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Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by F. Petrarch
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch's best-known work in Italian. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics ha ...Show more
Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe by Juliette (EDT) George; Atkinson Eliot
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Complete and unabridged paperback edition.Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrial ...Show more
Sylvia's Lovers by Francis (EDT) Elizabeth Cleghorn; O'Gorman Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Writings by Christine Alexander
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters ba ...Show more
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.' Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short fiction. Often overshadowed by his maj ...Show more
Teenage Writings by Jane Austen
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminat ...Show more
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Ann Lawson (TRN) Carlo; Lucas Collodi
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Annals : The reigns of Tiberius, Clauduis and Nero by Cornelius Tacitus
$27.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden...In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius and the 'artist' Nero. The Annals is a gripping accoun ...Show more
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.' The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his mistress and muse, a recluse in an old palazzo in Venice, tended by her ingenuous niece. A predatory critic is d ...Show more
The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand pro ...Show more
The Bhagavad Gita by .
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have heard the supreme mystery, yoga, from Krishna, from the lord of yoga himself.' Thus ends the Bhagavad Gita, the most famous episode from the great Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. In its eighteen short chapters Krishna's teaching leads the warrior Arjuna from perplexity to understanding and corre ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. ...Show more