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A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BO by DICKENS CHARLES
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has grippe ...Show more
A Case of Hysteria: (Dora) by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
'I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.' A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him. The 18-year-old 'Dora' was sent for ...Show more
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition by H.W. Fowler
$47.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics
No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes to the English language in Britain than Henry Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It rapidly became the standard work of reference for the correct use of English in terms of choice of words, grammar, and style. Much loved for his firm ...Show more
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement fr ...Show more
"A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In these texts, Virginia Woolf considers the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In "A Room of One's Own" (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women's creativity will not be hampered by poverty, o ...Show more
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's c ...Show more
About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achie ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, e ...Show more
Against Nature: A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-ce ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Rosamund (TRN) Leo; Bartlett Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Apollodorus : The Library Of Greek Mythology by APOLLODORUS
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Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century B ...Show more
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
$18.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. This masterpie ...Show more