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A Love Story by Émile Zola; Helen Constantine (Translator); Brian Nelson (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it were the only air they could breathe.'Hélène Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
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 enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable fo ...Show more
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Usually classified as a "problem comedy," All's Well that Ends Well is a psychologically disturbing presentation of an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband wooed by trickery. In her introduction Susan Snyder makes the play's clashing ideologies of class and gender newly accessible, and of ...Show more
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
Money by Émile Zola; Valerie Minogue
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugene Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hameli ...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
Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille) by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the glob ...Show more
The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand pro ...Show more
The Conquest of Plassans by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Francois Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with Francois, his wife Marthe, and their three children, and Marthe quickly fall ...Show more
The Dream by Émile Zola; Paul Gibbard (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Dream by Émile Zola, 1888.Émile Zola (1840 - 1902) was a Frenchnovelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of theliterary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to thedevelopment of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in thepolitical liberalization of France an ...Show more
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby?s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he?s a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy dur ...Show more