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The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to Eng ...Show more
The Lives of the Poets : A Selection by Samuel Johnson (ed Roger Lonsdale)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as w ...Show more
The Major Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and prose - the lyric poems, plays, longer poems, criticism, and essays - to give the essence of his work and th ...Show more
Alfred Tennyson - The Major Works including The princess, In Memoriam, and Maud by Alfred Tennyson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Tennyson's poetry and prose - juvenilia as well as his best-known poems, and letters and journal entries - to give the ess ...Show more
The Major Works by Donald (EDT) Samuel; Greene Johnson
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies. This volume celebrates Johnson's astonishin ...Show more
The Major Works: Including Poems, Plays, and Critical Prose by W. B. Yeats
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give the essence of h ...Show more
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended' The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befri ...Show more
The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I shall never forget the day I wrote "The Mark on the Wall" - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. "The Unwritten Novel" was the great discovery, however. That - again in one second - showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted i ...Show more
The Masterpiece by Emile Zola
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salo ...Show more
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays by Molière; Maya Slater (Translator)
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This unique volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Moliere (1622-73) was one of the finest and most influential French dramatists, adept at portraying human foibles and puncturing pomposity ...Show more
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death du ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant te ...Show more