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Serie: Oxford world's classics
PaperbackEngels9780192894441
12-9-2024
'I spring from the pages into your arms'
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the last two hundred years. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192894458
10-10-2024
'If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.'
The Well of Loneliness is among the most famous banned books in history. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192896827
10-11-2022
'(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths'
- Bertrand Russell
This selection of four tales by Conrad is about radical insecurity: lone human beings involuntarily forced into confrontation with a terrifying universe in which they can never be wholly at home. Meer
paperbackEngels496 blz.9780199537006
18-6-2025
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 owner, John Thornton. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192805355
10-2-2011
'Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent'
So the title page of this extraordinary novel describes the career of the woman known as Moll Flanders, whose real name we never discover. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192823458
15-4-2010
'the glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal'
The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192832825
8-1-2009
Aeschylus is the first of the great Greek playwrights, and the four plays in this volume demonstrate the remarkable range of Greek tragedy. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contemporary history, the Greeks' extraordinary victory over Persia in 480 BC. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192839251
9-10-2008
'As if someone were to hold up a lamp in the dark so that those with eyes could see - in exactly the same way Gotama has made the truth clear in various ways. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192801524
11-6-2009
'You will be made an outlaw, forced always to live in the wilds and to live alone.'
A sweeping epic of the Viking Age, Grettir's Saga follows the life of the outlaw Grettir the Strong as he battles against sorcery, bad luck, and the vengefulness of his enemies. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192872661
13-2-2025
'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war'
Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192873576
11-4-2024
'Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King's English.'
The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play named entirely after female characters and his only comedy set in England. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780199674893
12-9-2013
'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780199588213
24-5-2018
'. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . '
What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). Meer
PaperbackEngels9780199686636
3-3-2016
'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.'
With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frédéric Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his passion into decisive action. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780199682324
9-1-2014
'The Poetic Genius of my Country. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780199686643
12-2-2015
'Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!'
The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780198856085
14-9-2023
'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.'
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains some of the best examples of his talent as a writer of short fiction. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780199549672
10-7-2008
In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of her brother William, except that she had none of his chances. Meer