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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 Fortune of the Rougons by Brian Nelson; Émile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about, and the origins of the hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder, treachery, and greed are the keynotes, and just as the Empire was est ...Show more
The Gallic War by Julius Caesar
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Category: Ancient History | Series: World's Classics Ser.
The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one level a straightforward narrative of the campaigns Caesar fought against the Gauls, Germans and Britons, ...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
The Peloponnesian War OWC by Thucydides; Martin Hammond (trans)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The edition also includes fourteen maps, a chronology, a glossary, a selected bibliography, and an index.
The Qur'an by HALEEM TRANS
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!' There is no other novel quite like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. George Orwell called it 'a wonder ...Show more
The Russian Master and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
These stories are translated with an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.