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SANDITON by AUSTEN JANE
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Sanditon (1817) is an unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen. In January 1817, Austen began work on a new novel she called The Brothers, later titled Sanditon, and completed eleven chapters before stopping work in mid-March 1817, probably because of her illness. R.W. Chapman first published ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; John Mullan (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striki ...Show more
Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe by Juliette (EDT) George; Atkinson Eliot
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Category: Classics | 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
Tale of a Tub and Other Works by Jonathan Swift; Angus Ross (Editor); David Woolley (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This volume includes "The Battle of the Books" and "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit," both which accompanied "A Tale of a Tub" on its first publication in 1704. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the glob ...Show more
Teenage Writings by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | 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 Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or the Fox; Epicene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholemew Fair by Ben Jonson
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice. The first production of Epicene marked the end of a year long closure of the theatres becaus ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. ...Show more
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pionee ...Show more
The Koran by A.J. Arberry
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Koran is a book apart, not only as Holy Scripture for Muslims, but as the supreme classic of Arabic literature. In its 114 Suras, or chapters, it comprises the total of revelations believed to have been communicated to the prophet Muhammad as a final expression of God's will and purpose for man. The ...Show more
The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob: WITH Brother Jacob by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the b ...Show more
The Lusíads by Luis Vaz de Camões; Landeg White (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
1998 is the quincentenary of Vasca da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to cross the equator. The freshness of that original encount ...Show more
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The ...Show more