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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition by H.W. Fowler
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Category: English Language | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize ...' No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes to the English language in Britain than Henry Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It rapidly became the standard w ...Show more
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This volume includes "The Battle of the Books" and "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit," both which accompanied "A Tale of a Tub" on its first publication in 1704.
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: 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 ...Show more
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations is as fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when it was first published in 1862. The controversial portrait of Bazarov, the energetic, cynical, and self-assured `nihilist' who repudiates the romanticism of his elders, shook Russia ...Show more
Germinal by Emile Zola ; Robert (INT) Peter (TRN); Lethbridge Emile; Collier Zola
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Kim by KIPLING, RUDYARD
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. ABOUT THE SERIES: For ov ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories. Set in a small New England community, it tells of the March family: Marmee looks after daughters in the absence of her husband, who is serving as an army chaplain in ...Show more
Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siecle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a rigorousl ...Show more
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s, after three hundred years of neglect by the theatre and undervaluation and misuse by critics. The Intr ...Show more
Myths From Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
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Category: Business/Economics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale o ...Show more
Parzival and Titurel by Wolfram von Eschenbach
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. Written in the first decade of the thirteenth century, Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival ...Show more
Round Dance and Other Plays by Arthur Schnitzler
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This book features the plays - "Flirtations", "Round Dance", "The Green Cockatoo", "The Last Masks", "Countess Mizzi", "The Vast Domain", "Professor Bernhardi". The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de siecle Viennese decadence. "Round Dance", written in the late 1890s, ...Show more