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The Flowers of Evil with parallel french text by Charles Baudelaire
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy ...Show more
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unres ...Show more
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials ...Show more
The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer; Robert Fraser (Editor)
$43.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906- ...Show more
The Golden Pot and Other Tales by Ritchie (TRN) E. T. A.; Robertson Hoffmann
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.' Wealthy American John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly intimate manner how he and his wife Florence meet an English couple in a German spa resort. They become friends over the years and gradually the history of their relationships and ...Show more
The Histories by Herodotus; Robin Waterfield (Translated by)
$25.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A new translation by Robin Waterfield. With an Introduction and Notes by Carolyn Dewald.Herodotus is not only known as the 'father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent ...Show more
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.' Edward Gibbon called The Histories an 'immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images'. Its author, Corne ...Show more
The Jewish War by Martin (INT) Martin (TRN); Goodman Josephus; Hammond
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Kill by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become ...Show more
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt in falling in love. I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.' Leo Tolstoy, known to the world for his famous novels, also created throughout his s ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more