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Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
"Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet." For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ru ...Show more
Snow White & Other Tales OWC by Wilhelm Grimm; Joyce Crick (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...'The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fai ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version by God
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Category: New Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. ...Show more
The Collected Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)
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Category: New Children's Picture Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales (Oxford World Classics) by Charles Perrault; Christopher Betts (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!'Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Per ...Show more
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (Oxford World Classics) by Arthur Machen
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Welsh writer produced a seminal body ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
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
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write 'a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed 'papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still among Dicken's most popular works. ABOUT THE SERIES: ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a deba ...Show more
The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare; John Fletcher (As told to); Eugene M. Waith (Editor)
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Category: New Poetry & Verse | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen was written at the end of Shakespeare's career, as a collaboration with the rising young dramatist John Fletcher. Neglected until recently by directors and teachers, the play deserves to be better known for its moving dramatization ofthe conflict o ...Show more