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Italian Renaissance Tales
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty-nine stories by nineteen authors, many translate ...Show more
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines ...Show more
Major Works by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career - prose, poetry, and letters - to give the essence of his work and thinking. ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to ana ...Show more
Myths From Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
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Category: Mythology | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale o ...Show more
Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon by Claudia L. (INT) John N. (EDT); Johnson James (EDT); Davie Jane; Kinsley Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto; Guido Waldman (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Estratto: ...avverra che poi si deggia morire, allora il minor mal s'elleggia. - 85 Non credo che quest'ultime parole potesse esprimer si, che fosse inteso; e fini come il debol lume suole, cui cera manchi od altro in che sia acceso. Chi potra dire a pien come si duole, poi che si vede pallido e disteso ...Show more
Pamela by RICHARDSON SAMUEL
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), a prominent London printer, is considered by many the father of the English novel, and Pamela the first modern novel. Following its hugely successful publication in 1740, it went on to become one of the most influential books in literary history, setting the course for the ...Show more
Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World Classics) by Tim Kendall (Professor of English Literature, University of Exeter)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of wa ...Show more
Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille) by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the glob ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now r ...Show more
Roxana : The Fortunate Mistress by John (EDT) Daniel; Mullan Defoe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics