With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlan ... Read more
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Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeac ... Read more
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Leo Tolstoy; Richard F. Gustafson; Louise Shanks Maude; Aylmer Maude; J. D. Duff
Pages
512 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
130 x 196 mm
Pub date
Aug 2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt in falling in love. I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice my ... Read more
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This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Nec ... Read more
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The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playw ... Read more
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Leo Tolstoy; Louise Shanks Maude; Richard F. Gustafson
Pages
528 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
128 x 196 mm
Pub date
May 2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a priso ... Read more
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The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other Indian work has had a greater influence on w ... Read more
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First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, ... Read more
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Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?'
Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic developmen ... Read more
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It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland, provided himself with a ... Read more
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