage Classic Twins to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each pair have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking combination. The Complete Fairy Tales: The folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world loved by millions of readers from their childhoods....
ISBN: 978-0-09-951142-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
The complete collection of Isaac Asimov`s classic Robot stories. In these stories, Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age - when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind. The Complete Robot is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov`s Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with suprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in
The complete course for a fun and effective way to learn German. This best-selling course comprises a book and audio support which is easy to download to your MP3 player or iPod (components available separately).
ISBN: 978-1-4441-0008-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Are you looking for a complete course in Spanish which will take you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Spanish Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The course is structured in 25 thematic units and the emphasis is placed on communication, so that you effortlessly progress from introducing yourself and dealing with everyday situations, to using the phone and talking about work. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B2 of the Common...
ISBN: 978-1-4441-0001-3
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jane Austen is without question, one of England`s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature`s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey"; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in "Mansfield Park"; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in "Sense and Sensibility"; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in "Persuasion" succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-556-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, and providing an official PET past exam paper from Cambridge ESOL, Complete PET is the most authentic exam preparation course available. Each unit of the Student\`s Book covers one part of each PET paper and provides thorough practice for the exam. Grammar and vocabulary exercises target areas that cause most problems for PET candidates, based on data taken from real candidate scripts on the Cambridge Learner Corpus. The CD-ROM provides additional exam style practice. A Student\`s Book with answers, a Teacher\`s Book, Workbooks (with and without answers) and Class Audio CDs are also available.
ISBN: 978-0-521-74648-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2011
The Complete Photo Guide to Window Treatments makes it easy to choose and construct today`s most popular window treatments - 20 styles of valances, swags, and cornices; 20 styles of curtains and draperies; plus 10 types of window shades. Room photographs show each style in a variety of decorating styles, fabrics, and hardware. Each project has step-by-step instructions from beginning to end: measuring the window, cutting the fabric with confidence, sewing or constructing the project, and installing the treatment the professional way. Over 500 how-to photographs and diagrams make it easy to have professional results. This is the big book of DIY window treatments!
ISBN: 978-1-58923-294-5
Издательство:
Creative Publishing International
Дата выхода: август 2011
Complete Preliminary 2nd edition is the most thorough preparation for the revised B1 Preliminary. Complete is trusted by millions of candidates worldwide. This course allows you to maximise performance with the Complete approach to language development and exam training. Build confidence through our unique understanding of the exam and insights from previous candidate performance, and the Complete exam journey for successful and stress-free outcomes. Online Practice offers additional practice in grammar and vocabulary. Class Audio contains the listening material for the Student`s Book available as a download. The Workbook without answers provides further practice of language and vocabulary introduced in the Student`s Book and includes...
ISBN: 9781108525305
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2020
COMPLETE KEY FOR SCHOOLS is an official preparation course for CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: KEY FOR SCHOOLS. It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with engaging topics aimed at younger students. The information, practice and advice contained in the course ensure that they are fully prepared for all parts of the test, with strategies and skills to maximise their score. Informed by Cambridge`s unique searchable database of real exam papers, the Cambridge English Corpus, COMPLETE KEY FOR SCHOOLS includes examples and exercises which tackle common problem areas at this level, making it the most authoritative Key for Schools preparation course available. COMPLETE KEY FOR SCHOOLS: STUDENT`S BOOK WITHOUT ANSWERS features: - 14...
ISBN: 978-0-521-12470-6
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: февраль 2015
"The Chronicles of Narnia" have enchanted millions of readers over the last sixty years and the magical events described in C.S.Lewis`s immortal prose have left many a lasting memory. For here is a world where a witch decrees eternal winter, where there are more talking animals than people, and where battles are fought by Centaurs, Giants and Fauns. Now all seven Chronicles are bound together in this one magnificent volume with a personal introduction by Douglas Gresham, stepson of C.S.Lewis. Pauline Baynes` original and much-loved illustrations have been made even more memorable by the addition of colour. This spectacular gift edition will guarantee that C.S.Lewis`s timeless world of Narnia will catch the imagination of yet another...
A collection of 52 pieces of writing displaying Woody Allen's own brand of humour. Allen's three outrageously funny collections in one volume Complete Prose brings together Allen's three outrageously funny collections, Without Feathers, Getting Even and Side Effects. "No 500-page book ever contained a laugh a line, but this one gets pretty close". Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 978-0-330-32821-0
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
Complete First Second edition is an official preparation course for Cambridge English: First, also known as First Certificate in English (FCE). It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with first-hand knowledge of the challenges students face. The information, practice and advice contained in the course ensure that they are fully prepared for all parts of the test, with strategies and skills to maximise their score. Informed by Cambridge`s unique searchable database of real exam candidates` answer papers, the Cambridge English Corpus, Complete First Second edition trains students to avoid common exam mistakes, guaranteeing teachers and students the most authoritative preparation for Cambridge English: First. Complete...
Since tales of his exploits began appearing in The New Yorker more than thirty years ago, Henry Bech, John Updike`s playfully irreverent alter-ego, has charmed readers with his aesthetic dithering and his seemingly inexhaustible libido. The Bech stories - collected in one volume for the first time, and featuring a final, series-capping story, His Oeuvre - cast an affectionate eye on the famously unproductive Jewish-American writer, offering up a stream of wit, whimsy, and lyric pungency unmatched in American letters. From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator together in a single bumper volume, with a great new Quentin Blake cover and a new end section about Roald Dahl.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132272-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lewis Carroll is best known for his two books describing Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, but he was a prolific author of fantasy and nonsense verse, which are represented here in the complete Sylvie and Bruno and The Hunting of the Snark. Also included are early verse, Puzzles from Wonderland, prologues to plays, Phantasmagoria, college rhymes and notes, acrostics, inscriptions, Three Sunsets and other poems. Illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, Henry Holliday and Harry Furniss, the book is bound in real cloth, with head and tail bands, a ribbon marker, top edge gilt and a gold-blocked jacket.
ISBN: 978-1-905716-84-5
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Who was Nostradamus, and what faith should we place in his predictions? This book gives objective answers. It reveals that Michel de Nostredame, a 16th-century French doctor, was more Renaissance man than arcane magician - and that his prognostications can be compellingly astute. In this edition all of the cryptic short verses of Nostradamus`s "Centuries" appear in the original French, with new translations. Uncanny prophecies such as those of the French Revolution and the rise of Hitler are examined in detail. Here too are interpretations of the many verses believed to augur future events. Editor Ned Halley works in fields of journalism as diverse as medicine, wine and business. He takes a Plain English approach to `a subject far too...
ISBN: 1-8402-2301-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1999
