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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Kids Classics | 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
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand. At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral ...Show more
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin; James E. Falen (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Excerpt from Eugene Oneguine: A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Eugene oneguine, the chief poetical work of Russia's greatest poet, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe except our own, I hope that this version may prove an acceptable contri bution to literature. Tastes ...Show more
Evolutionary Writings: Including the Autobiographies by Charles Darwin
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Category: New Age | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin' On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Classics | 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
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels; David McLellan (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make Engels's ...Show more
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life'. In so doing he produced a landmark study of affluen ...Show more
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