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Selected Critical Writings by George Eliot; Rosemary Ashton (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Famous for her powerful and popular fiction, George Eliot was also a remarkable critic, translator, and editor. This volume presents Eliot's views on science, religion, positivism, feminism, and politics, as well as her literary critical work on a range of authors and forms, including Tennyson, Browning ...Show more
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë; Margaret Smith (Editor); Herbert Rosengarten (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Shirley by Charlotte Bront Set in Yorkshire during the time of the Luddite unrest-a labor movement that began in 1811-1812 in an effort to protect the interests of the working class-the novel consists of two narrative strands woven together, one involving the struggles of workers against mill owners, an ...Show more
Sophocles - Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra by Sophocles; H. D. F. Kitto (Translator); Edith Hall (Editor, Introduction by, Notes by)
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Category: Greek Literature | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are ...Show more
The Alchemist and Other Plays - Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholemew Fair by Ben Jonson; Gordon Campbell (Editor)
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Category: Drama | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the ...Show more
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace; David West (Translator)
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Category: Latin Literature | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Steeped in allusion to contemporary affairs, Horace's verse is best read in terms of his changing relationship to the public sphere. While t ...Show more
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; Guido Waldman (Translator); Jonathan Usher (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The World's Classics Series | Reading Level: very good
Charming in its wise and humane melancholy, this didactic romance Dr. Johnson published in 1759 tells the story of the Emporer of Abyssinia's son, weary of the joys of the happy valley, travels to Aegypt to study the human condition.
The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins; Jenny B. Taylor (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
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 wo ...Show more
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Category: Literary biography | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bront (1857) is a landmark biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bront , and, having been invited to write the official life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those ...Show more
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe; Bonamy Dobree (Editor); Frederick Garber (As told to)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Mysterious sounds, opened doors, frightful legends and a nameless horror in a niche behind a black veil all operate in quick succession to unnerve the heroine and her faithful attendant, Annette; but finally, after the death of her aunt, she escapes with the aid of a fellow-prisoner whom she has discove ...Show more
The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray; Andrew Sanders (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: 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 importa ...Show more
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett; Margaret Harris (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SATHNAM SANGHERAYou might find it hard to imagine that those stout ageing spinsters living quietly in small English towns ever led lives of passion or hardship, that they ever possessed beauty or romantic ideals. In The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett tells the story of two such ...Show more