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The Bodhicaryavatara by Santideva
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Written in India in the early eighth century AD, Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara became one of the most popular accounts of the Buddhist's spiritual path. The Bodhicaryavatara takes as its subject the profound desire to become a Buddha and save all beings from suffering. The person who enacts such a desire ...Show more
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by III (EDT) Robert C. Earle (EDT); Leitz Jack; Labor London
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pionee ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Perrault
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!' Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Pe ...Show more
The Complete Odes and Epodes by David (TRN) Horace; West
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Complete Short Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Wilde did not converse - he told tales.' Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admirers, George Orwell and W. B. Yeats among them. The stories give free rein to Wilde's origi ...Show more
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels; David McLellan (Editor)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make Engels's ...Show more
The Confessions by St Augustine
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high ...Show more
The Dead Secret by Ira Bruce (EDT) Wilkie; Nadel Collins
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to tell each other stories. Boccaccio' ...Show more
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.' In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated what he consid ...Show more
The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!' The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the march of the Ten Thousand. The exploits of this famous army of Greek mercenaries in mode ...Show more