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The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Brian Cummings
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'In the midst of life we are in death' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also hi ...Show more
The Charterhouse of Parma by STENDHAL
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo. The novel's great achievement is to conjure up the exci ...Show more
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels; David McLellan (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make Engels's ...Show more
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil; Mike Mitchell; Ritchie Robertson
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate'Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he stru ...Show more
The Dream by Émile Zola; Paul Gibbard (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Dream by Émile Zola, 1888.Émile Zola (1840 - 1902) was a Frenchnovelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of theliterary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to thedevelopment of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in thepolitical liberalization of France an ...Show more
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene. A ...Show more
The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer; Robert Fraser (Editor)
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Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906- ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to Eng ...Show more
The Lives of the Poets : A Selection by Samuel Johnson (ed Roger Lonsdale)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as w ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Spanning a period of 10 to 15 years, the novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss. The mill is situated at the junction of the River Floss and the more minor River Ripple, near the village of St Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. Both the r ...Show more
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tor ...Show more