Oxford Basics. Simple Writing Activities. Jill Hadfield, Charles Hadfield All the activities are simple and adaptable. This book contains 30 activities at elementary level, complete with ideas for boardwork and pictures teachers can copy. Из серии: Oxford Basics
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Oxford Basics Intermediate Cultural Activites. Michaela Cankova The activities are quick and easy to prepare and require few, or no, additional resources. Thirty simple activities designed to inform and give practice in discussing cultural topics with classes up to intermediate level. Из серии: Oxford
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Oxford Activity Books for Children 6. Clark Christopher These creative activities for grammar and vocabulary practice, help develop reading and writing skills. Oxford Activity Books for Children: Book 6 is a creative activity book for young children. 1985.
The Masterpiece. Эмиль Золя Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. The tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius.
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The Aeneid. Марон Публий Вергилий The Trojan hero Aeneas, after surviving the sack of Troy, makes his way to the West, urged on by benevolent deities and following a destiny laid down by Jupiter, but harassed and impeded by the goddess Juno. The supreme Roman epic and the greatest
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Rachel Ray. Anthony Trollope The novel first appeared in 1863, a year in which public reaction against the excesses of the popular sensationalist novel prompted Trollope to state that he was writing about "the commonest details of commonplace life among the most ordinary
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Can You Forgive Her?. Энтони Троллоп Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. In this book, the first of six Palliser novels, Trollope inextricably binds together the issues of parliamentary election and marriage, of politics and privacy.
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The Mabinogion Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion.
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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth. Уильям Шекспир Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for
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The Oxford Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. Уильям Шекспир The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March" and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives
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Round Dance and Other Plays. Артур Шницлер Round Dance, written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in Vienna with such witty frankness that it could not be staged until after the First World War, when it provoked a riot in the theatre and a prosecution for indecency. The playwright
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The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata: The Massacre at Night One of the vanquished, Asvatthaman, carries out his threat to massacre the victorious army as it sleeps, and then unleashes a weapon of total destruction. In this, the tenth book of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata, the war has finally ended
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Indiana. Жорж Санд It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. Indiana (1831) is an absorbing and vivid romantic novel, set partly in provincial France, partly in Paris, and partly on a tropical island. It is
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Republic. Платон The sole purpose is to bring out what Plato meant, not to attack or defend his opinions. This version aims at conveying to the English reader as much as possible of the thought of the Republic in the most convenient and least misleading form. Из
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Metamorphoses. Публий Назон Овидий Comprised of over fifty stories, it chronicles the legends of King Midus, Daedalus, Icarus, Hercules, and the Trojan War, making this the definitive work of classical mythology. This cohesive collection of stories from Greek and Roman mythology
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Persian Letters. Шарль Луи Монтескье In their letters home they report on visits to the theatre and scientific societies, and observe the manners and flirtations of polite society, the structures of power and the hypocrisy of religion. Two Persian travellers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in
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On Liberty and Other Essays. John Stuart Mill Contrary to the common view, these essays show Mill to be a systematic and consistent thinker rather than the muddled eclectic of traditional interpretations. The four essays here collected, for the first time, in a single volume, show Mill
John Barleycorn: "Alcoholic Memoirs". Джек Лондон But throughout his colorful life–from his teenage years as an oyster pirate to his various incarnations as a well-traveled seaman, Yukon gold prospector, waterfront brawler, unemployed vagrant, impassioned socialist, and celebrated writer–he
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The Monk. Мэтью Грегори Льюис The struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal
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Daodejing. Лао-цзы It encapsulates the main tenets of Daoism, and upholds a way of being as well as a philosophy and a religion. "The best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and the
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Lancelot Of The Lake. Corin F. V. Corley Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. Translated for the first time into English, the Old French prose poem is a classic of European literature and has influenced such diverse figures as Dante, T.H. White, and the makers of the 1967 film
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Les Liaisons dangereuses. Шодерло де Лакло Its prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil--gifted, wealthy, and bored--form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game. The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782)
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Kim. Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг Deeply devoted to an old Tibetan lama but involved in a secret mission for the British, Kim struggles to weave the strands of his life into a single pattern. Kimball O’Hara grows up an orphan in the walled city of Lahore, India. Из серии:
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Ulysses. Джеймс Джойс, James Joyce In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a
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The Awkward Age. Генри Джеймс Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2009. Henry James had arrived at such mastery of the forms and uses of fiction by the time he published The Awkward Age in 1899 that this story of a young girl introduced into a casually corrupt circle of
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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories. Генри Джеймс Into their lives comes and unscrupulous critic, hell-bent on discovering the papers of the late Jeffrey Aspern, a world-famous American poet and, some sixty years before, the lover of Miss Juliana. Venice in the 1880s: the Misses Bordereau have
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion & The Natural History of Religion. Давид Юм No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed most powerfully in
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The Woodlanders. Томас Гарди 2009. In The Woodlanders, his favorite among his own novels, Thomas Hardy created a chain of characters linked by misunderstanding, infidelity and requited love.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge. Томас Гарди When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as the mayor—finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. One of Hardy’s most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Jonathan Wild. Генри Филдинг Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists made connections between his success and the triumph of corruption in high places. The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland
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The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas His daring escape, recovery of Monte Cristo`s fabulous treasure, and revenge on his enemies make this one of the great thrillers of all time. The young sailor Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the
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Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories. Артур Конан Дойл Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. This volume includes Silver Blaze, The Speckled Band, The Sign of Four, A Scandal of Bohemia, The Naval Treaty, The Blue Carbuncle, The Greek Interpreter, The Red-Headed League, The Empty House, The
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A Tale of Two Cities. Чарльз Диккенс With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. " Sidney Carton joins that exhalted group of Dickensian characters who have earned a permanent place in the popular literary imagination. A masterful
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Under Western Eyes. Джозеф Конрад It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny and the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society. Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in
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The Analects. Конфуций Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classical Chinese provides the ideal introduction to the Analects for readers who have no previous knowledge
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The Woman in White. Уильям Уилки Коллинз, Wilkie Collins A gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity, Collins’s psychological thriller has never been out of print in the 140 years since its publication. Generally considered the first English sensation novel, The Woman in White
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The Moonstone. Уильям Уилки Коллинз And when the Moonstone disappears, what seems like a simple case turns into a masterpiece of detection and suspense. A fabulous yellow diamond--an ancient talisman which had been looted from the holy Hindu city of Somnauth--becomes the dangerous
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The Law and the Lady. Уильям Уилки Коллинз Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. In a full-length novel with a woman detective as the heroine, "The Law and the Lady" is a fascinating story of a tangled web of peculiar incidents that follow Valeria Woodvile after she signs her name
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Armadale. Уильям Уилки Коллинз This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women in society. Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Джон Клеланд Из серии: Oxford World`s Classics
2008. Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill.
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Troilus and Criseyde. Джеффри Чосер Later, with the help Pandarus- one of the first great character studies in our literature-Troilus wins her love, only to be betrayed. During the great siege of Troy, Troilus, the son of Priam, sees Criseyde and falls in love with her. Из
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The Thirty-nine Steps. Джон Бучан "
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2008. "He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me - things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top, why alliances were made and broken, why certain
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Huntingtower. Джон Бучан Here, Buchan introduces some of his best-loved characters and paints a remarkable picture of a man rejuvenated by joining much younger comrades in a fight against tyranny and fear. This modern fairy-tale is also the gripping adventure story about
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The Professor. Шарлотта Бронте Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846
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2008. The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Bronte completed.
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Aurora Floyd. Элизабет Брэддон Мэри But in Aurora Floyd, and in many of the novels written in imitation of it, bigamy is little more than a euphemism, a device to enable the heroine, and vicariously the reader, to enjoy the forbidden sweets of adultery without adulterous intentions.
The Bhagavad Gita The nature of its authorship and the means by which it acquired its present form are uncertain, although from internal evidence it is attributed, like the rest of the epic, to the prototypical seer, Vyasa. The Bhagavad Gita is a self-contained