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A Life - The Humble Truth by Guy de Maupassant; Roger Pearson (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life ha ...Show more
A Love Story by Émile Zola; Helen Constantine (Translator); Brian Nelson (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it were the only air they could breathe.'Hélène Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, from Egypt to Uzbekistan, and died in Ba ...Show more
Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra by Sophocles
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, So ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more im ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (PB) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'This is a new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866) by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. Young.The impoverished student Raskolni ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction | 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
Defence Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'But I must stop now. I can no longer speak for tears - and my client has ordered that tears are not to be used in his defence.'Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world: he dominated the Roman courts, usually appearing for the defence. His speeches are masterpieces of persuasion: ...Show more
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Christopher (INT) Robin (TRN); Gill Epictetus; Hard
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Category: Self Development | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Doctor Pascal by Emile Zola
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart series. Pascal Rougon has spent his life chronicling the hereditary patterns and illnesses of his family, using medicine to attempt cures, whilst his niece Clotilde places her faith in God. 'There's something of everything th ...Show more