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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor); Charles Dickens
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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped ...Show more
A Life by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more im ...Show more
CORINNE by Madame de Staël; Sylvia Raphael (Edited and Translated by); John Isbell (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.'Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in Italy, Oswald immediately falls under Corinne's magical spel ...Show more
CRIMES OF LOVE by Sade Marquis De
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depra ...Show more
Civil War by Lucan
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The great Roman poet Lucan is considered one of the most important Latin Poets of all time. His masterful epic "Pharsalia", or "Civil War" chronicles the dynamic battle between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The Great Civil War led to the downfall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the ...Show more
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Elizabeth Porges Watson (Editor); Charlotte Mitchell (Introduction by, Notes by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
DOCTORS WIFE by Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Lyn Pykett (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Isabel Gilbert was not a woman of the world. She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers...she believed in a phantasmal world created out of the pages of poets and romancers.'The Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores h ...Show more
DOCTORS WIFE by Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Lyn Pykett (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Isabel Gilbert was not a woman of the world. She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers...she believed in a phantasmal world created out of the pages of poets and romancers.'The Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores h ...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
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