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Paradise Lost by John Milton; Jonathan Goldberg (Editor); Stephen Orgel (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam ...Show more
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope; Simon Dentith
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's ...Show more
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything' After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the political and social world has subtly changed, parties and policies no longer fixed and advancement dependent u ...Show more
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty, playful work Constantius explores the nature of love an ...Show more
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings by Thomas Paine; Mark Philp (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Painepaid the price ...Show more
SELECTED POEMS WITH PARALLEL SPANISH TEXT by LORCA FEDERICO GARCIA
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Federico García Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lorca's poetry is steeped in the land, climate, and folklore of his native Andalusia, thou ...Show more
SPOILS OF POYNTON by JAMES HENRY
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Mrs. Gereth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fianc�e. When she discovers that her young friend and sympathizer Fleda Vetch is secretly in love with Owen, she thrusts her into the battle-line ...Show more
Selected Letters by Cicero
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!'Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. His letters to friends and family are an aston ...Show more
Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most outstanding poets of late nineteenth- ...Show more
Sentimental Education by Gustave. Flaubert; Helen Constantine; Patrick Coleman (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his passion into decisive action. He also finds ...Show more
Six Nineteenth Century French Poets - With Parallel French Text by A. M. Blackmore (Edited and Translated by); E. H. Blackmore (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and profane, passionate and satirical, these remarkable and innovat ...Show more
Tarr by Wyndham Lewis; Scott W. Klein (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, li ...Show more