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Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian
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Category: Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, from Egypt to Uzbekistan, and died in Ba ...Show more
Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs. Yet the degree and nature of its success remain surprisingly contentious, and performances of the play have seldom ...Show more
Antigone / Oedipus the King / Electra by Sophocles
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, So ...Show more
Candide and other stories by VOLTAIRE
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr P ...Show more
Defence Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'But I must stop now. I can no longer speak for tears - and my client has ordered that tears are not to be used in his defence.'Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world: he dominated the Roman courts, usually appearing for the defence. His speeches are masterpieces of persuasion: ...Show more
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus,: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part ...Show more
Four Major Plays by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.
Greenmantle by Kate (EDT) John; MacDonald Buchan
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
"Greenmantle" is a spy novel written by John Buchan and published in 1916. Set during World War One, "Greenmantle" is the second of the 5-book series of the Richard Hannay novels which immediately follow "The thirty-nine steps", set a few months before the beginning of the war. In "Greenmantle", Richard ...Show more
Henry V Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; Gary Taylor (Editor)
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Category: Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
First staged in 1599, Shakespeare's history of Henry V's remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Wri ...Show more
JOHN BARLEYCORN by JACK LONDON JOHN SUTHERLAND
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the b ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"The Bront s' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Bront 's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel it ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to ana ...Show more