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The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant te ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (or What You Will) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled either by disguises or their own natures, it combines lyrical melancholy with broad comedy. The introducti ...Show more
The Phantom of the Opera by David (TRN) Gaston; Coward Leroux
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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
Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music. In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to changes with ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Oxford World's Classics
`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of thi ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Ball ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners ...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
Zofloya : Or the Moor by Kim Ian (EDT) Charlotte; Michasiw Dacre
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The protagonist of Charlotte Dacre's best known novel, Zofloya, or the Moor(1806) is unique in women's Gothic and Romantic literature, and has more in common with the heroines of Sade or M.G. Lewis than with those of Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith or Jane Austen. No heroine of Radcliffe or Austen could ...Show more