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Oxford Thesaurus of English

Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: Developed using evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, this fully revised text offers more up-to-date and complete coverage of synonyms and antonyms than any other A-Z thesaurus. Increased coverage now includes hundreds of new phrases and idioms, and newly selected examples of real English showing how words are used, and helping to guide you to the right meaning. New features include the Word…

Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world's greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship. The action takes place in the 1620s at the court of Louis XIII, where the musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with their companion, the headstrong…

Scott John: Oxford Dictionary of Sociology

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Wide-ranging and authoritative, this sociology dictionary is the most informative of its kind. Compiled by a team of experts, under the editorship of Gordon Marshall and John Scott, it contains over 2,500 entries. With terms taken from sociology and the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science, it provides widespread coverage of all aspects of…

Fyodor Dostoevsky: White Nights: A Gentle Creature, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from living life. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how withdrawal from…

Marlowe Christopher: Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian…

Riches John: The Bible: A Very Short Introduction

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: It is sometimes said that the Bible is one of the most unread books in the world, yet has been a major force in the development of Western culture and continues to exert an enormous influence over many people's lives. This Very Short Introduction looks at the importance accorded to the Bible by different communities and cultures and attempts to explain why it has generated such a rich variety of…

York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of the cycle was governed by subject matter of enduring spiritual significance, both to its contemporary audience and in later literary and artistic…

The Expedition of Cyrus

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive! The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the march of the Ten Thousand. The exploits of this famous army of Greek mercenaries in modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq were described by one of their leaders, the Athenian historian and…

Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: An excellent companion to the Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, the Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs consists of over 2,000 proverbs and sayings from around the English-speaking world. Phrases are organized by subject and draw on the very latest Oxford dictionaries research.

MacKenzie Henry: The Man of Feeling

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Man of Feeling (1771) is the foremost novel of sentiment in which the hero, Harley demonstrates his sensiblity in a series of episodes as he is tested against an uncaring world. This edition reprints Brian Vickerss authoritative text with a new introduction and notes discussing the work in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and European sentimentalism.

Kerr Fergus: Thomas Aquinas

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought. He was a controversial figure who was exposed and engaged in conflict. This Very Short Introduction looks at Aquinas in a historical context, and explores the Church and culture into which Aquinas…

Oxford Beginner's French Dictionary

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The Oxford Beginner's French Dictionary is a brand new guide to learning French. Designed specifically for English-speaking adult learners who are either learning from scratch or refreshing lost language skills, it offers an easy to use dictionary, extra help with vocabulary, and essential information on living and interacting in the French-speaking world. The dictionary is exceptionally easy to…

Guillaume De Lorris: The Romance of the Rose

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance... to be called, it is the Romance of the Rose, in which the whole art of love is contained. Guillaume de Lorris's own introduction to his allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair gives no indication of the eventual scale and scope of the work, which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the…

Nettle Daniel: Personality: What Makes You the Way You are

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? We have something deep and consistent within us that determines the choices we make and the situations we bring about. But why should members of the same species differ so markedly in their natures? What is the best personality to have; a bold one or a shy one, an aggressive…