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Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings by Thomas Paine; Mark Philp (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Painepaid the price ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes - Selected Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'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 characters of Sherlo ...Show more
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence; David Trotter (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
First published in 1913, "Sons and Lovers" is D. H. Lawrence's provocative semi-autobiographical novel. The work is based in part on his own family, his mother married a miner like the matriarch of the novel and consequently felt constrained by being relegated to a working class life. The story reflects ...Show more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending is one ...Show more
The Aeneid by Virgil; Jasper Griffin (Editor); Cecil Day-Lewis (Translator)
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Category: Latin Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Also in the manner of Homer, the story proper begins in medias res with the Trojan fleet in the eastern Mediterranean, heading in the direction of Italy. The fleet, led by Aeneas, is on a voyage to find a second home. It has been foretold that in Italy he will give rise to a race both noble and courageo ...Show more
The Comedies by Terence
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Category: Latin Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.'Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome, he has influen ...Show more
The Devil Is an Ass and Other Plays by Ben Jonson; M. J. Kidney (Editor)
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Category: Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A quintesstential selection of the dramatic work of Ben Jonson, this edition features the plays Poetaster, Sejanus, The Devil is An Ass, and New Inn. Jonson's work is renowned for its wit and biting religions and social commentary these four plays are no exception. The plays featured in this edition hav ...Show more
The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon; Brian Vickers (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
`their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life; and in consequence you find what you seldom find in other books.'Samuel JohnsonCelebrated today as a writer and scientist, Francis Bacon was for the most part of his life occupied with the law and ...Show more
The Golden Bowl by Henry James; Virginia Llewellyn Smith (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important ...Show more
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth
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Category: Literary biography | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I went and sate with W and walked backwards and forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.'Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the in ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
"The Idiot" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1868 novel which tells the story of Prince Lyov Nikolayevich Myshkin who, after a long absence, returns to Russia from Switzerland where he sought treatment for his epilepsy. The story is primarily a tragic tale of the struggle for the love of a woman, Nastasya Filipp ...Show more
The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins; Jenny B. Taylor (Introduction by, Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A groundbreaking detective story by the celebrated author of The Moonstone When Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville, both families object strongly. Before long, Valeria realizes that they may have been right to voice their concerns. Eustace, it seems, is living under an assumed name. This alone w ...Show more