A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

This volume includes 'The Battle of the Books' and 'The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit', both which accompanied 'A Tale of a Tub' on its first publication in 1704. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the

Modest Proposal and Other Writings (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

A new selection of works by Britain's foremost prose satirist Easing poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical 'solution' suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay 'A Modest Proposal' (1729). Here Swift unleashes the full power of his ironic armory and corrosive wit,

The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (Quiroga Horacio)(Paperback)

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in

A Modest Proposal and Other Writings (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

In response to the dire economic conditions in eighteenth-century Ireland, A Modest Proposal ironically exhorts the poor to provide their offspring as food to the rich. Skilfully applying a wealth of classical rhetorical techniques, Swift's satirical tour de force takes a savage swipe at the

Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

In the strange countries of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver meets some extraordinary people and remarkable creatures. From a race of miniature folk to some surprisingly gentle giants and wise horses, Gulliver sees society from many different perspectives. Back

Not Safe After Dark - And Other Works (Robinson Peter)(Paperback / softback)

A chilling collection of short tales from the author of the bestselling Inspector Banks

The Tales of Ise (MacMillan Peter)(Paperback)

One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature--a beautiful collection of poems and tales that offers an unparalleled insight into ancient JapanAlong with the Tale of Genji and One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, the Tales of Ise is considered one of the three most important works of Japanese

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (Damrosch Leo)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography: The life of satirist Jonathan Swift, written by a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature 'Superb. . . . Damrosch's outstanding book has raised Swift's provocative genius to life.'--Jeffrey Collins,

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings (Pope Alexander)(Paperback)

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics. Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose

Heart of Darkness and Other Tales (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr. Kurtz. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz,

Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers

Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining

Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works (Diderot Denis)(Paperback / softback)

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (Bakhtin M. M.)(Paperback)

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in

Gulliver's Travels: And Verses on Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback)

'Gulliver's Travels' describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the

England and Other Stories (Swift Graham)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of new stories from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Ordersand

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short story Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's

The Odyssey (Homer)(Paperback)

The epic tale of Odysseus's journey home - one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in

A World Below (King Wesley)(Paperback)

'A swift-paced survival tale that's a cool blend of Lord of the Flies and Journey to the Center of the Earth.' --School Library Journal 'A sharp meditation on the seemingly universal difficulties of being young, smart, and uncertain.' --BCCB 'A multifaceted journey from darkness to light.' --Kirkus

The Guardians of Iceland and other Icelandic Folk Tales (Herman Heidi)(Paperback)

This collection of Icelandic fairy tales and legends comes from the days of the Vikings. These stories of trolls, magic, Hidden People, and creatures from the sea were passed down from generation to generation, told on cold winter nights in front of the fire before being written down a hundred

Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Yalom Irvin D.)(Paperback)

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERAn 'utterly absorbing' collection of ten classic tales from the therapist's chair by renowned psychiatrist and best-selling author Irvin D. Yalom (Newsday)Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma spend her whole life raking over a

Gulliver's Travels (Swift Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that change his view of humanity - and himself - for

Gen (Edwards Jonathan)(Paperback)

Gen is the eagerly awaited second collection by Jonathan Edwards, whose debut, My Family and Other Superheroes, won the Costa Prize for Poetry in 2015. This accessible and critically acclaimed young poet has beaten off 'second collection syndrome' with a book of sharp yet beautifully warm and