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Vendor:William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew. It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in 1594 as The Taming of the Shrew through several eighteenth-century versions to modern-dress productions and transformations into ballet,...- KD3.750
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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:Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son (Oxford World's Classics)
"Dom-bey and Son"...Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light.The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his...- KD4.750
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics)
In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed `papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still among Dicken's most popular works....- KD4.250
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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: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:William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his financee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny. His sister's virtue is held to ransom by the deputy rule of the city until justice is done, mercy...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Jane Austen
Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)
'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.'Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than...- KD2.500
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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: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:F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned (Oxford World's Classics)
'The victor belongs to the spoils.'F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find meaning and happiness in their lives. The sophisticated but emotionally fragile Anthony Patch enjoys an initially...- KD4.750
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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:F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise (Oxford World's Classics)
The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from indulged only child to disillusioned war veteran, This Side of Paradise is a...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room (Oxford World's Classics)
'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages — oh, here is Jacob's room.'Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit...- KD3.750
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Vendor:The Brontës
Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal (Oxford World's Classics)
'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.'In their collaborative early writings the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters...- KD6.000
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Vendor:Mahatma Gandhi
The Essential Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
'those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means'Mahatma Gandhi was a profound and original thinker as well as one of the most influential figures in the history of the twentieth century. A religious and social...- KD5.250
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Vendor:James Joyce
Finnegans Wake (Oxford World's Classics)
'And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep'In Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, an innkeeper and his family are sleeping. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, desire and transgression, pride and shame,...- KD6.000
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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:Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped (Oxford World's Classics)
'Your bed shall be the moorcock's, and your life shall be like the hunted deer's, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.'Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his...- KD3.750
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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:John Stuart Mill
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings'Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes - whether in the...- KD3.250
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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:William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads (Oxford World's Classics)
'Listen, Stranger!'Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers...- KD4.250
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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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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:Edward FitzGerald
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Oxford World's Classics)
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writMoves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a lineNor all thy tears wash out a word of it.'In the 'rubáiyát' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher...- KD3.750
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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: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:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but...- 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:Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Oxford World's Classics)
'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you,' retorted Jasper, 'because you were the last person in his company, and he is not to be found.' The Mystery of Edwin...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Joseph Conrad
Victory (Oxford World's Classics)
Victory, don't forget, has come out of my innermost self.Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. Sub-titled 'An Island Tale', it tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from...- KD3.750
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit (Oxford World's Classics)
This edition of one of Dickens's earlier novels is based on the accurate Clarendon edition of the text and includes the prefaces to the 1850 and 1867 editions and Dickens's Number Plans. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made...- KD4.750
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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:John Stuart Mill
Principles of Political Economy and Chapters on Socialism (Oxford World's Classics)
This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill's great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary chapters on socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to policy questions of abiding concern, particularly the desirability of sustained growth...- KD5.250
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Vendor:Mary Shelley
The Last Man (Oxford World's Classics)
'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824).Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to...- KD4.750
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Vendor:Jonathan Swift
Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career - prose, poetry, and letters - to give the essence of...- KD6.000
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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:Jack London
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous short stories -...- KD3.000
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Vendor:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World (Oxford World's Classics)
`the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would otherwise disappear.'Headed by the larger than life figure of Professor Challenger, a scientific expedition...- KD3.250
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)
`... holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild, grotesque companions; the only pure, fresh, youthful object in the throng.'`Little Nell' cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty the pair flee London, pursued by the...- KD3.250
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby (Oxford World's Classics)
Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and...- KD4.250
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Vendor:Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge (Oxford World's Classics)
'What dark history is this?'This is the question that hangs over Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence...- KD4.750
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Vendor:W.B. Yeats
The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to...- KD5.250
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part Two: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
The Oxford ShakespeareGeneral Editor Stanley WellsThe 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, collated and edited from all existing printings- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging,...- KD3.750
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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:William Shakespeare
All's Well that Ends Well: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Usually classifed as a 'problem comedy', All's Well that Ends Well invites a fresh assessment. Its psychologically disturbing presentation of an agressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery won it little favour in earlier centuries, and both directors and critics have frequently tried...- KD3.750
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Vendor:William Shakespeare
Henry VI Part Three: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.- a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 First Folio- detailed introduction considers composition, sources, historical events, performances and changing critical attitudes to...- KD3.750
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