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A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant; David Coward (Translator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In addition to the title story, this selection of twenty-seven stories includes one of Maupassant's most famous tales, The Necklace, and Le Horla, a tale with strange parallels to the author's own descent into madness, as well as many other provocative and often chilling works--spanning the whole range ...Show more
A Life by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 work, remarkable fo ...Show more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literatu ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and of ...Show more
An Australian Girl by Catherine Martin; Graham Tulloch (Editor); Amanda Nettlebeck (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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As You Like It by William Shakespeare; Alan Brissenden (Editor)
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays. In his introduction to this new edition Alan Brissenden suggests reasons for its delayed publication and discusses in detail how productions have changed radically over the years. Sha ...Show more
Civil War by Lucan
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Category: Latin Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The great Roman poet Lucan is considered one of the most important Latin Poets of all time. His masterful epic "Pharsalia", or "Civil War" chronicles the dynamic battle between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. The Great Civil War led to the downfall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the ...Show more
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
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Category: Essays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Culture and Anarchy is one of the central texts of the western intellectual tradition and has helped to shape thinking about the tasks and requirements of culture and civil society. The book is particularly relevant now, however, because it articulates many issues about culture and cultural politics tha ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Don Juan - And Other Plays by Molière; George Graveley (Translator); Ian Maclean (Editor)
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Category: Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This selection of seven of Moli�re's prose plays includes "Precious Provincials," "The Would-be Gentleman," "Don Juan," "The Reluctant Doctor," "Scapin the Schemer," "The Miser," and "George Dandin." About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of ...Show more
Don Quixote by E. C. Riley (Editor); Charles Jarvis (Translator); Miguel de Cervantes
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
'he thought it expedient and necessary that he should commence knight-errant, and wander through the world, with his horse and arms, in quest of adventures'Don Quixote, first published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, is one of the world's greatest comic novels. Inspired by tales of chivalry, Don Quixote ...Show more