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SANDITON by AUSTEN JANE
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Sanditon (1817) is an unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen. In January 1817, Austen began work on a new novel she called The Brothers, later titled Sanditon, and completed eleven chapters before stopping work in mid-March 1817, probably because of her illness. R.W. Chapman first published ...Show more
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.' The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captu ...Show more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending is one ...Show more
The Annals : The reigns of Tiberius, Clauduis and Nero by Cornelius Tacitus
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden...In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius and the 'artist' Nero. The Annals is a gripping accoun ...Show more
The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand pro ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
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Category: No Category | 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 Karamazov Brothers (PB) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Ignat Avsey (Edited and translated by
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyos ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Lusíads by Luis Vaz de Camões; Landeg White (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
1998 is the quincentenary of Vasca da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to cross the equator. The freshness of that original encount ...Show more
The Masterpiece by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salo ...Show more
The Odd Women by George Gissing
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours ...So many odd women - no making a pair with them.' The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the 'New Woman' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women (1893) Gissing satirizes the prevailing ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Shewring's superb prose translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow.