A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.'
When Machiavelli's brief tr ... Read more
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Herodotus is not only known as the 'father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also ... Read more
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Gustave Flaubert; Mark Overstall; Margaret Mauldon
Pages
368 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 195 mm
Pub date
Apr 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!'
When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will ... Read more
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Described variously as the greatest poem of the European Middle Ages and, because of the author's evangelical purpose, the 'fifth Gospel', the Divine Comedy is central to the culture of the west. The ... Read more
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The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'.
Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapp ... Read more
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If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?'
Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best o ... Read more
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'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.'
Sharpe's London Magazine (June 1855)
Jane Eyre ... Read more
The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian lov ... Read more
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One of Austen's five major novels in a revised and updated edition.
The standard Chapman/Kinsley text in a newly set typeface gives a more attractive appearance.
The new notes are fuller and pr ... Read more
Austen's most popular novel in an entirely new edition.
Uses the standard Chapman/Kinsley text.
New introduction discusses the play between truth and fiction, the historical context of the nove ... Read more
