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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
La Bete Humaine by Émile Zola; Roger Pearson (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Extrait: ...Ce n'etait, certes, pas le moment de se quereller. La neige redoublait, le rideau s'epaississait a l'horizon. On continuait de monter, lorsque le chauffeur, a son tour, crut voir etinceler un feu rouge, au loin. D'un mot, il avertit son chef. Mais deja il ne le retrouvait plus, ses yeux avai ...Show more
Letters of a Peruvian Woman by Françoise de Graffigny; Jonathan Mallinson (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of that contempt in which women are held in this country ...'Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is rescued and taken to France by Déterville, a noble ...Show more
Major Works by Clare, John, Robinson, Eric, Powell, David
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
After years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was generally not appreciated by his contemporaries, and his later mental instability furthercontributed to his lo ...Show more
Major Works: Alexander Pope by Pope Alexander Rogers Pat
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Alexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work, the texts are presented inchronologic ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and div ...Show more
Middlemarch OWC by George Eliot; David Carroll (Editor); David Russell (Other)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
BOOK I.MISS BROOKE.CHAPTER I. Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it. --The Maid's Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown intorelief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed thatshe could w ...Show more
Moby Dick by Melville Herman
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. W ...Show more
Money by Émile Zola; Valerie Minogue
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugene Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hameli ...Show more
OEDIPUS THE KING AND OTHER TRAGEDIES OEDIPUS THE KING AIAS PHILOCTETES OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by SOPHOCLES
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at ColonusSophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. In these four tragedies he portrays the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths ...Show more
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto; Guido Waldman (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Estratto: ...avverra che poi si deggia morire, allora il minor mal s'elleggia. - 85 Non credo che quest'ultime parole potesse esprimer si, che fosse inteso; e fini come il debol lume suole, cui cera manchi od altro in che sia acceso. Chi potra dire a pien come si duole, poi che si vede pallido e disteso ...Show more
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family life, economic activity, and the political structure of t ...Show more