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Vendor:Jane Austen
Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
'I wonder what will become of her!'So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet,...- KD2.500
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Vendor:Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil (Oxford World's Classics)
'What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.'Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. This masterpiece of his maturity...- KD4.250
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Vendor:George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Oxford World's Classics)
'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.'1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)
'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!'Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling...- KD2.500
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Vendor:Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
The finest of all Conrad's tales, 'Heart of Darkness' is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr Kurtz. What he sees on his...- KD2.500
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Vendor:René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy (Oxford World's Classics)
'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished'In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Aristotle
The Eudemian Ethics (Oxford World's Classics)
'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life...and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them.'The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life worth living....- KD4.250
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Vendor:H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (Oxford World's Classics)
'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers...'At a Victorian dinner party, in Richmond, London, the Time Traveller returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in...- KD3.000
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Vendor:Karl Marx
Capital (Oxford World's Classics)
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols (Oxford World's Classics)
`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Friedrich Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy (Oxford World's Classics)
'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.'The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford World's Classics)
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain't no matter.So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in...- KD2.250
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
The Tempest: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623, and is...- KD3.250
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (Oxford World's Classics)
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of the Revolution from an essentially...- KD3.000
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Vendor:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
'Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science'For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and Edwardian society, yet curiously timeless in their appeal. The...- KD3.750
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oxford World's Classics)
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...- KD3.000
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Vendor:Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics)
"Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act."At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among...- KD3.000
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Vendor:Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows (Oxford World's Classics)
'Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.'So says Rat to Mole, as he introduces him to the delights of the river and his friends Toad, the spirit of rebellion, and...- KD3.000
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Vendor:Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Oxford World's Classics)
'Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...'In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. In A Room...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume...- KD3.250
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Vendor:Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White (Oxford World's Classics)
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue.The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
Hard Times (Oxford World's Classics)
Hard Times--Dickens's shortest novel and one of his triumphs--tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father and has had lasting appeal to generations of readers.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the...- KD2.250
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Vendor:Leo Tolstoy
The Devil and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya, as it is always impossible to explain why a man chooses this and not that woman.'This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form,...- KD4.750
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Vendor:Friedrich Nietzsche
Ecce Homo (Oxford World's Classics)
'I am not a man, I am dynamite.'Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Aristotle
Physics (Oxford World's Classics)
For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences.This book begins with an analysis of change, which introduces us to Aristotle's central concepts of matter and form, before moving on to an account of explanation in...- KD4.750
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Vendor:Epictetus
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
'About things that are within our power and those that are not.'Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people...- KD4.750
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Vendor:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (Oxford World's Classics)
`I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels.Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of...- KD3.750
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
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 analysis of the play's minor...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Virginia Woolf
The Years (Oxford World's Classics)
As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the `present day' of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, the social strictures of patriarchy, capitalism and Empire, and...- KD4.750
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Vendor:Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers (Oxford World's Classics)
The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world's greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship. The action takes place in the...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)
'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?'Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with...- KD3.250
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics)
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...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass (Oxford World's Classics)
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day.Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There was first published in December 1871 (dated 1872). Although Carroll intended Looking-Glass to be a follow-up piece to the immediately successful Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), he created...- KD3.000
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Vendor:George Orwell
Coming Up for Air (Oxford World's Classics)
Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?'The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to the...- KD4.750
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Julius Caesar's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers.Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare canon...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Carolyne Larrington
The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)
'She sees, coming up a second time,Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,over the mountain hunting fish.'After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's...- KD4.750
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Vendor:Virginia Woolf
Selected Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its...- KD4.750
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
Henry V: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Henry V, the climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, is an inspiring, often comic celebration of a young warrior-king. But it is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war, and of the penalties as well as the glories of human...- KD3.750
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
Richard II: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced representation of the political conflicts of England's past where character and politics are inextricably...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and prose - the lyric poems, plays, longer poems, criticism, and essays - to give the essence...- KD6.000
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Vendor:Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics)
'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover...- KD3.250
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Vendor:H. G. Wells
The First Men in the Moon (Oxford World's Classics)
'My next clear recollection is that we were prisoners at we knew not what depth beneath the moon's surface ...At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the 'most uneventful place in the world' the failed playwright Mr Bedford meets the...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Oxford World's Classics)
'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the ancestral...- KD3.000
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers- a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 Folio text- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language and allusions- detailed introduction considers...- KD3.750
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. It concludes, moreover, with the most daring and moving reconciliation scene in all Shakespeare's...- KD3.750
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Vendor:George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier (Oxford World's Classics)
'It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.'The Road to Wigan Pier is George Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England. It is the book...- KD4.750
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Rene Weis reveals Shakepeare's use of multiple sources to be eclectic in the extreme in this radical reconsideration of the play's date and text. He also argues for the first time that Falstaff was called Oldcastle in Part 2 as well as in Part...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
The Uncommercial Traveller (Oxford World's Classics)
'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?'At the height of his career,...- KD4.750
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit (Oxford World's Classics)
'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.'Introspective and dreamy, Arthur Clennam returns to England from many years abroad to find a people gripped in their self-made...- KD4.750
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