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.
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
A story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarefied sensibilities of the upper-class England of Austen's day, the novel is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging story.
MANSFIELD PARK by Jane Austen; James Kinsley (Editor); Jane Stabler (Other)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
Mansfield Park is the chronicle of the trials of Fanny Price. Sweet, innocent, sensitive, and thoroughly proper, Fanny is taken from her family and raised by wealthy, but selfish relatives. All her qualities are tested when she becomes the object of the unwanted attentions of an insincere rake.
LIBERATION OF JERUSALEM by Tasso, Torquato, Wickert, Max (Associate Professor Emeritus, State University at Buffalo, New York)
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
WILKIE COLLINS by Lyn Pykett
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In a literary career spanning over forty years, Wilkie Collins wrote over twenty novels, several plays, and numerous short stories. However, he is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White. Irregular liasons, the chaotic state of the marriage laws, social and psychologica ...Show more
MARBLE FAUN by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Susan Manning (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Murder and romance, innocence and experience dominate this sinister novel set in mid-19th-century Rome when a violent crime of passion irrevocably links the lives of 3 young American artists and their Italian friend.
OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS by Joseph Conrad; Hans van Marle (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Complete and unabridged edition. An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, fin ...Show more
ESTHER WATERS by George Moore; David Skilton (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, a ...Show more
MAN AND WIFE by Wilkie Collins; Norman Page (Introduction by, Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain impe ...Show more