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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now r ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw ...Show more
Second Hand Washington Square by Henry James; Mark Le Fanu (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Washington Squarefollows the coming-of-age of its plain-faced, kindhearted heroine, Catherine Sloper. Much to her father's vexation, a handsome opportunist named Morris Townsend woos the long-suffering heiress, intent on claiming her fortune. When Catherine stubbornly refuses to call off her engagement, ...Show more
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's ta ...Show more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending is one ...Show more
The Analects by Raymond Stanley (TRN) Confucius; Dawson
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Category: New Age | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A modern-spelling text of Shakespeare's sonnets and poems, collated from existing printings with commentaries and notes to explain language and allusions. The introductions consider the biographical and literary background, how the poems relate to the plays, and dating and textual matters.
The Confessions by St Augustine
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
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Category: Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The first new edition aimed at a broad readership since 1968 In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by `natural selection'. Development ...Show more