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A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Music & Cinema | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Michael R. Katz)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small ...Show more
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin; James E. Falen (Translator)
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Category: Poetry & Drama | 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
Paradise Lost by John Milton; Jonathan Goldberg (Editor); Stephen Orgel (Editor)
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Category: Poetry & Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam ...Show more
Physics by David (INT) Robin (TRN); Bobstock Aristotle; Waterfield
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Flowers of Evil with parallel french text by Charles Baudelaire
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Childrens Picture Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It was the garden that did it - and Mary and Dickon and the creatures - and the Magic.' An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried - and a boy who talks to animals. These are the ingredients ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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Category: Childrens Picture Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.' So says Rat to Mole, as he introduces him to the delights of the river and his friends Toad, the spirit of rebellion, and Badger, the spirit of England. But it is a world whe ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy ...' When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins is haunted by his frightening tales; the sailor's sudden death is the beginning of one of the most exciting ad ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind ...' Discovered on the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff is rescued by Mr Earnshaw and taken to the remote Yorkshire farmhouse of Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine rapidly forms a passionate attachment to him, but when Catherine's brother t ...Show more
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