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Discourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract Oxford World´s ClassicsDiscourse on Political Economy and the Social Contract Oxford World´s Classics
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- J. J. Rousseau
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau's concepts of...
Leaves of Grass Oxford World´s ClassicsLeaves of Grass Oxford World´s Classics
- W. Whitman
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 512
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of...
Typhoon and Other Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsTyphoon and Other Tales Oxford World´s Classics
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- Joseph Conrad
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 304
- 2008
This volume contains "Typhoon," "The Secret Sharer," "Falk," and "Amy Foster." "Typhoon", a story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest, is a masterpiece of...
The Major Works Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Major Works Oxford World´s Classics
- J. Milton
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 1008
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique...
The Crimes of Love: Heroic and Tragic Tales, Preceded by an Essay on Novels Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Crimes of Love: Heroic and Tragic Tales, Preceded by an Essay on Novels Oxford World´s Classics
- M. de Sade
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 388
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love...
Confessions Oxford World´s ClassicsConfessions Oxford World´s Classics
- J. J. Rousseau
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 720
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in...
Greek Lives Oxford World´s ClassicsGreek Lives Oxford World´s Classics
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- Plutarch
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 528
- 2008
Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like...
The Nature of the Gods Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Nature of the Gods Oxford World´s Classics
- Cicero
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 288
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'My present intention is to clear myself of any suspicion of partiality by presenting the views of the generality of philosophers concerning the nature of the gods.' Cicero's...
Anselm of Canterbury: the Major Works Oxford World´s ClassicsAnselm of Canterbury: the Major Works Oxford World´s Classics
- St. Anselm
- Oxford University Press
- 544
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does...
The Republic and the Laws Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Republic and the Laws Oxford World´s Classics
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Oxford University Press
- 288
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
'However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The...
The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius Oxford World´s Classics
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- Iulius Gaius Caesar
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 320
- 2008
The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of...
Selected Philosophical Writings Oxford World´s ClassicsSelected Philosophical Writings Oxford World´s Classics
- T. Aquinat
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 496
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to...
Physics Oxford World´s ClassicsPhysics Oxford World´s Classics
- Aristotle
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 384
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
For many centuries, Aristotles Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Now, in the first translation into English since...
Gorgias Oxford World´s ClassicsGorgias Oxford World´s Classics
- Plato
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 216
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to...
La Dame Aux Camelias Oxford World´s ClassicsLa Dame Aux Camelias Oxford World´s Classics
- A. Dumas, D. Coward
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 256
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love is based on his own love...
First Love and Other Stories Oxford World´s ClassicsFirst Love and Other Stories Oxford World´s Classics
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- I. Turgenev
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 304
- 2008
This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known 'long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as...
The Decameron Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Decameron Oxford World´s Classics
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- Giovanni Boccaccio
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 752
- 2008
The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florences confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country...
The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales Oxford World´s Classics
- Marquis de Sade
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic...
Essay on Principle of Population Oxford World´s ClassicsEssay on Principle of Population Oxford World´s Classics
- T. Malthus
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 208
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus remains a byword for concern...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales Oxford World´s Classics
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- Edgar Allan Poe
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2008
Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of...
Devils Oxford World´s ClassicsDevils Oxford World´s Classics
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 800
- 2008
Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political...
Memoirs from the House of the Dead Oxford World´s ClassicsMemoirs from the House of the Dead Oxford World´s Classics
- F. Dostoyevsky
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 400
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and...
Four Revenge Tragedies: Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger´s Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D´Ambois, and The Atheist´s Tragedy Oxford World´s ClassicsFour Revenge Tragedies: Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger´s Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D´Ambois, and The Atheist´s Tragedy Oxford World´s Classics
- K. E. Maus
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 464
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy helped to establish the popularity of the...
The Golden Ass Oxford World´s ClassicsThe Golden Ass Oxford World´s Classics
- Apuleius
- beletria
- Oxford University Press
- 336
- 2008
- Oxford University Press
Apuleiuss Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity. It tells the story of...