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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Oxford World Classics) by Charles Dickens; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped ...Show more
A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classics | 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
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!' Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. Defoe's ...Show more
A Memoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections by James Edward Austen-Leigh
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Category: Biography | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.' James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Ann ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achie ...Show more
Against Nature: A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-ce ...Show more
Agricola and Germany by Anthony B. (TRN) Cornelius; Birley Tacitus
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume; Peter Millican (ed.)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
about Hume: David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the greatest of philosophers. Today he probably ranks highest of all British philosophers in terms of influence and philosophical standing. His philosophical work ranges across morals, the mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics; he had broad interest ...Show more
Anglo Saxon World : An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | 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