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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
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: Plays | 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
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more im ...Show more
Classic Horror Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft develope ...Show more
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections by François de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ev ...Show more
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest historical dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written immediately before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. These new translations into ...Show more
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
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
Frankenstein or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a being from dead body parts, and animates thiscreature. The res ...Show more
Indiana by George Sand; Sylvia Raphael (Translator); Naomi Schor (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
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Lord Byron: Selected Poetry by BYRON LORD GEORGE GORDON
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Lord Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. His early fame came in 1812 after the publication of Childe Harold. Relishing humor and irony, daring and flamboyancy, sarcasm and idealism, his work encompasses a sweeping range of topics, subjects, and mod ...Show more
Myths From Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale o ...Show more