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Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
$22.95 AUD
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
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep' In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transgression, pride and shame, rivalry and conflict, gossip ...Show more
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
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Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissa ...Show more
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissa ...Show more
Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier , The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, The Pot of Gold: "The Braggart Soldier", "The Brothers Menaechmus", "The Haunted House", "The Pot of Gold" by Titus Maccius Plautus
$18.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humour, and irreverent characterizations ar ...Show more
Four Major Plays by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.
French Decadent Tales by Stephen Romer (University of Tours Ma??tre de Conf??rences, Tours University)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siecle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literatur ...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
Gorgias by Plato
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of rhetoric, the dialogue soon becomes an investigation into ...Show more
Gothic Tales ( Oxford World Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing ...Show more
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant; Christopher Bennett (Translator); Joe Saunders (Translator); Robert Stern (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. This new edition and translation of Kant's work is designed especia ...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