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About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achie ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued fro ...Show more
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus,: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part ...Show more
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus a ...Show more
Gorgias by Plato
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Category: No Category | 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
Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth; Pamela Woof (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'I went and sate with W and walked backwards and forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.'Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the in ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.' Sharpe's London Magazine (June 1855) Jane Eyre is an orphan grown up under the harsh regime first of her aunt and then as a pupil at Lowood Institution. She leaves to become a governes ...Show more
MIDDLEMARCH by ELIOT GEORGE
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking ove ...Show more
Republic by Plato .
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary ...Show more
Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.' Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classics of political philosophy, widely regarded as the foundational text of modern liberalism. In it Locke ...Show more
Selected Writings of William Hazlitt by William Hazlitt
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Oxford World's Classics
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama, and painting, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. What unites this variety is his dramatic and passionate intelligence, his unswerving commitment to individual an ...Show more
Swann in Love by Marcel Proust
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Swann's love ...could not have been torn out of him without destroying him almost entirely' Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illuminates the ...Show more