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Constellation Myths with Aratus' Phenomena by Eratosthenes
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Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In the third century BC Eratosthenes compiled a handbook of ...Show more
Corinne: or Italy by Madame De Stael
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.' Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in Italy, Oswald immediately falls under Corinne's magical spe ...Show more
Cousin Bette by David (INT) Sylvia (TRN); Bellos Honore de; Raphael Balzac
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France stru ...Show more
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a Londo ...Show more
Dialogues and Essays by Seneca .
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-part TV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturing the full range of his phil ...Show more
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by J. C. A. (EDT) David; Gaskin Hume
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Christopher (INT) Robin (TRN); Gill Epictetus; Hard
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
IDiscourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a ...Show more
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus,: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part ...Show more
Doctor Pascal by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart series. Pascal Rougon has spent his life chronicling the hereditary patterns and illnesses of his family, using medicine to attempt cures, whilst his niece Clotilde places her faith in God. 'There's something of everything th ...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