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A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's c ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point of v ...Show more
About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achie ...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
Against Nature: A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-ce ...Show more
Agricola and Germany by Anthony B. (TRN) Cornelius; Birley Tacitus
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, from Egypt to Uzbekistan, and died in Ba ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you ca'n't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, ...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
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume; Peter Millican (ed.)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Anglo Saxon World : An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics