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A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BO by DICKENS CHARLES
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks 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 grippe ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Oxford World Classics) by Charles Dickens; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'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 Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by WOOLF VIRGINIA
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Category: New Adult Fiction | 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
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand. At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral ...Show more
Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra by Sophocles
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, So ...Show more
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Don't use | 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
Bhagavad Gita by Anon
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Category: Don't use | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Bhagavad Gita is the most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world and a key work for understanding Indian religions and the way Hinduism has been represented in modern India and the West. The poem considers social and religious duty, the nature of sacrifice, and the relationship of hum ...Show more
CRIMES OF LOVE by Sade Marquis De
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Category: Don't use | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depra ...Show more
Collected Ghost Stories (Oxford World Classics) by M. R. James
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
"I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mold, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own..." Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supe ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Oxford World Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conven ...Show more
Foxes Book of Martyrs-Select Narratives by John Foxe & John N. King (ed.)
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Category: New Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial ...Show more
Gorgias by Plato
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Category: New Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of rhetoric, the dialogue soon becomes an investigation into ...Show more