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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
Gaia: New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science
In this classic work that continues to inspire many readers, Jim Lovelock puts forward his idea that the Earth functions as a single organism. Written for non-scientists, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence in support of a radically different model of our planet. In contrast t ...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
Heidi (Oxford Children's Classics) by Johanna Spyri
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Children's Classics
If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the mountains, the two grow to love each other dearly. He ...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
MOBY DICK by MELVILLE HERMAN & MCCAUGHREAN GERALDINE
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Classic Tales | Reading Level: 9+
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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Category: Mind, Body, Spirit | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook of philosophical reflections, written by a Roman emperor probably on military campaign in Germany. In short, ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to ana ...Show more
Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (3rd edition; 2008) by Chris Baldick
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Category: Dictionaries | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
The best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. It is now available i ...Show more
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang by John Ayto
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Category: Dictionaries | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries. The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Sla ...Show more
Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations by Antony Jay
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Category: History | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
The power of words in politics is well known and the fourth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations brings together both words of wisdom and things that might have been better left unsaid. This unique reference book not only charts the most influential political events of recent times v ...Show more