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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
Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville
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Category: Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This ed ...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
Pamela by RICHARDSON SAMUEL
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Category: Fiction | 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
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings by Thomas Paine; Mark Philp (Editor)
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Painepaid the price ...Show more
The Assommoir by Émile Zola; Brian Nelson; Robert Lethbridge (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!'In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people's dirty clothes in the local washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But ...Show more
The Dream by Émile Zola; Paul Gibbard (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Dream by Émile Zola, 1888.Émile Zola (1840 - 1902) was a Frenchnovelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of theliterary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to thedevelopment of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in thepolitical liberalization of France an ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; Francis O'Gorman (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S EliotWhen Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it. When the diamond goes missing during ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Self Development | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more