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Polybius - The Histories by Polybius
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Polybius' account of Rome's rise to world power and her method of rule is a major source for the history of the years 220-146 BC. This new translation includes Books 1-5 in their entirety and all of the fragmentary Books 6 and 12 on the Roman constitution and historiography. It is accompanied by an ill ...Show more
Selected Essays by David Hume
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more popular than his famous Treatise of Human Nature, compre ...Show more
Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its last.' One of t ...Show more
Selected Letters by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Selected Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!' The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose is to reinforce Lucilius' struggl ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World Classics) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | 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
Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe by Juliette (EDT) George; Atkinson Eliot
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Complete and unabridged paperback edition.Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrial ...Show more
Six Tragedies by Seneca
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behavi ...Show more
Sybil - Or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli; Nicholas Shrimpton (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"I'll take the odds against Caravan." "In poneys?" "Done." And Lord Milford, a young noble, entered in his book the bet which he had just made with Mr Latour, a grey headed member of the Jockey Club. It was the eve of the Derby of 1837. In a vast and golden saloon, that in its decorations would have bec ...Show more
Teenage Writings by Jane Austen
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminat ...Show more
The Analects by Confucius
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Few individuals have shaped their country's civilization more profoundly than the Master Kong (Confucius, 551-479 BC). Compulsory reading in the late Imperial period for all who wished to enter the Civil Service or Government, his sayings and those of his disciples form the foundation of a distinct soci ...Show more
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Beautiful and Damned is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find meaning and happiness, told through the lives of Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert. This is the novel that confirmed Fitzgerald's status as the most celebrated young American writer of the T ...Show more