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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor); Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics 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 gripped ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | 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
Classic Horror Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft develope ...Show more
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
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
First Men In the Moon by H. G. Wells
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The First Men in the Moonby H. G. WellsThe novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr Cavor. On arrival, Bedford and Cavor find the moon inhabited by a race of moon-folk the two call "Selenites." The novel can als ...Show more
French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas, Sorensen, David R. (Professor of English, Saint Joseph's University), Kinser, Brent E. (Professor of English, Western Caorlina University)
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The product of a powerful and original mind, this is the history that introduced English-speaking people to the full meaning and tragedy of the French Revolution. First published in 1837, this pioneering work established Thomas Carlyle's reputation as a historian of enduring scholarly and popular appeal ...Show more
Indiana by George Sand; Sylvia Raphael (Translator); Naomi Schor (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
George Sand: Indiana Erstdruck 1832 unter dem Titel >Indiana
Island of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The eyes that glanced at me shone with a pale-green light'A crazed vivisectionist engineers a new super-breed of monstrous 'Beast Men' on a remote Pacific island, in H. G. Wells's Victorian scientific nightmare of man playing god.Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Pengui ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | 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
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"The Bront s' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Bront 's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel it ...Show more
Jason and the Golden Fleece. The Argonautica (PB) by Richard Hunter (Translator); Apollonius of Rhodes (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, this epic poem is the crowning literary achievement of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, wr ...Show more
King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare; Jay L. Halio (Editor)
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Category: Plays | Series: World's Classics Ser.
Loyalty and Heredity-- King Henry VIII covers the period of Henry's reign from shortly after he becomes king to the birth of Elizabeth, who would one day become queen and for whom the play was written. The firing of a cannon during the very first performance of this play caused a fire that burnt the Glo ...Show more