Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the ... Read more
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An unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain to settle in America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the Victorian period. Utilizing new digital resources and methodologies alongside more ... Read more
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Introduction argues that Burmese Days is more than just a harsh portrayal of colonial society, making the case that his writing here holds it up, rather, as among the best productions of ... Read more
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For thirty years, the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society has met weekly in the medieval colleges of the University of Oxford. During that time, it has hosted as speakers nearly all those still living who were ... Read more
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Introduces the reader to the vast variety of C. S. Lewis' published work, including his books and many essays, as well as poems, letters, and sermons
Draws out connections between Lewis's life an ... Read more
He appears to be persecutor and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?'
Caleb is a guileless young servant who enters the employment of Ferdinando Falkland, ... Read more
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
She loved him much, and admired him even more than she loved him...Would that he had some faults!'
Alice Vavasor is torn between a risky marriage with her ambitious cousin George and the safer pro ... Read more
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This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition. *ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has ... Read more
During the 1790s, with Ireland in political crisis, Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice: in Castle Rackrent, her first novel, she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the decli ... Read more
