The Golden pot and other tales, Hoffmann, E.t.a.

Автор: Hoffmann
Название: The Golden Pot and Other Tales
ISBN: 0192837230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192837233
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Цена: 11610 T
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'.

Автор: Grimm Jacob Ludwig Carl, Grimm Wilhelm
Название: The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition
ISBN: 0691160597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691160597
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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
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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
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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: Woolf, Virginia
Название: Mark on the wall & other short fiction
ISBN: 0199554994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199554997
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Описание: The fifteen stories in this volume include the only collection of short fiction Woolf published in her lifetime, the eight stories published as `Monday and Tuesday`, together with seven later stories. Without these bold and experimental forays into the short story she would never have become the great modernist novelist. Essential to her development as a novelist, these stories are among the most interesting and accomplished fictions she wrote.

Автор: Balzac, Honore de
Название: The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories
ISBN: 0199571287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199571284
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Описание: The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationship between artistic ideals and sexual desires. They show Balzac`s mastery of the seductions of storytelling, and are among the 19th century`s richest explorations of life and art.

Автор: Schwitters Kurt
Название: Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales
ISBN: 0691160996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691160993
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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
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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.