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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre Oxford World´s Classics
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- John Polidori
- Oxford University Press
- 320
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
John Polidoris classic tale The Vampyre(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen...
The Rainbow Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Rainbow Oxford World´s Classics
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- D. H. Lawrence
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 544
- 2008
To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity This is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from...
Ward Number Six and Other Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsWard Number Six and Other Stories Oxford World´s Classics
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- Pavlovič Anton Čechov
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories...
Robinson Crusoe Oxford World´s ClassicsRobinson Crusoe Oxford World´s Classics
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- Daniel Defoe
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
Klassiker kommen nicht aus der Mode. Sie lassen sich immer wieder neu entdecken - besonders, wenn sie so ansprechend gestaltet sind wie dieser Band. Eine ausführliche...
The Russian Master and Other Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Russian Master and Other Stories Oxford World´s Classics
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- Anton Chekhov
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
Concentrating on the themes of the loss of ideals and the poverty of actual experience, this collection of Chekhov stories--taken from The Oxford Chekhov--includes "His Wife,"...
Autobiography and Other Writings Oxford World´s ClassicsAutobiography and Other Writings Oxford World´s Classics
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- Benjamin Franklin
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
Franklins writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century,...
Twilight of the Idols Oxford World´s ClassicsTwilight of the Idols Oxford World´s Classics
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Oxford University Press
- 176
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsches own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a short introduction to the whole of his philosophy, and the most synoptic of...
Mark on Wall & Other Short Fiction Oxford World´s ClassicsMark on Wall & Other Short Fiction Oxford World´s Classics
- V. Woolf
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 160
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'I shall never forget the day I wrote "The Mark on the Wall" - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. "The Unwritten Novel" was the great...
The Nun Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Nun Oxford World´s Classics
- D. Diderot
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 234
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Diderots The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness,...
Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh Oxford World´s ClassicsBeowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh Oxford World´s Classics
- H. O´Donoghue
- Oxford University Press
- 176
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in a dark world of feuds, violence, and uncertainty. Set in the...
Elective Affinities Oxford World´s ClassicsElective Affinities Oxford World´s Classics
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite...
Birds and Other Plays Oxford World´s ClassicsBirds and Other Plays Oxford World´s Classics
- Aristophanes
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian...
Life, Letters and Poetry Oxford World´s ClassicsLife, Letters and Poetry Oxford World´s Classics
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- Michelangelo
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 208
- 2008
Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator...
Washington Square Oxford World´s ClassicsWashington Square Oxford World´s Classics
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- Henry James
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 224
- 2008
One of the most instantly appealing of Jamess early masterpieces, Washington Square is a tale of a trapped daughter and domineering father, a quiet tragedy of money and love and...
Nicholas Nickleby Oxford World´s ClassicsNicholas Nickleby Oxford World´s Classics
- Dickens, Ch.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 926
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic...
Barchester Towers Oxford World´s ClassicsBarchester Towers Oxford World´s Classics
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- Anthony Trollope
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 388
- 2008
Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral...
Pensees and Other Writings Oxford World´s ClassicsPensees and Other Writings Oxford World´s Classics
- Blaise Pascal
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 320
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes...
Vicar of Wakefield Oxford World´s ClassicsVicar of Wakefield Oxford World´s Classics
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- Oliver Goldsmith
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
Oliver Goldsmiths hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall...
Ethan Frome Oxford World´s ClassicsEthan Frome Oxford World´s Classics
- Edith Wharton
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 160
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
`It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.''...
Heart of Midlothian Oxford World´s ClassicsHeart of Midlothian Oxford World´s Classics
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- Walter Scott
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 624
- 2008
This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scotts finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John...
Tale of a Tub and Other Works Oxford World´s ClassicsTale of a Tub and Other Works Oxford World´s Classics
- J. Swift
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 272
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
This volume includes The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, both which accompanied A Tale of a Tub on its first publication in 1704. About the...
Armadale Oxford World´s ClassicsArmadale Oxford World´s Classics
- Collins, W.
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 880
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional melodrama also considers the modern theme of the role of women...
Two Noble Kinsmen Oxford World´s ClassicsTwo Noble Kinsmen Oxford World´s Classics
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- William Shakespeare
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen was written at the end of Shakespeare's career, as a collaboration with the rising young dramatist John Fletcher....
Roxana Oxford World´s ClassicsRoxana Oxford World´s Classics
- D. Defoe
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator...