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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 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
CRIMES OF LOVE by Sade Marquis De
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depra ...Show more
Cecilia by Frances Burney; Peter Sabor (Editor); Margaret Anne Doody (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity and social analysis. About the Series: ...Show more
Classic Horror Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft develope ...Show more
Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud; Martin Sorrell (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert CamusRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 an ...Show more
Evelina by Frances Burney; Vivien Jones (Introduction by); Edward A. Bloom (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, the title character leaves her isolated country home for vibrant London society. As she stumbles through the city, she encounters many people including the handsome, Lord Orville. Evelina is a young woman who's spent her entire childh ...Show more
Evolutionary Writings (Including the Autobiographies) by Charles Darwin & James A. Secord (ed.)
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Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Jou ...Show more
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus a ...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: Classics | 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
Hamsun's Hunger by Knut Hamsun , Tore Rem, Terence Cave
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This new translation seeks to restore the startling freshness and epidermal unease of Hamsun's breakthrough story of 1890. It remains faithful to the style and voice of the text, the shifts of tense, the indirect free style, and the constant changes of register as the inner monologue moves between poeti ...Show more
LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM by Tasso, Torquato, Wickert, Max (Associate Professor Emeritus, State University at Buffalo, New York)
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In The Liberation of Jerusalem (1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out alongside a magi ...Show more