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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 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
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
Frankenstein or 'The Modern Prometheus' The 1818 Text (Oxford World Classics) by Mary Shelley; Nick Groom (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: World's Classics Ser.
JOHN BARLEYCORN by JACK LONDON JOHN SUTHERLAND
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Category: New Biography | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the b ...Show more
JOHN KEATS MAJOR WORKS by KEATS
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a generous selection of Keats's letters - to give the essen ...Show more
Kidnapped Oxford World's Classics by STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
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Category: New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+) | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"Nay," said Mr. Campbell, "who can tell that for a surety? But the name of that family, Davie, boy, is the name you bear--Balfours of Shaws: an ancient, honest, reputable house, peradventure in these latter days decayed. Your father, too, was a man of learning as befitted his position; no man more plaus ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
A story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarefied sensibilities of the upper-class England of Austen's day, the novel is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging story.
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: New Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more
The Origins of Science Fiction by Michael Newton (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers Ser.
'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury?', TheMachine Stops, ...Show more