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Serie: Oxford world's classics
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
PaperbackEngels9780192893451
14-6-2023
'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling. Meer
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
PaperbackEngels9780192868749
12-9-2024
'He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read inhimself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind.'
Thomas Hobbes's Leviathanis not just one of the greatest philosophicaltexts in the English language; it is one of the most important works in thehistory of Western political thought. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192869609
14-5-2026
'In short, I write just what I think.'
After a successful career in the service of an aristocratic family, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780) established a successful grocery business in Westminster and had eight children, four of whom survived to adulthood. 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
PaperbackEngels9780192874283
11-9-2025
'Until effaced no one can actually
Enter the Court of Holy Majesty.
What is the meaning of the heavenly ascension?
Non-being: the mystics' law school and religion. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192882868
13-2-2025
'I see a man's life is a tedious one.'
Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192883049
10-4-2025
'I am in a strange state of mind. I am alone—quite alone—in the world—the blight of misfortune has passed over me and withered me; I know that I am about to die and I feel happy—joyous—'
The eponymous heroine of Mathilda narrates a tale of incestuous love from her deathbed. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192824110
11-4-2013
'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.'
Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their origins, and a delightful retelling of myths and legends associated with particular dates. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192866349
12-9-2024
Art for art's sake is a vile catchword, but I confess it appeals to me'
Gentleman by day and thief by night, A. J. Raffles lives a double life. Taking 'Art for art's sake' as his motto, Raffles supports his debonair lifestyle by performing lucrative, artistic, and ingenious burglaries of the wealthy elite of Victorian London. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192866363
11-4-2024
'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'
This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192871268
11-1-2024
'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192872685
9-4-2026
'He must leave to live that we may love'
Arden of Faversham is based on the murder of Thomas Arden in Faversham in 1551 by his wife, Alice. The play depicts Alice Arden's increasingly desperate attempts to kill her husband so as to be with her lover, Mosby. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192883056
13-11-2025
"I've lived in so many countries, yet when anything comes to me, it's nearly always Africa—Africa that sets it."
Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man or Perhaps Only—, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of two white women born into the racist, society of mid-nineteenth-century South Africa. 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
PaperbackEngels9780192806109
10-7-2008
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.
Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780192806352
17-4-2008
'Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That's most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian?'
Two Persian travellers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness the hedonism and financial crash of the Regency. Meer