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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by WOOLF VIRGINIA
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...' Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, 'A Room of One's Own' inter ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'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
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and of ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Rosamund (TRN) Leo; Bartlett Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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As You Like it: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines S ...Show more
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb sat ...Show more
Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh by Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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, who comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar by killing f ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Oxford World Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conven ...Show more
Earth by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit murder for her.' Zola's novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the Rougon-Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest achievements, comparable to Germinal and L'Assommoir. Set in a village in the Beauce, in northern Franc ...Show more
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus a ...Show more
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad
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Category: General | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
HEART OF DARKNESS*AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS*KARAIN*YOUTH The finest of all Conrad's tales, 'Heart of Darkness' is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr Kurtz. What he sees on his ...Show more
Kim by KIPLING, RUDYARD
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. ABOUT THE SERIES: For ov ...Show more