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Candide and other stories by VOLTAIRE
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr P ...Show more
Four Major Plays by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.
Hamsun's Hunger by Knut Hamsun , Tore Rem, Terence Cave
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This new translation seeks to restore the startling freshness and epidermal unease of Hamsun's breakthrough story of 1890. It remains faithful to the style and voice of the text, the shifts of tense, the indirect free style, and the constant changes of register as the inner monologue moves between poeti ...Show more
Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Psychology | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud's original argument, unmodified by revisions he made following the book's critical reception which included, under the influence of his associat ...Show more
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope; Simon Dentith
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's ...Show more
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything' After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the political and social world has subtly changed, parties and policies no longer fixed and advancement dependent u ...Show more
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoi; Richard F. Gustafson (Introduction by); Louise Maude (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version by God
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Category: 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 Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything.' The Duke of Omnium is overwhelmed by the death of his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora. Once the British Prime Minister, he is now in sole charge of his three wilful children. Lord Gerald has been sent down from University; Lord Silverbridge ha ...Show more
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassm ...Show more
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