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Chance - A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A remarkable book, the story of Flora De Barral, daughter of the Great De Barral, a monumental swindler, and her love for the sea captain who married her. Marlow tells the story in his usual quiet manner which is so dramatic under the quiet, and shows Chance the master hand directing and interfering at ...Show more
Classic Horror Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft develope ...Show more
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections by François de La Rochefoucauld
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ev ...Show more
Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope; Julian Thompson (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
FROM MODEST LONDON CLERK -- TO WEALTHY MANOR SQUIRE Here is one of Anthony Trollope's most critically successful novels, received well by his contemporaries, and yet experimental enough in execution to be almost "modern." Henry Jones is just a modest, callow fellow in a meek clerking job in London, ...Show more
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Heather Glen (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished examples of the genre. The heart of this collection is Gaskell's novella Cousin Phillis, a lyrical masterpiece that d ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (PB) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'This is a new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866) by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. Young.The impoverished student Raskolni ...Show more
Cymbeline - The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; Roger Warren (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This is the first new, full-scale edition of Cymbeline in 37 years. One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of marriage imperiled by mistrust and painfully rebuilt in the context of international conflict. Roger Warren's commentary empha ...Show more
Defence Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'But I must stop now. I can no longer speak for tears - and my client has ordered that tears are not to be used in his defence.'Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world: he dominated the Roman courts, usually appearing for the defence. His speeches are masterpieces of persuasion: ...Show more
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy; Patricia Ingham (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
First published in 1871, Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies, is a tale of murder. More than that, it is a tale of blackmail, bigamy and lies. And yet, under the delicate touch of a true poet, it becomes still more than that again. Desperate Remedies is, in the author's own words, a story of 'mystery, ent ...Show more
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest historical dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written immediately before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. These new translations into ...Show more
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE WITH THE WILD DUCK A by IBSEN HENRIK
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Written in the aftermath of hostile criticism of Ghosts, Ibsen's three plays all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled not by symbolic figures and abstract concepts, but by complex individuals pitted against, or part of, a society that Ibsen felt was morally abhorrent an ...Show more
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin; James E. Falen (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Excerpt from Eugene Oneguine: A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Eugene oneguine, the chief poetical work of Russia's greatest poet, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe except our own, I hope that this version may prove an acceptable contri bution to literature. Tastes ...Show more