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.
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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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The first of Chekhov's works to be published in a serious literary journal, 'The Steppe', with its masterly account of a spectacular thunderstorm, signifies his maturation as a writer of short stories ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Franklin Philip; Patrick Coleman
Pages
176 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 195 mm
Pub date
Apr 2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unpa ... Read more
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Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciting period of theatrical activity in the history of ... Read more
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First published in the turbulent decade following the French Revolution, Memoirs of Emma Courtney is based on Mary Hays' own passionate struggle with romance and Enlightenment philosophy. A feminist a ... Read more
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