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A Life - The Humble Truth by Guy de Maupassant; Roger Pearson (Translator)
$22.95 AUD
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)
$17.95 AUD
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
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)
$15.95 AUD
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
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
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell; John Brannigan (Editor)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Volume 1 of The Complete Works of George Orwell Few authors can have striven so hard to make themselves professional writers as did George Orwell. As a child he talked of becoming a writer; he wrote for student publications at Eton; whilst serving in the Imperial Police in Burma he sketched out ideas f ...Show more
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac; Sylvia Raphael (Translator); Christopher Prendergast (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Eugénie Grandet, written in 1833, is one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comédie Humaine. Here, the Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugénie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and ...Show more
French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas, Sorensen, David R. (Professor of English, Saint Joseph's University), Kinser, Brent E. (Professor of English, Western Caorlina University)
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The product of a powerful and original mind, this is the history that introduced English-speaking people to the full meaning and tragedy of the French Revolution. First published in 1837, this pioneering work established Thomas Carlyle's reputation as a historian of enduring scholarly and popular appeal ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is ha ...Show more
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant; Christopher Bennett (Translator); Joe Saunders (Translator); Robert Stern (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. This new edition and translation of Kant's work is designed especia ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell; Lisa Mullen (Editor)
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it." Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE by Alexandre Dumas; David Coward (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Louise de la Balliere is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask.It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turm ...Show more