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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
- 624
- 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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- Katherine 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
- beletria
- 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...
Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives Oxford World´s ClassicsRoman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives Oxford World´s Classics
- Plutarch
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 608
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so...
A Sicilian Romance - Oxford World´s ClassicsA Sicilian Romance - Oxford World´s Classics
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- ,
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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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- Ann Radcliffe
- beletria
- 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...
The Aeneid Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Aeneid Oxford World´s Classics
- Virgil
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 480
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The supreme Roman epic and the greatest poem in Latin, the Aeneid has inspired many of the great European poets including Dante and Milton. The Trojan hero Aeneas, after...
The Major Works: Including Poems, Plays, and Critical Prose Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Major Works: Including Poems, Plays, and Critical Prose Oxford World´s Classics
- W. B. Yeats
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 608
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination 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,...
He Knew He Was Right Oxford World´s ClassicsHe Knew He Was Right Oxford World´s Classics
- A. Trollope, J. Sutherland
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 992
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Widely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels,He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast against a background of agitation...
The Warden Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Warden Oxford World´s Classics
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- Anthony 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
- beletria
- 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...
Oresteia Oxford World´s ClassicsOresteia Oxford World´s Classics
- Aeschylus
- Oxford University Press
- 320
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Agamemnon *Libation Bearers *Eumenides Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only trilogy to survive from Greek tragedy, and the religious and moral ideas it enacts afterwards influenced...
The Confessions Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Confessions Oxford World´s Classics
- Saint Augustine
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 352
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is...
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens: AND Peter and Wendy Oxford World´s ClassicsPeter Pan in Kensington Gardens: AND Peter and Wendy Oxford World´s Classics
- Barrie, J. M.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 288
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie...
Don Quixote De La Mancha Oxford World´s ClassicsDon Quixote De La Mancha Oxford World´s Classics
- Cervantes, M.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 1120
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Don Quixote, originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, stands as Cervantes belated but colossal literary success. A work which has achieved mythic status, it is...
Medea and Other Plays Oxford World´s ClassicsMedea and Other Plays Oxford World´s Classics
- Euripides
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
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...
In a Glass Darkly Oxford World´s ClassicsIn a Glass Darkly Oxford World´s Classics
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- J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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- 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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- Henry David Thoreau
- beletria
- 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...
House of Mirth Oxford World´s ClassicsHouse of Mirth Oxford World´s Classics
- E. Wharton
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 368
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. A lucid, disturbing analysis of...
The Bhagavad Gita Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Bhagavad Gita Oxford World´s Classics
- Johnson, W. J.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 128
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The Bhagavad Gita is the most widely read Hindu religious text in the Western world and a key work for understanding Indian religions and the way Hinduism has been represented...
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...
Man and Wife Oxford World´s ClassicsMan and Wife Oxford World´s Classics
- Collins Wilkie
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 688
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Man and Wife (1870) combines the fast pace and sensational plot structure of Collinss most famous novels with a biting attack on the inequitable marriage laws in Victorian...
Barnaby Rudge Oxford World´s ClassicBarnaby Rudge Oxford World´s Classic
- Dickens, Ch.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 752
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'What dark history is this?' This is the question that hangs over Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the...