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Télécharger le livre :  The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays


Oscar Wilde


'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.' The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) proclaims that it is 'A Trivial Play for Serious People'. In fact, collected here alongside Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Salome (1891,...

Parution : 2024-12-18
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays


Oscar Wilde


'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.' The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) proclaims that it is 'A Trivial Play for Serious People'. In fact, collected here alongside Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Salome (1891,...

Parution : 2024-12-17
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Exiles
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Exiles


James Joyce


'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha,...

Parution : 2020-12-10
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Exiles


James Joyce


'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha,...

Parution : 2020-12-10
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Turning the Boat for Home
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Turning the Boat for Home


Richard Mabey


'One of our greatest nature writers' GuardianFor over fifty years, Richard Mabey has been a pioneering voice in modern nature writing. This book collects pieces across his rich career, tracing his continually evolving ideas as much as the profound changes in our...

Parution : 2019-10-03
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Sybil
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Sybil


Benjamin Disraeli


Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply to the...

Parution : 2017-04-06
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Great Irish Reportage
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Great Irish Reportage


John Horgan


Reports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the first-ever anthology of Irish reportage.Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling tradition of reportage: journalism, dispatches and eyewitness accounts....

Parution : 2013-09-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Selected Letters
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Selected Letters


Charlotte Brontë


'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct...

Parution : 2010-09-09
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Selected Letters
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Selected Letters


Charlotte Brontë


'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct...

Parution : 2010-09-09
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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6,02
Télécharger le livre :  Cousin Phillis and Other Stories
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Cousin Phillis and Other Stories


Elizabeth Gaskell


'I see her now - cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.' Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally...

Parution : 2010-03-11
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Voyage Out
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The Voyage Out


Virginia Woolf


The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was...

Parution : 2009-03-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Selected Writings
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Selected Writings


John Ruskin


'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both...

Parution : 2009-03-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Culture and Anarchy
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Culture and Anarchy


Matthew Arnold


'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as...

Parution : 2006-11-09
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Culture and Anarchy
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Culture and Anarchy


Matthew Arnold


'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as...

Parution : 2006-11-09
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works
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Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works


Aphra Behn


When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his...

Parution : 2003-08-28
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The Islandman
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The Islandman


Robin Flower , Tomás O'crohan


Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and...

Parution : 1977-03-09
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Islandman
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The Islandman


Robin Flower , Tomás O'crohan


Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and...

Parution : 1977-03-09
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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