MARRIED LOVE by Marie Stopes; Ross McKibbin (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'In my own marriage I paid such a terrible price for sex-ignorance that I feel that knowledge gained at such a cost should be placed at the service of humanity.'The book that was to become Married Love grew from Marie Stopes's conviction that the state of modern middle-class marriage was, like her own, ...Show more
DOMBEY AND SON by Charles Dickens; Alan Horsman (Editor); Dennis Walder (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
Charles Dickens's Dombey and Sonis a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's pride, edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders in Penguin Classics. To Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as ...Show more
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens Charles
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Of all the Dickens I've read ... Our Mutual Friend remains my favorite. -- Jane Smiley.A young man returns from abroad to claim his inheritance -- but he never arrives and is presumed to have drowned in the Thames. Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, a warmhearted, working-class couple, are the next heirs in line, and ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
When Isabel Archer, a young American woman with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as 'a place of brightness, of free expression, of irresistible action'. She turns aside from suitors who offer her their wealth and devotion to follow her own path. But that way leads to di ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, 'a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, 'of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grie ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siec ...Show more
COMPLETE SHORTER FICTION by Oscar Wilde; Isobel Murray (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The Fisherman and hi ...Show more
DRACULA by Bram Stoker; Maud Ellmann (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house' He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath... Yet even Count Dracula's unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan ...Show more
Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This ed ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; David Wright (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter, Sheila Fisher's vivid, lively, and readable translation makes the poetic artistry of The Canterbury Tales accessible to a contemporary ear and invites readers, even those who have read the work before in Middle English, to a new appreciation of its delightful storie ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This new edition of Emily Bronte's classic 1847 novel uses the authoritative Clarendon text. Patsy Stoneman's introduction considers the bewildering variety of critical interpretation to which the novel has been subject, as well as offering some provocative new insights for the modern reader.