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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you ca'n't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, ...Show more
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy; Patricia Ingham (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
First published in 1871, Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies, is a tale of murder. More than that, it is a tale of blackmail, bigamy and lies. And yet, under the delicate touch of a true poet, it becomes still more than that again. Desperate Remedies is, in the author's own words, a story of 'mystery, ent ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to fe ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'His figure was striking, but not so from grace ...and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air; something almost super-human.' First published in 1797, The Italian is one of the finest examples of Gothic romance. The fast-paced, narrative c ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monast ...Show more
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope; Nicholas Daly (Editor)
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Category: Children's Novel | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?" said my brother's wife."My dear Rose," I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, "why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficie ...Show more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The profoundest book there is, born from the innermost richness of truth, an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming up with gold and goodness.' Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) was Nietzsche's own favourite among all his books and has proved to be his most popular, having sold mil ...Show more
Trojan Women and Other Plays by Byron Gallery Staff; Eurípides; Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific ...Show more
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made av ...Show more
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