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The Flowers of Evil with parallel french text by Charles Baudelaire
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant te ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare - Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare; Arthur L. Humphreys (Editor)
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The most famous of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Julius Caesar was written and first performed in 1599, and was apparently one the plays his contemporaries enjoyed most. Recounting the death of Caesar on the steps of the Senate house, the play offers some of Shakespeare's finest scenes: Antony's skillf ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (or What You Will) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled either by disguises or their own natures, it combines lyrical melancholy with broad comedy. The introducti ...Show more
The Tempest (Oxford World Classics) The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623, and is now generally seen ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's greatest achievement. It follows a s ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf; David Bradshaw (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMAN The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf construct ...Show more
Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Theatre | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music. In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to changes with ...Show more
Trojan Women and Other Plays by Byron Gallery Staff; Eurípides; Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Default | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Ball ...Show more