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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially private point of v ...Show more
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!'Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. ...Show more
Cecilia by Frances Burney; Peter Sabor (Editor); Margaret Anne Doody (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity and social analysis. About the Series: ...Show more
Classic Horror Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
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Category: Classics | 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
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a Londo ...Show more
First Men In the Moon by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | 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
Gorgias by Plato
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Category: Philosophy | 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
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.' In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how fa ...Show more
Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson OWC by Darryl Jones (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horrors, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and precognition. This anthology brings togethertwenty-nine of ...Show more
Indiana by George Sand; Sylvia Raphael (Translator); Naomi Schor (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
George Sand: Indiana Erstdruck 1832 unter dem Titel >Indiana
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
Island of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | 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