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The Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night´s Dream Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Oxford Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night´s Dream Oxford World´s Classics
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- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 288
- 2008
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...
The Qur´an Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Qur´an Oxford World´s Classics
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- M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 502
- 2008
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere´s Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere´s Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest Oxford World´s Classics
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- O. Wilde
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he...
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsHeart of Darkness and Other Tales Oxford World´s Classics
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- Jeff Conrad
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his...
As You Like It Oxford World´s ClassicsAs You Like It Oxford World´s Classics
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- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
With its witty heroine Rosalind, who has the longest role of Shakespeare's female characters, As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted and most performed comedy. This...
Kim Oxford World´s ClassicsKim Oxford World´s Classics
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- R. Kipling, A. Sandison
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- Oxford University Press
- 352
- 2008
Kim, one of Kiplings masterpieces, is the story of Kimball OHara, the orphaned son of an officer in the Irish Regiment who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. The...
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Oxford World´s ClassicsLes Liaisons Dangereuses Oxford World´s Classics
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- Choderlos De Laclos
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 448
- 2008
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its...
To the Lighthouse Oxford World´s ClassicsTo the Lighthouse Oxford World´s Classics
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- Virginia Woolf
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 195
- 2008
'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the...
The Professor Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Professor Oxford World´s Classics
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- Charlotte Bronte
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 304
- 2008
The hero of Charlotte Bront�s first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the...
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard Oxford World´s ClassicsFive Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard Oxford World´s Classics
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- A. Chekhov
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2008
Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this...
Far from the Madding Crowd Oxford World´s ClassicsFar from the Madding Crowd Oxford World´s Classics
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- Thomas Hardy
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 496
- 2008
Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and the...
The Koran Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Koran Oxford World´s Classics
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- A. J. Arberry
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 688
- 2008
The Koran is a book apart, not only as Holy Scripture for Muslims, but as the supreme classic of Arabic literature. In its 114 Suras, or chapters, it comprises the total of...
Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript Oxford World´s ClassicsLe Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript Oxford World´s Classics
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- Thomas Malory
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 616
- 2008
The greatest English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte DArthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, knight prisoner. This edition is the first designed...
Selected Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsSelected Stories Oxford World´s Classics
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- K. Mansfield
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 448
- 2008
'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D....
Metamorphoses Oxford World´s ClassicsMetamorphoses Oxford World´s Classics
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- Ovid
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- Oxford University Press
- 528
- 2008
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and...
A Sicilian Romance - Oxford World´s ClassicsA Sicilian Romance - Oxford World´s Classics
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- Ann Radcliffe
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- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the...
The Mysteries of Udolpho Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Mysteries of Udolpho Oxford World´s Classics
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- A. Radcliffe
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- Oxford University Press
- 736
- 2008
A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other purveyors of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of...
Lives of the Caesars Oxford World´s ClassicsLives of the Caesars Oxford World´s Classics
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- Suetonius
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 448
- 2008
The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius,...
The Interpretation of Dreams Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Interpretation of Dreams Oxford World´s Classics
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- Sigmund Freud
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- Oxford University Press
- 512
- 2008
This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899. It restores Freud's original...
The Warden Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Warden Oxford World´s Classics
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- A. Trollope
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The book centers on the character of Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. Young John...
The Scarlet Letter Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Scarlet Letter Oxford World´s Classics
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me. With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester...
In a Glass Darkly Oxford World´s ClassicsIn a Glass Darkly Oxford World´s Classics
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- J. S. Le Fanu
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
'the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century...
Walden Oxford World´s ClassicsWalden Oxford World´s Classics
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- H. D. Thoreau
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- Oxford University Press
- 448
- 2008
Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and...
Pilgrim´s Progress Oxford World´s ClassicsPilgrim´s Progress Oxford World´s Classics
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- John Bunyan
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
The Pilgrims Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. It is one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature and is a classic of the heroic...