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Six Nineteenth Century French Poets - With Parallel French Text by A. M. Blackmore (Edited and Translated by); E. H. Blackmore (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and profane, passionate and satirical, these remarkable and innovat ...Show more
Tarr by Wyndham Lewis; Scott W. Klein (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, li ...Show more
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Brian Cummings
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'In the midst of life we are in death' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also hi ...Show more
The Charterhouse of Parma by STENDHAL
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo. The novel's great achievement is to conjure up the exci ...Show more
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels; David McLellan (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make Engels's ...Show more
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil; Mike Mitchell; Ritchie Robertson
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate'Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he stru ...Show more
The Crimes of Love by Marquis de Sade
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...' Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, ...Show more
The Dream by Émile Zola; Paul Gibbard (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Dream by Émile Zola, 1888.Émile Zola (1840 - 1902) was a Frenchnovelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of theliterary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to thedevelopment of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in thepolitical liberalization of France an ...Show more
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene. A ...Show more
The Fortune of the Rougons by Brian Nelson; Émile Zola
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Category: Special Orders | Series: World's Classics Ser.
The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about, and the origins of the hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder, treachery, and greed are the keynotes, and just as the Empire was est ...Show more
The Gallic War by Julius Caesar
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Category: Classics | Series: World's Classics Ser.
The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one level a straightforward narrative of the campaigns Caesar fought against the Gauls, Germans and Britons, ...Show more
The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer; Robert Fraser (Editor)
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Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906- ...Show more