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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
On War by Carl Von Clausewitz
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'War is merely the continuation of policy by other means' On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, sought to understand and analyse the phenomenon of war so that future leaders c ...Show more
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family life, economic activity, and the political structure of t ...Show more
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty, playful work Constantius explores the nature of love an ...Show more
Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most outstanding poets of late nineteenth- ...Show more
Selected Poems with Parallel Spanish Text by Lorca, Federico Garcia
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Federico García Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lorca's poetry is steeped in the land, climate, and folklore of his native Andalusia, thou ...Show more
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels; David McLellan (Editor)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make Engels's ...Show more
The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer; Robert Fraser (Editor)
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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 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 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 Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings by René Descartes; Michael Moriarty (Translator)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.' Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But he also acknowledged the intimate union between them, and in his later writings he concentrated on under ...Show more