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The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The ...Show more
The Prime Minister (#5 Palliser Novels) by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come' Despite his mysterious antecedents, Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society. An unscrupulous financial speculator, he determines to marry into respectability and wealth ...Show more
The Qur'an by M.A.Abdel Haleem
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!' There is no other novel quite like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. George Orwell called it 'a wonder ...Show more
The Republic and The Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a di ...Show more
The Shadow-Line - A Confession by Joseph Conrad
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Only the young have such moments. I don‟t mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no in-trospection.One closes behind one the little ga ...Show more
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she leaves the isolated farm for boarding ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare; Stephen Orgel (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which William Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by Martin Butler. 'How many good ...Show more
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre'Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those in his ...Show more
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by John Polidori
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produ ...Show more
The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de La Valliere and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. This new edition of the classic translation presents a key episode in the Musketeers saga, fully annotated and with an introduction by a leading Dumas scholar. ...Show more
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.' It is impossible to be sure who Melmotte is, let alone what exactly he has done. He is, seemingly, a gentleman, and a great financier, who penetrates to the heart of the state, reaching even inside the Houses of Parliamen ...Show more