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The Russian Master and other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Title | The Russian Master and other Stories |
Author | Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | Oxford Paperbacks |
Release | 2008-10-09 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 256 |
ISBN | 9780199554874 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
These stories are translated with an Introduction by Ronald Hingley. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Russian Master and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Title | The Russian Master and Other Stories |
Author | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Release | 1999 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 233 |
ISBN | 9780192836878 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Tells the stories of a newly married provincial schoolteacher, a landowner who dreams of utopia, a philanderer who, for the first time, falls in love, and a doomed love affair
The Russian master by Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhov
Title | The Russian master |
Author | Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhov |
Publisher | |
Release | 1990 |
Category | |
Total Pages | 233 |
ISBN | |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by graf Leo Tolstoy
Title | The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories |
Author | graf Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Release | 2015 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 218 |
ISBN | 0199669880 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
"No one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied." As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid parables and "The Forged Coupon", a tale of criminality, explore class relations after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the connection between an ethical life and worldly issues. In "Master and Workman" Tolstoy creates one of his most gripping dramas about human relationships put to the test in an extreme situation. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is an existential masterpiece, a biting satire that recounts with extraordinary power the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer. In his Introduction Andrew Kahn explores Tolstoy's moral concerns and the stylistic features of these late stories, sensitively translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Title | Master and Man and Other Stories |
Author | Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Release | 2005-06-30 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 0141913665 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, 'What Men Live By' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and 'Two Old Men' shows a peasant abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his neighbours. And in the highly moving 'Master and Man', Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal - little realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker.
The Steppe and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Title | The Steppe and Other Stories |
Author | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Release | 1998 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 253 |
ISBN | 9780192836984 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Edited and translated by: Hingley, Ronald (St Anthony's College, Oxford).
The Steppe and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Title | The Steppe and Other Stories |
Author | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Release | 1991 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 348 |
ISBN | |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Anton Chekhov widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The Steppe–the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures–a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility–on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Title | Frankenstein |
Author | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Release | 2008-08-14 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 272 |
ISBN | 0191579629 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture—the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Ladies Paradise by Émile Zola
Title | The Ladies Paradise |
Author | Émile Zola |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Release | 2012-10-04 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 480 |
ISBN | 0191663484 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, the store's owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu, he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to be commodified. This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest novels of the modern city. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Title | Around the World in Eighty Days |
Author | Jules Verne |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Release | 2008-09-11 |
Category | Fiction |
Total Pages | 304 |
ISBN | 0199552517 |
Language | English, Spanish, and French |
Book Summary:
In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes.