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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to Eng ...Show more
The Lives of the Poets : A Selection by Samuel Johnson (ed Roger Lonsdale)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as w ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Spanning a period of 10 to 15 years, the novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss. The mill is situated at the junction of the River Floss and the more minor River Ripple, near the village of St Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. Both the r ...Show more
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He notes everything from the habits of an eccentric tor ...Show more
The Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, and partly because of the light they cast on the intellectual life of first-century Rom ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more
The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings by René Descartes; Michael Moriarty (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.' Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But he also acknowledged the intimate union between them, and in his later writings he concentrated on under ...Show more
The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays by Synge , J.M
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Synge was one of the key dramatists in the flourishing world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers every one of his plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism. The introduction to this new, definitive edition sets the plays in the ...Show more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!' There is no other novel quite like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. George Orwell called it 'a wonder ...Show more
The Shadow-Line - A Confession by Joseph Conrad
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Only the young have such moments. I don‟t mean the very young. No. The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no in-trospection.One closes behind one the little ga ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare; Stephen Orgel (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which William Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by Martin Butler. 'How many good ...Show more