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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
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
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 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
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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Category: Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!' There is no other novel quite like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. George Orwell called it 'a wonder ...Show more
The Sin of Abbe Mouret by Emile Zola; Valerie Pearson Minogue (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path." Serge Mouret, is an obsessively devout priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. A serious illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse Al ...Show more
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