Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on Fleeing from poverty and hardship he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go however hard he tries to escape In Oliver Twist Dickens... Zobraziť viac
In this magical comedy about the difficulties of love, the situation appears to get worse before the play finally moves towards a happy ending. This book also contains files on Greek mythology in the play and on magic in Shakespeare’s time. Zobraziť viac
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story of all time. Set against a backdrop of hate between two rival families, Shakespeare’s play moves towards its tragic conclusion through scenes of fi ghting, love and desperation, ... Zobraziť viac
Monografie Ideando. Búsquedas ideológico-literarias en Hispanoamérica se zabývá ideologickým pozadím tvorby vybraných autorů, které lze zařadit do kategorie... Zobraziť viac
‘Funny, wise, learned and compulsive’ - GQBill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid andNotes from a Big Co Zobraziť viac
A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, ... Zobraziť viac
This title presents Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. This is a superb new verse translation, now published in trade paperback, .. Zobraziť viac
The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights – writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter – whose dark, funny and humane dramas ... Zobraziť viac
The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers... Zobraziť viac
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives.Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and... Zobraziť viac
The course of true love never did run smooth Zobraziť viac
In The Value of Literature, Rafe McGregor employs a unique approach - the combination of philosophical work on value theory and critical work on the relationship between form and content - to present a new argument for, and defence of, literary... Zobraziť viac
Generations of readers have fallen in love with Jane Austen's timeless tales of eighteenth-century English life. Even casual readers comprehend that these classic novels are not just love stories. They offer keen insights into various aspects of the... Zobraziť viac
The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recommended reading lists. This book is a long overdue... Zobraziť viac
This Sourcebook introduces readers not only to Forster's text, but to the contexts within which the novel was written and to crucial trends in the interpretation of the work. Zobraziť viac
This book is the first introduction to unite accessible accounts not only of Beckett's life and work, but of the key literary and theoretical concepts used in the study of his writing. Zobraziť viac
There is a crying need for an accessible, comprehensive guide to John Milton for the thousands of students who make their way through his poetry every year on literary survey and seventeenth century literature courses. Where many previous guides have... Zobraziť viac
Edited by Roger Lonsdale and John Mullan... Zobraziť viac
Ardis questions commonly held views of the radical nature of literary modernism. Zobraziť viac
Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century. Zobraziť viac
