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Selected Journalism by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The subject of a work of art has of course nothing to do with its beauty, but still there is always something depressing about the coloured lithograph of a leg of mutton.' Thus, in typical fashion, Oscar Wilde reviews the latest cookery book. Throughout the 1880s Wilde honed his literary talent in num ...Show more
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's ta ...Show more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.' Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror that originated in a feverish nightmare, whose hallucinatory setting in the murky back ...Show more
The Essential Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...' Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, ...Show more
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.' Wealthy American John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly intimate manner how he and his wife Florence meet an English couple in a German spa resort. They become friends over the years and gradually the history of their relationships and ...Show more
The Kill by Emile Zola
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Category: Travel | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; Francis O'Gorman (Editor)
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S EliotWhen Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it. When the diamond goes missing during ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This is the first full-scale edition of Cymbeline for 37 years. During that time, there has been considerable interest in Shakespeare's late work in the theatre, and several notable productions have demonstrated the powerful impact of Cymbeline. Based firmly on Roger Warren's extensive experience of the ...Show more
The Warden: The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.'John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a political radical who has launched a campaign against the management of the charity of which her father is the ...Show more