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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by Robert (EDT) Herman; Milder Melville
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good ...Show more
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The people are silent' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramati ...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
Candide and other stories by VOLTAIRE
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr P ...Show more
Capital by Karl Marx
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had d ...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
Christina Rossetti: Poems and Prose by Christina Rossetti
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even deadly. She is a religious poet, but much of her work is dri ...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
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persec ...Show more
Cousin Bette by David (INT) Sylvia (TRN); Bellos Honore de; Raphael Balzac
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France stru ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Oxford World Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conven ...Show more