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Lives Of The Caesars by Suetonius
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much concern for their reliabili ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.' Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman - 'as unflinching as a hero in a book' - who is disgra ...Show more
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Fiction | 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
Man in the Iron Mask by DUMAS
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials - 'l'action et l'amour'. This historical romance is the climax of his epic of chivalry and valour that began with The Three Musketeers, and it is here that Athos, P ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: Books on Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and div ...Show more
Middlemarch OWC by George Eliot; David Carroll (Editor); David Russell (Other)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
BOOK I.MISS BROOKE.CHAPTER I. Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it. --The Maid's Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown intorelief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed thatshe could w ...Show more
My Antonia - Oxford World's Classics by Willa Cather (Author) , Janet Sharistanian (Edited by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains...And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.' My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of Eur ...Show more
Nana by Douglas Parmée (Edited and Translated by); Émile Zola
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-si cle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laun ...Show more
Nana by Emile Zola
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.' North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsou ...Show more
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious.' Willa Cather's second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells the story of Alexandra Bergson and her determina ...Show more