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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
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular story. Sally Shuttleworth's introduction finds, beneath the idyllic evocation of rural bliss and a tale of love and high adventure, a startling sub-text which rigidly defends Victorian values, and portrays a 'manly' hero constantly having to ...Show more
Mabinogion by Sioned Davies (Trans)
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
'I cannot be killed indoors,' he said, 'nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.''Well,' she said, 'how can you be killed?' Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous author ...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
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
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
A story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarefied sensibilities of the upper-class England of Austen's day, the novel is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging story.
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 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
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 Stories by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: No Category | Series: World's Classics Ser.
Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily influenced by Anton Chekhov, a master of the form. This new selection, with an introduction by the novelist ...Show more