Oxford University Press

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats`s poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give the essence of his work and thinking....

Frankenstein is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothicism and the prototype of the twentieth-century science-fiction novel. It was conceived in the Swiss Alps in mid-June 1816 after a conversation about bringing corpses to life provoked a nightmare, and was written over the next eleven months in largely morbid circumstances. Death and the...

Nietzsche`s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism, the questionable virtues of science and scholars, liberal democracy, nationalism, and women`s emancipation....

This is the only selection of Plato`s myths currently available. It brings together ten of the most celebrated Platonic myths from Plato`s dialogues to make a perfect introduction to Plato`s philosophy for new readers....

Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world`s greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian past, it tells the story of the hero Beowulf....

Anglojęzyczny słownik Papieży....