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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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 Recognition of Sakuntala - A Play in Seven Acts by Kâlidâsa; W. J. Johnson (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly erotic in tone and in performance, The Recognition of Sakuntala aimed to produce an experience of aesthetic rapture ...Show more
The Russian Master and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
These stories are translated with an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
The Sin of Abbe Mouret by Emile Zola; Valerie Pearson Minogue (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path." Serge Mouret, is an obsessively devout priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. A serious illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse Al ...Show more
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable ...Show more
The Years by Virginia. Woolf; Sue Asbee (Other); Hermione Lee (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Extra Things added to the Book Added biography of the author Added details of character About of book included Quotes are added to each chapter Added index to get a quick view and interface Grammar correction is done A summary of the book is included The most mainstream of Virginia Woolf's books ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf; David Bradshaw (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMAN The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf construct ...Show more
Trilby by DU MAURIER, GEORGE
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
Trojan Women and Other Plays by Byron Gallery Staff; Eurípides; Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Translator)
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific ...Show more
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche; Duncan Large (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | Series: World's Classics Ser.
Nietzsche's "grand declaration of war," Twilight of the Idols was written while the philosopher was at the peak of his powers. Blazing with provocative, inflammatory rhetoric, this 1888 polemic examines what we worship and why. Intended by the author as a general introduction to his philosophy, it assai ...Show more
Ulysses - Second Edition by James Joyce; Jeri Johnson (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'- What is your nation if I may ask, says the citizen.- Ireland, says Bloom. I was born here. Ireland.' Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel t ...Show more
Victorian Fairy Tales by Michael Newton (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central ...Show more