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A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Default | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you ca'n't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here.' The 'Alice' books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, ...Show more
Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra by Sophocles
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, So ...Show more
As You Like it: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics
As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines S ...Show more
Dracula (OWC) by Bram Stoker
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'it was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam' Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world, an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London, the very heart of the British Empire. Only ...Show more
Four Major Plays: Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Default | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.
King Lear: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else - detaile ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to fe ...Show more
Richard II : The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from the early texts - wide-ranging introduction di ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version
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Category: Philosophy and 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 Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Brian Cummings
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Category: Default | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'In the midst of life we are in death' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also hi ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
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Category: Default | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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. Perrault's tales were enjoyed in the salons of L ...Show more