Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...'
The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familia ... Read more
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Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The ... Read more
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A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.'
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is ba ... Read more
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Niccolo Machiavelli; Julia Conaway Bondanella; Peter E. Bondanella
Pages
448 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
128 x 196 mm
Pub date
Dec 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Discourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Co ... Read more
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Peer Gynt was Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, and the poetry is brilliantly appropriate to the imaginative swings between Scandinavian oral folk traditions, the Mor ... Read more
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every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk th ... Read more
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A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has mad ... Read more
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Human nature may be easy to see through, but it is very hard to understand.'
The ageing Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank. She ... Read more
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Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals. As soon as I saw, I was done for...All my dreams were of Leucippe.'
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clito ... Read more
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This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the ... Read more
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