Published in 1904, and drawing on London's own experience on board a sealing ship, The Sea-Wolf describes the struggle between the civilized and the pagan, between the values of the ruthless sea-capta ... Read more
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Jocelin of Brakelond; Diana E. Greenway; Jane E. Sayers
Pages
192 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
130 x 198 mm
Pub date
Oct 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brill ... Read more
The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin - did not allow me to hesitate for a moment'
So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale o ... Read more
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Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range f ... Read more
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McTeague (1899) chronicles the demise of a San Francisco couple at the end of the nineteenth century. Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, it tells the sto ... Read more
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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and ... Read more
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These stories are translated with an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the g ... Read more
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Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin reforming a dissipated America. Howeve ... Read more
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Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the 'masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is 'the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most ... Read more
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Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield; David Roberts
Pages
480 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Sep 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.'
So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences ... Read more
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