-Titulo Original : The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including `The Red-Headed League, `The Blue Carbuncle, and `The Speckled Band. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the very first story, `A Scandal in Bohemia. The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With John Michael Gibson, he compiled the Soho Series Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish writer who studied medicine before becoming the writer of the famous Sherlock Holmes series...

-Titulo Original : The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on Americas pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious, and in a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial, Tom engages readers of all ages. He has long been a defining figure in the American cultural imagination. Alongside the charm and the excitement, the novel also raises questions about identity, and about attitudes to class and race. Above all, Twains study of childhood brings into focus emergent notions of individual and literary maturity. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Peter Stoneley is a Professor in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading...

-Titulo Original : The Secret Garden (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, and a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried. These are the ingredients of one of the most famous and well-loved of childrens classics, an inspiring story of regeneration and salvation that gently subverted the conventions of a century of romantic and gothic fiction for girls. Marking the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Secret Garden, this new edition of Frances Hodgson Burnetts classic tale of redemption and renewal features a fascinating introduction by Peter Hunt that explores the relationship between the book and the 19th-century genres of girls stories, romances, the gothic, and the sensational, and examines the books symbolic undercurrents. The book includes new explanatory notes that point out literary parallels and manuscript changes as well as glossing historical allusions and meanings, an up-to-date bibliography, a new chronology, and Burnetts essay My Robin, a companion piece to the book. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Peter Hunt is Professor Emeritus of Childrens Literature at Cardiff University...

-Titulo Original : The War Of The Worlds (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: One of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towards the capital, wreaking chaos, death, and destruction. The novel is closely associated with anxiety about a possible invasion of Great Britain at the turn of the century, and concerns about imperial expansion and its impact, and it drew on the latest astronomical knowledge to imagine a desert planet, Mars, turning to Earth for its future. The Martians are also evolutionarily superior to mankind. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Darryl Jones has taught at Trinity College Dublin since 1994. Prior to this he taught in the University of Lodz, Poland. He has held Visiting Professorships at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Transylvania, and Tongji University, Shanghai. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (Arnold/OUP 2002), It Came From the 1950s!: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (with Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy, Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and for Oxford Worlds Classics, M. R. James, Collected Ghost Stories (OUP, 2011, 2013) and Arthur Conan Doyles Gothic Tales (2016)...

-Titulo Original : The Jungle (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: A searing novel of social realism, Upton Sinclairs The Jungle follows the fortunes of Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turn-of-the-century Chicago a ruthless system that degrades and impoverishes him, and an industry whose filthy practices contaminate the meat it processes. From the stench of the killing-beds to the horrors of the fertilizer-works, the appalling conditions in which Jurgis works are described in intense detail by an author bent on social reform. So powerful was the books message that it caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt and led to changes to the food hygiene laws. In his Introduction to this new edition, Russ Castronovo highlights the aesthetic concerns that were central to Sinclairs aspirations, examining the relationship between history and historical fiction, and between the documentary impulse and literary narrative. As he examines the books disputed status as novel (it is propaganda or literature?), he reveals why Sinclairs message-driven fiction has relevance to literary and historical matters today, now more than a hundred years after the novel first appeared in print. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

-Titulo Original : Black Beauty (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Now a classic of childrens literature, though not originally published for children, this new edition of Anna Sewells famed Autobiography of a Horse is the only available critical edition, with illuminating features not found elsewhere. One of the bestselling novels in English, Black Beauty was originally written to expose and prevent cruelty to horses. Told by Black Beauty himself, this moving story recounts his idyllic colt-hood and his experiences at the hands of a variety of owners, good and bad. Describing his life as a horse in Victorian England, he tells of the unthinking brutality to which horses were often subjected. A sympathetic hero who faces danger and excitement, Black Beauty taught powerful lessons that influenced animal welfare in England and America. Indeed, the novel was known in America as the Uncle Toms Cabin of the Horse. This edition is edited by Sewells biographer, Adrienne E. Gavin, whose wide-ranging introduction draws on the latest scholarship to examine the multiple ways in which the story has been read: as childrens classic, protest novel, horse-care manual, feminist text, slave narrative, autobiography, and more. Also included are illustrations and material from the first American edition, such as an appendix on Killing Animals Humanely. In addition, there is a glossary of equine terms and an appendix of variants between the first British and American editions. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Adrienne E. Gavin is a Professor of English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University. She is the author of Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell. She has published widely on childrens literature, and is editor of the forthcoming The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary...

-Titulo Original : Better Never To Have Been The Harm Of Coming Into Existence-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence---rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should---they presume that they do them no harm. Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm. Although the good things in ones life make ones life go better than it otherwise would have gone, one could not have been deprived by their absence if one had not existed. Those who never exist cannot be deprived. However, by coming into existence one does suffer quite serious harms that could not have befallen one had one not come into existence. Drawing on the relevant psychological literature, the author shows that there are a number of well-documented features of human psychology that explain why people systematically overestimate the quality of their lives and why they are thus resistant to the suggestion that they were seriously harmed by being brought into existence. The author then argues for the anti-natal view---that it is always wrong to have children---and he shows that combining the anti-natal view with common pro-choice views about foetal moral status yield a pro-death view about abortion (at the earlier stages of gestation). Anti-natalism also implies that it would be better if humanity became extinct. Although counter-intuitive for many, that implication is defended, not least by showing that it solves many conundrums of moral theory about population. About the Author David Benatar is currently Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He received his Ph.D. from that university, did post-doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1993 to 1995, and was Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, from 1995 until 1997. His teaching and research interests are in moral philosophy and related areas. In 1999 he was awarded the University of Cape Towns Distinguished Teacher Award...

-Titulo Original : Oxford Handbook Of Emergency Medicine (oxford Medical Handbooks)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Now in its fifth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine is the essential rapid-reference guide to emergency medicine for everyone from junior doctors to specialist registrars, nurse practitioners, and paramedics. New and improved, the Handbook has been thoroughly revised throughout, with 100 extra illustrations and the latest guidelines and treatment advice, completely overhauled chapters on Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Paediatric emergencies, and new topics on treatment escalation, end-of-life care, and sepsis. Clear and concise, extensively updated, and packed with a host of new X-rays to aid identification and treatment, this Handbook has everything you need to thrive in the demanding world of emergency medicine today. Review The text is straight to the point, concise, informative and educational which also helps to improve patient care. Yet it is surprisingly comprehensive for this size of book and a lot of common and less common situations are covered in significant depth. This is achieved in part, because every word counts and the text is straight to the point. Exactly what many people want. -- Dr Harry Brown, Glycosmedia About the Author Jonathan P. Wyatt, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Exeter, UK,Robert G. Taylor, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK,Kerstin de Wit, Assistant Professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada,Emily J. Hotton, Clinical Research Fellow, Southmead Hospital and University of Bristol, UK Jonathan P. Wyatt is Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, UK Robert G. Taylor is Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK Kerstin de Wit is Assistant Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Emily J. Hotton is Clinical Research Fellow at Southmead Hospital and University of Bristol, U...

-Titulo Original : Making Good Progress? The Future Of Assessment For Learning-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Making Good Progress? is a research-informed examination of formative assessment practices that analyses the impact Assessment for Learning has had in our classrooms. Making Good Progress? outlines practical recommendations and support that Primary and Secondary teachers can follow in order to achieve the most effective classroom-based approach to ongoing assessment. Written by Daisy Christodoulou, Head of Assessment at Ark Academy, Making Good Progress? offers clear, up-to-date advice to help develop and extend best practice for any teacher assessing pupils in the wake of life beyond levels. Review Christodoulou is one of the most remarkable writers in education the UK has seen in decades, because she takes a subject as potentially opaque and esoteric as assessment, and unpacks it in an intelligible, vital way that neither patronises the novice or offends the expert. Her first book, Seven Myths, is one of the few texts that every new teacher should read. Her second book is, rather amazingly, another. It should be read deeply, broadly, everywhere that children are taught and assessments are used. Tom Bennett, chair of the DfE Behaviour Management Group and founder of researchED Daisy is one of the leading thinkers on assessment in the UK and this book is essential reading for everyone who works in education. It shows that flaws in assessment are the cause of so many issues in our education system and gives us a clear path to fixing those flaws. Sam Freedman, Executive Director of Programmes at Teach First and trustee of the Teacher Development Trust Schools are going to have to re-think their methods of assessing, recording and reporting, from scratch, and this book is an excellent place to start. Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London This book addresses some of the most pressing areas in the field: namely why assessment for learning has too often become assessment of learning and why marking and feedback are not the same thing. It sets out a new vision of assessment in a clear, fluid style that will be just as useful to the newly qualified teacher as the seasoned academic Carl Hendrick, Head of Learning and Research at Wellington College About the Author Daisy Christodoulou Daisy Christodoulou is the Head of Assessment at Ark Schools. Previously, she was Research and Development Manager at Ark. She has been part of government commissions on the future of teacher training and assessment. Her book, Seven Myths about Education, was published in March 2014...

-Titulo Original : The Life Of Charlotte Bronte (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Elizabeth Gaskells The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Brontes and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honor her friend. This edition collates all three previous editions, as well as the manuscript, offering fuller information about the process of writing and a more detailed explanation of the text than any previous edition. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Angus Easson is Research Professor of English at the University of Salford...

-Titulo Original : Just So Stories For Little Children (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: How did the camel get his hump? Why wont cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kiplings imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables of India, and they are full of jokes, subtexts, and exotic references. This fully illustrated edition of this classic includes two extra stories and Kiplings own explanation of the title. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Review `A handy, properly pocket-sized paperback, with Kiplings original illustrations and commentaries on them, with annotations that reveal unsuspected depths and correspondances to these familiar creation fables. Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian About the Author Lisa Lewis is a former chairman of the Kipling Society...

-Titulo Original : The Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary Teachers Book, 2nd Edition-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: This title offers 1,200 everyday core vocabulary words under 12 topics, reflecting the immediate language needs of beginners. Each page presents a manageable amount of new vocabulary (12-16 words) and there are exercises on every topic. The type is large and easy-to-read, with nouns, verbs, verb phrases and adjectives included so that students can begin to use the language immediately. About the Author Margot F Gramer has been an ESL professional for over 20 years, with wide ranging experience as a writer, teacher, teacher trainer, and editor...

-Titulo Original : A Handbook Of Diction For Singers Italian, German, French-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Now in its second edition, A Handbook of Diction for Singers is a complete guide to achieving professional levels of diction in Italian, German, and French, the three major languages of the classical vocal repertory. Written for English-speaking singers and offering thorough, consistent explanations, it is an ideal tool for students and an invaluable reference for voice teachers, vocal coaches, and conductors. The book combines traditional approaches proven successful in the teaching of diction with important new material not readily available elsewhere, presenting the sounds of each language in logical order, along with essential information on matters such as diacritical marks, syllabification, word stress, and effective use of the variety of foreign-language dictionaries. Presented in an attractively concise format, the book goes into greater detail than comparable texts, providing specific information to clarify concepts typically difficult for English-speaking singers. Particular emphasis is placed on the characteristics of vowel length, the sequencing of sounds between words, as well as the differences between spoken and sung sounds in all three languages. Featuring significantly expanded coverage of each of the three languages and illustrated with numerous examples, this second edition of A Handbook of Diction for Singers is an exceptional text for courses in diction and a valuable reference source for all vocalists. Review Wow! No need to bother with other reference works for these three languages---its all here and then some! Im so impressed with Mr. Adams thoroughness, clarity, and his ability to keep what could be a dry subject interesting, entertaining and stimulating. Any singer, voice teacher or collaborative pianist needs this on a very handy shelf. --Martin Katz, Pianist, Coach, and Conductor A Handbook of Diction for Singers will make an invaluable addition to any singers library. The clarity and simplicity of Mr. Adams approach to lyric diction is wonderful to read, and his years of teaching and the depth of his understanding only underscore his clear and clean explanation of the many aspects of this discipline. Bravo, David! --Warren Jones, Pianist David Adams contribution to the singers bookshelf is invaluable. He not only provides a clear, pragmatic guide to diction for singers and pianists but approaches the topic with a fine ear for music and a deep understanding of the challenges singers face in uniting music and text. --Brian Zeger, collaborative pianist and Director of Vocal Arts, Juilliard School About the Author David H. Adams has sung as lyric tenor in opera and concert in Italy, Austria, Germany, and the US. He has been on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music since 1980, and is currently Head of the Performance Studies Division of the Conservatory. He is artistic director of the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca (Italy), and has served on the faculty of the Aspen Music School...

-Titulo Original : The Charterhouse Of Parma (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo. The novels great achievement is to conjure up the excitement and romance of youth while never losing sight of the harsh realities which beset the pursuit of happiness. This new translation captures Stendhals narrative verse, while the Introduction explores the novels reception and the reasons for its enduring popularity and power. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Margaret Mauldon holds a doctorate in French from the University of Massachusetts. She has taught French at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts. She has been working as a freelance translator since 1987, and her translation of Zolas LAssommoir is published in Worlds Classics. Roger Pearson is Professor of French in the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Praelector in French, The Queens College, Oxford...

-Titulo Original : Louise De La Valliere (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Louise de la Valliere is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Set during the reign of Louis XIV and filled with behind-the-scenes intrigue, the novel brings the aging Musketeers and dArtagnan out of retirement to face an impending crisis within the royal court of France. This new edition of the classic English translation is richly annotated and places Dumass invigorating tale in its historical and cultural context. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Review `one of the very best of the series, mixing amorous and political intrigue with an elan peculiar to Dumas ... this quasi-historical series remains remarkably readable The Irish Times (Dublin) About the Author David Coward is Professor of French at the University of Leeds. He has edited all OUPs Dumas titles and is the translator of Maupassant: Mademoiselle Fifi and A Day in the Country...

-Titulo Original : The Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary (workbook)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Workbook to accompanyThe Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary . Published On: 1996-05-31 From the Back Cover The Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary Workbook provides reading and writing activities for low-beginning level adult and young adult ESL and EFL students. Each illustrated Workbook page corresponds to a specific Dictionary page and offers multiple opportunities for students to practice the vocabulary for each Dictionary topic. Activities include alphabetizing, categorizing, labeling, matching, and puzzle solving. Each Workbook page ends with an exercise that engages students on a more personal level. Workbook pages may be assigned as an individual, pair, or small-group work in class or as homework. An answer key in the back of the book allows students to check their own work. About the Author Norma Shapiro has been involved with language teaching since 1982. She has conducted many workshops on vocabulary development, communicative activities, and using visuals in the classroom. Jayme Adelson-Goldstein is an ESL teacher-trainer,consultant, and author living in Northridge, California...

-Titulo Original : Mary And The Wrongs Of Woman (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. They are expressed here in two novels in which heroines have to rely on their own resources to establish their independence and intellectual development. Strongly autobiographical, both novels powerfully complement Wollstonecrafts non-fictional writing, inspired by the French Revolution and the social upheavals that followed. New to this edition is a completely rewritten introduction that incorporates the latest scholarship and features a consideration of the social formation of Wollstonecraft as a Revolutionary feminist and her literary-political career, as well as a critical account of the two novels. A new bibliography includes all the latest critical writing on Wollstonecraft, while heavily revised notes link her fiction to her extensive reading, her other writings and major events and issues of the day. In addition, the text has been completely reset, making it easier on the eyes. It is by far the highest quality edition available, and a great choice for readers interested in pre-Victorian literature and feminist history. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Mary Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and early feminist. Editor Gary Kelly is Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta...

-Titulo Original : The Aspern Papers And Other Stories (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Theres no baseness I wouldnt commit for Jeffrey Asperns sake. The Aspern Papers is one of Jamess best-known and most accomplished novellas, whose plot foreshadows the modern cult of the writer as celebrity, and the hunger to uncover previously unseen writings. Indeed, in all four stories collected here--including The Death of the Lion, The Figure in the Carpet and The Birthplace--the figure of the artist is central. Extraordinarily prophetic, James explores the emergent new cult of the writer as celebrity, and asks: can the person behind the art ever truly be known, and can our knowledge of the artists life ever explain the act of creativity. The collection features an Introduction by distinguished James scholar Adrian Poole, who explores the central themes of all four stories and their literary contexts. In addition, Poole includes relevant extracts from Jamess Prefaces and Notebooks in which the origins and development of the stories are described as well as an appendix on stage and screen versions of The Aspern Papers. Reproducing the definitive New York Edition text, the volume includes a new Select Bibliography, new and revised notes, and an appendix of variant readings. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, and Washington Square for Oxford Worlds Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse with Jeremy Maule (1995; reissued 2000), and the author of Tragedy: a Very Short Introduction (2005)...

-Titulo Original : Hide And Seek (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: At the center of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known only as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe--rebelling against his repressive father--takes up with bad company and meets a mysterious stranger that the secret of Madonna can be unravelled. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Catherine Peters is a former Lecturer in English at Somerville College, Oxford, now retired, and an expert in 19th-century fiction...

-Titulo Original : Arabian Nights Entertainments-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: The stories contained in this store house of ingenious fiction initiate a pattern of literary reference and influence which today remains as powerful and intense as it was throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin: all make their appearance here. This edition reproduces in its entirety the earliest English translation of the French orientalist Antoine Gallands Mille et une Nuits ( 1001 Nights), which remained for over a century the only English translation of the story cycle, influencing an incalculable number of writers. In addition, it offers the complete text or the tales supplemented by extensive explanatory notes and plot summaries, which are particularly vital as these expansive stories are complex and interwoven. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Robert Mack is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He is also the editor of Oriental Tales in Worlds Classics...

-Titulo Original : The Mayor Of Casterbridge (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Set against the backdrop of peaceful south-west England, where Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth, The Mayor of Casterbridge captures the authors unique genius for depicting the absurdity underlying much of the sorrow and humor in our lives. Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love. This edition is the only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardys extensive revisions. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Pamela Dalziel is the General Editor of the Clarendon Dickens Edition. She has published numerous articles on Hardy and edited Hardys An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress and Other Stories (OWC, 1994) and A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin, 1998)...

-Titulo Original : The Beautiful And Damned (oxford Worlds Classics)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Fitzgeralds ironic epigraph to The Beautiful and the Damned exemplifies his attitude toward the young rootless post-World War I generation. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes--an abiding distrust, and animosity toward the leisure class--not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smoldering hatred of a peasant. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. About the Author Alan Margolies is Professor of English at John Jay College, CUNY...

-Titulo Original : Oxford Spanish Dictionary-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: This internationally acclaimed dictionary is widely used as a key reference tool by language professionals. With over 300,000 words and phrases, and half a million translations, and packed full of grammatical and usage information for both languages, it is the most authoritative Spanish bilingual dictionary available. Developed through consultation with academic advisors, its editors have used the latest technology to search millions of words of web-based text identifying the most recent additions to Spanish and English, and changes in usage. Thousands of new words and updated translations have been added in Spanish and English, covering subjects from politics and industry to technology and ecology. A clear colour layout and a new entry menu help you to navigate longer entries and make the text accessible and easy to use. Additional material ideal for students on their year abroad, or those working in Spanish or English, has been expanded and updated, including language of bank accounts, letters and CVs, to texting and telephoning, and much more. New and updated cultural notes teach you more about life in Spanish- and English-speaking countries. Discover more on oxforddictionaries , Oxfords hub for dictionaries and language reference. The site is regularly updated with the latest new words and meanings from Oxfords modern languages research programme, the Oxford Languages Tracker. You can also hear audio pronunciations and improve your language skills with online cultural notes, guides to writing, and much more. Discover more on oxforddictionaries , Oxfords hub for dictionaries and language reference. Review `Review from previous edition the dictionary is a fantastic piece of work, full of good examples, very instructive, and carefully done Dr Ignacio M. Palacios Martinez, Universidad de Santiago `Given the global reputation of Oxford lexicography, the first edition of their Spanish dictionary signalled the birth of another future giant; but the speed of its growth is vertiginous...The already rich coverage in the previous edition has been enhanced with 20,000 new entries, which cover the latest vocabulary across hundreds of topics...Definitions are presented in the most lucid manner. TL...

-Titulo Original : Focus On Reading (oxford Key Concepts For The Language Classroom)-Fabricante : Oxford University Press-Descripcion Original: Aims to help teachers develop a deep understanding of the multiple skills and factors involved in second language reading development for second or foreign language learners aged 5-18. Equips teachers with practical skills for the effective teaching and assessment of second language reading to students with different learning needs. Features key research studies on reading comprehension, considers examples from real classroom practice, and provides activities to help teachers relate the content and objectives to their own teaching context. About the Author Esther Geva and Gloria Ramirez are well-respected in their field...