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Kim by KIPLING, RUDYARD
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. ABOUT THE SERIES: For ov ...Show more
Life of Johnson by Pat (INT) R. W. (EDT); Rogers James; Chapman Boswell
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Category: Biography | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories. Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after daughters in the absence of her husband, who is serving as an army chaplain in ...Show more
Lives Of The Caesars by Suetonius
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much concern for their reliabili ...Show more
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
Lyrical Ballads : 1798 and 1802 by Fiona (EDT) Samuel Taylor; Stafford William; Coleridge Wordsworth
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Mary and the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have lately written...a tale, to illustrate an opinion of mine, that a genius will educate itself.' Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. Expressed most forcefully in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook of philosophical reflections, written by a Roman emperor probably on military campaign in Germany. In short, ...Show more
Miss Julie and Other Plays by STRINDBURG AUGUST
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death 'Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, 'while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators o ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent' So the title page of this extraordinary novel describes the career of the woman known as Moll Flanders, whose ...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
Nana by Douglas Parmée (Edited and Translated by); Émile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-si cle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laun ...Show more