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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor); Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped ...Show more
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement fr ...Show more
A Love Story by Émile Zola; Helen Constantine (Translator); Brian Nelson (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it were the only air they could breathe.'Hélène Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by WOOLF VIRGINIA
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...' Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, 'A Room of One's Own' inter ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literatu ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and of ...Show more
Aristophanes - Frogs and Other Plays - A New Translation by Aristophanes; Stephen Halliwell (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combinationof fantasy a ...Show more
Bacchae and Other Plays - Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus by Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Edited and Translated by); Euripides
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with th ...Show more
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!'Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more im ...Show more
Cecilia by Frances Burney; Peter Sabor (Editor); Margaret Anne Doody (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity and social analysis. About the Series: ...Show more