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A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: No Category | 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
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand. At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral ...Show more
Bacchae and Other Plays - Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus by Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Edited and Translated by); Euripides
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with th ...Show more
Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by Robert (EDT) Herman; Milder Melville
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good ...Show more
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic su ...Show more
Doctor Pascal by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart series. Pascal Rougon has spent his life chronicling the hereditary patterns and illnesses of his family, using medicine to attempt cures, whilst his niece Clotilde places her faith in God. 'There's something of everything th ...Show more
First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known 'long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity of ...Show more
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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
Indiana by George Sand; Sylvia Raphael (Translator); Naomi Schor (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
George Sand: Indiana Erstdruck 1832 unter dem Titel >Indiana
Kim by KIPLING, RUDYARD
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Category: No Category | 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
Mary Barton and Other Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Shirley Foster (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England, adapted for the stage by the author of Iron and The James Plays. Manchester in the 1840s. By day, Mary Barton works in a dress shop making gowns for the daughters of the newly moneyed mill owners. By night, Mary aspires to join their class. As sh ...Show more