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Hester by Margaret Oliphant; Philip Davis (Editor); Brian Nellist (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Hester tells the story of the aging but powerful Catherine Vernon, and her conflict with the young and determined Hester, whose growing attachment to Edward, Catherine's favorite, spells disaster for all concerned. Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the ...Show more
Letters Concerning the English Nation by Voltaire
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have place the Letters among the grea ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.' Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman - 'as unflinching as a hero in a book' - who is disgra ...Show more
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything' After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the political and social world has subtly changed, parties and policies no longer fixed and advancement dependent u ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version by God
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. ...Show more
The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his passion for his enemy's beautiful daughter Lucy. Fi ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Perrault
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!' Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day. Pe ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Wilde did not converse - he told tales.' Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admirers, George Orwell and W. B. Yeats among them. The stories give free rein to Wilde's origi ...Show more
The Dawn of the Roman Empire: Books 31-40 by Livy .
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Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition. (Livy, 33. 33) Thus Livy describes the reaction to the Roman commander T.Q. Flamininus ...Show more
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything.' The Duke of Omnium is overwhelmed by the death of his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora. Once the British Prime Minister, he is now in sole charge of his three wilful children. Lord Gerald has been sent down from University; Lord Silverbridge ha ...Show more
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassm ...Show more
The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Quee ...Show more