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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by WOOLF VIRGINIA
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...' Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, 'A Room of One's Own' inter ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and of ...Show more
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus a ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to ana ...Show more
The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer; Robert Fraser (Editor)
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Category: Mind, Body, Spirit | 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 Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tor ...Show more
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | 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
William Blake - Selected Poems by William Blake; Nicholas Shrimpton (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'To see a World in a Grain of Sand'And a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour'William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with ...Show more
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