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A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
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
Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth; Pamela Woof (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'I went and sate with W and walked backwards and forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.'Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the in ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"The Bront s' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Bront 's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel it ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often paradoxical and always arbitrary fates of his human and div ...Show more
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass; Deborah E. McDowell (Editor)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with Frederick Douglass, the writer of the following Narrative. He was a stranger to nearly every member of that body; but, having recently made his escape from the souther ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now r ...Show more
The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer; Robert Fraser (Editor)
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Category: Classics | 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 Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew - The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; H. J. Oliver (Editor)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competitionThis edition of The Taming of the Shrew is edited with an introduction and notes by series editor Stephen Orgel and was recently repackaged with cover ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw & Other Stories by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eer ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf; David Bradshaw (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMAN The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf construct ...Show more