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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Oxford World Classics) by Charles Dickens; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'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
Crime and Punishment (Oxford World Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conven ...Show more
L'Assommoir by Émile Zola; Margaret Mauldon (Translator); Robert Lethbridge (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
L'Assommoir est un roman d' mile Zola publi en feuilleton d s 1876 dans Le Bien public, puis dans La R publique des Lettres1 avant sa sortie en livre en 1877 chez Georges Charpentier. C'est le septi me volume de la s rie Les Rougon-Macquart. C'est un ouvrage totalement consacr au monde ouvrier et, selon ...Show more
Moby Dick by Melville Herman
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. W ...Show more
Nana by Douglas Parmée (Edited and Translated by); Émile Zola
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-si cle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laun ...Show more
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto; Guido Waldman (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Estratto: ...avverra che poi si deggia morire, allora il minor mal s'elleggia. - 85 Non credo che quest'ultime parole potesse esprimer si, che fosse inteso; e fini come il debol lume suole, cui cera manchi od altro in che sia acceso. Chi potra dire a pien come si duole, poi che si vede pallido e disteso ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World Classics) by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
"Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet." For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ru ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version by God
Category: Bibles | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. ...Show more
The Koran by A.J. Arberry
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Koran is a book apart, not only as Holy Scripture for Muslims, but as the supreme classic of Arabic literature. In its 114 Suras, or chapters, it comprises the total of revelations believed to have been communicated to the prophet Muhammad as a final expression of God's will and purpose for man. The ...Show more
The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create ...Show more
Trojan Women and Other Plays by Byron Gallery Staff; Eurípides; Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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