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| "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and ragedI was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror' Stevenson's short novel published in 1886 became an instant classic It was a Gothic horror that originated in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the murky back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence The respectable doctor's mysterious relationship with his disreputable associate is finally revealed in one of the most original and thrilling endings in English literature In addition to Jekyll and Hyde this edition also includes a number of short stories and essays written by Stevenson in the 1880s minor masterpieces of fiction and comment 'The Body Snatcher' 'Markheim' and 'Olalla' feature grave-robbing a sinister double and degeneracy while 'A Chapter on Dreams' and 'A Gossip on Romance' discuss artistic creation and the 'romance' form Appendixes provide extracts from contemporary writings on personality disorder which set Stevenson's tale in its full historical context ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature A probing speculative book often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement it examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russia and Europe at the time The Gambler (1866) set in the fictional town of Roulettenberg explores the compulsive nature of gambling one of the author's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama Specially commissioned for the World's Classics this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something some idea of himself perhaps that had gone into loving Daisy His life had been confused and disordered since then but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly he could find out what that thing was The Great Gatsby (1925) F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece stands among the greatest of all American fiction Jay Gatsby's lavish lifestyle in a mansion on Long Island's gold coast encapsulates the spirit excitement and violence of the era Fitzgerald named 'the Jazz Age' Impelled by his love for Daisy Buchanan Gatsby seeks nothing less than to recapture the moment five years earlier when his best and brightest dreams - his 'unutterable visions' - seemed to be incarnated in her kiss A moving portrayal of the power of romantic imagination as well as the pathos and courage entailed in the pusuit of an unattainable dream The Great Gatsby is a classic fiction of hope and disillusion This edition is fully annotated with a fine Introduction incorporating new interpretation and detailing Fitzgerald's struggle to write the novel its critical reception and its significance for future generations ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Dubliners by James Joyce (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "&39;I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne&39;James Joyce&39;s disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers resisting their demands to remove swear words real place names and much else including two entire stories Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book Joyce already knew its worth to alter it in any way would &39;retard the course of civilisation in Ireland&39; Joyce&39;s aim was to tell the truth - to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners - a death an encounter an opportunity not taken a memory rekindled - and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&39;s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&39;s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel It is a portrait of a young man who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach through his years in Cambridge then in artistic London and finally making a trip to Greece but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman Jacob is presented in glimpses in fragments as Woolf breaks down traditional ways of representing character and experience The novel's composition coincided with the consolidation of Woolf's interest in feminism and she criticizes the privileged thoughtless smugness of patriarchy 'the other side' 'the men in clubs and Cabinets' Her stylistic innovations are conscious attempts to realize and develop women's writing and the novel dramatizes her interest in the ways both language and social environments shape differently the lives of men and women ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "'I am making up To the Lighthouse - the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse It concerns the Ramsay family and their summer guests on the Isle of Skye before and after the First World War As children play and adults paint talk muse and explore relationships shift and mutate A captivating fusion of elegy autobiography socio-political critique and visionary thrust it is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels On completing it she thought she had exorcised the ghosts of her imposing parents but she had also brought form to a book every bit as vivid and intense as the work of Lily Briscoe the indomitable artist at the centre of the novel ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition by Captain Robert Falcon Scott (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "&39;For God&39;s sake look after our people&39; Captain Scott&39;s harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913 In his journals Scott records his party&39;s optimistic departure from New Zealand the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica and the trek with ponies and dogs across the ice to the Pole On the way the explorers conduct scientific experiments collect specimens and get to know each other&39;s charactersTheir discovery that Amundsen has beaten them to their goal and the endurance with which they face an 850-mile march to safety have become the stuff of legend This new edition publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott&39;s original text before publication In his Introduction Max Jones illuminates the Journals&39; writing and publication Scott&39;s changing reputation and the continued attraction of heroes in our cynical ageABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&39;s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&39;s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris The store is a symbol of capitalism of the modern city and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century Octave Mouret the store's owner-manager masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to be commodified This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest novels of the modern city ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Masterpiece by Emile Zola (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deformed child Jacques - is sacrificed on the altar of Art The Masterpiece is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series Set in the 1860s and 1870s it provides a unique insight into his career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemia world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despit the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Kill by Emile Zola (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds the cracking of whips the flaring of torches The appetites let loose were satisfied at last shamelessly amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months The city had become an orgy of gold and women' The Kill (La Curee) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels Les Rougon-Macquart and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable 'appetites' unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann the novel combines into a single powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure The all-pervading promiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator Saccard his neurotic wife Renee and her dandified lover Saccard's son Maxime ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority and how much might be set apart for freedom in working' North and South is a novel about rebellion Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman and from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience Through the story of Margaret Hale the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder John Thornton This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "&39;I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is love you and long for you and keep wanting you till I die&39;Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and respectable middle-aged Farmer Boldwood And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy&39;s novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility This new edition retains the critical text that restores previously deleted and revised passages ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&39;s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&39;s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Saint Bede (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation of the Ecclesiastical History this edition includes a new translation of the Greater Chronicle in which Bede examines the Roman Empire and contemporary Europe His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death and all three texts here are further illuminated by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Defence Speeches by Cicero (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'But I must stop now I can no longer speak for tears - and my client has ordered that tears are not to be used in his defence' Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world he dominated the Roman courts usually appearing for the defence His speeches are masterpieces of persuasion compellingly written emotionally powerful and somtimes hilariously funny This book presents five of his most famous defences of Roscius falsely accused of murdering his father; of the consul-elect Murena accused of electoral bribery; of the poet Archias on a citizenshiup charge; of Caelius ex-lover of Clodia Metelli on charges of violence; and of Milo for mudering Cicero's hated enemy Clodius Cicero's clients were rarely whiter-than-white; but so seductive is his oratory that the reader cannot help taking his side In these speeches we are plunged into some of the most exciting courtroom dramas of all time These new translations preserve Cicero's literary artistry and emotional force and achieve new standards of accuracy Each speech has its own introduction and a general introduction discusses Cicero's public career and the criminal courts The substantial explanatory notes guide the reader through the speeches and offer new scholarship presented in a clear way"
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| "Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "More than a century after the Norman Conquest England remains a colony of foreign warlords The dissolute Prince John plots to seize his brother's crown his barons terrorize the country and the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood haunts the ancient greenwood The secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight Ivanhoe heralds the start of a splendid and tumultuous romance featuring the tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche the siege of Torquilstone and the clash of wills between the wicked Templar Bois-Guilbert and the sublime Jewess Rebecca In Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819 The most famous of Scottish novelists drew on the conventions of Gothic fiction including its risky sexual and racial themes to explore the violent origins and limits of English nationality This edition uses the 1830 Magnum Opus text corrected against the Interleaved Set and incorporates readings from Scott's manuscript The introduction examines the originality and cultural importance of Ivanhoe and draws on current work by historians and cultural critics ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake Mazarin plots Louis XIV is in love and Raoul de Bragelonne son of Athos is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere D'Artagnan meanwhile is perplexed by a mysterious stranger and soon he learns that his old comrades already have great projects in hand Athos seeks the restoration of Charles II while Aramis with Porthos in tow has a secret plan involving a masked prisoner and the fortification of the island of Belle-Ile D'Artagnan finds a thread leading him to the French court the banks of the Tyne the beaches of Holland and the dunes of Brittany The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de la Valliere and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask This new edition of the classic translation is fully annotated and an introduction sets Dumas's saga in its historical and cultural context ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869 debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been Arnold seeks to find out 'what culture really is what good it can do what is our own special need of it' in an age of rapid social change and increasing mechanization He contrasts culture 'the study of perfection' with anarchy the mood of unrest and uncertainty that pervaded mid-Victorian England How can individuals be educated not indoctrinated and what is the role of the state in disseminating 'sweetness and light'? This edition reproduces the original book version and enables readers to appreciate its immediate historical context as well as the reasons for its continued importance today in the face of the challenges of multi-culturalism and post-modernism ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Mary and the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "'I have lately writtena tale to illustrate an opinion of mine that a genius will educate itself' Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men Expressed most forcefully in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) her forthright opinions also inform her two innovative novels Mary and The Wrongs of Woman a fictional sequel to the Vindication In both novels the heroines have to rely on their own resources to establish their independence and intellectual development Mary learns to take control of her destiny and become a social philanthropist while Maria in The Wrongs of Woman fights imprisonment and a loveless marriage to claim her rights Strongly autobiographical both novels powerfully complement Wollstonecraft's non-fictional writing inspired by the French Revolution and the social upheavals that followed ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Dialogues and Essays by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world Tutor to the young emperor Nero Seneca wrote exercises in practical philosophy that draw upon contemporary Roman life and illuminate the intellectual concerns of the day They also have much to say to the modern reader as Seneca ranges widely across subjects such as the shortness of life tranquillity of mind anger mercy happiness and grief at the loss of a loved one Seneca's accessible aphoristic style makes his writing especially attractive as an introduction to Stoic philosophy and belies its reputation for austerity and dogmatism This edition combines a clear and modern translation with an introduction to Seneca's life and philosophical interests and helpful notes ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity' Julian West a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siecle Boston plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000 America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state In little more than a hundred years the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten The squalid slums of Boston have been replaced by broad streets and technological inventions have transformed people's everyday lives Exiled from the past West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveller Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) is a thunderous indictment of industrial capitalism and a resplendent vision of life in a socialist utopia Matthew Beaumont's lively edition explores the political and psychological peculiarities of this celebrated utopian fiction ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society' Jean-Paul Sartre Maupassant's second novel Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siecle Paris It is a novel about money sex and power set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behaviour and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob by George Eliot (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "'She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that being her slave I should execute her will in all things' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859 A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain mesmerism phrenology and experiments in revification it is Eliot's anatomy of her own moral philsophy - the ideal of imaginative sympathy or the ability to see into others' minds and emotions Narrated by an egoccentric morbid young clairvoyant man whose fascination for Bertha Grant lies partly in her obliquity the story also explores fiction's ability to offer insight into the self as well as being a remarkable portrait of a misdeveloped artist whose visionary powers merely blight his life The Lifted Veil is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works Published as a companion piece to The Lifted Veil Brother Jacob is by contrast Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading Yet both stories reveal Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessary truths' independent of our perception of them and the boundaries of art and the self Helen Small's introduction casts new light on works which fully deserve to be read alongside Eliot's novels ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line' Originally published in 1903 The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race culture and education at the turn of the twentieth century With its singular combination of essays memoir and fiction this book vaulted W E B Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism The Souls of Black Folk is an impassioned at times searing account of the situation of African Americans in the United States Du Bois makes a forceful case for the access of African Americans to higher education memorably extols the achievements of black culture (above all the spirituals or 'sorrow songs') and advances the provocative and influential argument that due to the inequalities and pressures of the 'race problem' African American identity is characterized by 'double consciousness' This edition includes a valuable appendix of other writing by Du Bois which sheds light on his attitudes and intentions ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833) one of the the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie humaine The Grandet household oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles recently orphaned and penniless Eugenie's emotional awakening stimulated by her love for her cousin brings her into direct conflict with her father whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression the vicissitudes of the wine trade and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "&39;A man is so in the way in the house!&39;A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England Elizabeth Gaskell&39;s Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women Undaunted by poverty but dismayed by changes brought by the railway and by new commercial practices the ladies of Cranford respond to disruption with both suspicion and courage Miss Matty and her sister Deborah uphold standards and survive personal tragedy and everyday dramas; innovation may bring loss but it also brings growth and welcome freedoms Cranford suggests that representatives of different and apparently hostile social worlds their minds opened by sympathy and suffering can learn from each other Its social comedy develops into a study of generous reconciliation of a kind that will value the past as it actively shapes the future This edition includes two related short pieces by Gaskell &39;The Last Generation in England&39; and &39;The Cage at Cranford&39; as well as a selection from the diverse literary and social contexts in which the Cranford tales take their place ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&39;s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&39;s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "'He thought he could see in a flash the future of the Rougon-Macquart family a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood' Set in the fictitious Provencal town of Plassans The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvere and Miette two idealistic young supporters of the republican resistance to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'etat in December 1851 They join the woodcutters and peasants of the Var to seize control of Plassans opposed by the Bonapartist loyalists led by Silvere's uncle Pierre Rougon Meanwhile the foundations of the Rougon family and its illegitimate Macquart branch are being laid in the brutal beginnings of the Imperial regime 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 established through violence the 'fortune' of the Rougons is paid for in blood ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Dracula by Bram Stoker (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "&39;it was butcher workthe horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form and lips of bloody foam&39;Bram Stoker&39;s 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London the very heart of the British Empire Only a handful of men and women stand between Dracula and his long-cherished goal but they are vulnerable and weak against the cunning and supernatural powers of the Count and his legions As the horrifying story unfolds in the diaries and letters of young Jonathan Harker Lucy Mina and Dr Seward Dracula will be victorious unless his nemesis Professor Van Helsing can persuade them that monsters still lurk in the era of electric light The most famous of all vampire stories Dracula is a mirror of its age its underlying themes of race religion science superstition and sexuality never far from the surface A compelling read rattling along at break-neck speed it is a modern classic This new edition includes Stoker&39;s companion piece &39;Dracula&39;s Guest&39; ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&39;s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&39;s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "'I have become whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue' Orphaned and penniless at the age of twelve the beautiful and devout Justine embarks upon her remarkable odyssey Her steadfast faith and naive trust in trust in everyone she meets destine her from the outset for sexual exploitation and martyrdom The unending catalogue of disasters that befall her during which she is subject to any number of perverse practices illustrate Sade's belief in the primacy of Nature over civilization Virtue is no match for vice and as criminality and violence triumph Justine is doomed to suffer Sade's writings have become a byword for transgression and obscenity and the logical amorality of his philosophy still has the power to shock By overturning social religious and political norms he puts under scrutiny conventional ideas of justice power life and death Justine is a ferocious physical and intellectual assault on absolute notions of good and evil and as such one of the earliest literary manifestos for atheism ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "&39;Intellectual freedom depends on material things Poetry depends on intellectual freedom And women have always been poor&39;In these two classic essays of feminist literature Woolf argues passionately for women&39;s intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict In A Room of One&39;s Own she explores centuries of limitations placed on women as well as celebrating the creative achievements of the women writers who overcame these obstacles In this first history of women&39;s writing she describes the importance of education financial independence and equality of opportunity to creative freedom Three Guineas was written under the threat of fascism and impending war A radical articulation of Woolf&39;s pacifist politics it investigates the causes of gender inequalities and the ways in which women&39;s historic outsider position make them crucial in the prevention of war Both these works started life as talks to groups of young women and their engaging wit and informality establish Woolf as one of the twentieth-century&39;s greatest essayists Their arguments continue to reverberate in feminist discourse to this day ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&39;s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&39;s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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| "The Waves by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "'I who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental daring and challenging The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's greatest achievement It follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age as they experience the world around them and explore who they are and what it means to be alive As the contours of their lives are revealed a unique novel is slowly unveiled Enfolded within Woolf's lyrical and mysterious language the mundane takes on a startling new significance while distant pasts are no less in play than the clamorous sounds and kaleidoscopic sights of the modern city Yet precisely where the alluringly enigmatic pages of The Waves are leading and what deeper meanings are held within its undulant chapters and shimmering interludes are questions that have never ceased to enthral readers and critics alike In this new edition David Bradshaw considers the spellbinding oddness and originality of The Waves helping the reader to negotiate a way though this most poetic and haunting of novels ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study and much more"
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