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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition by H.W. Fowler
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Category: Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize ...' No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes to the English language in Britain than Henry Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It rapidly became the standard w ...Show more
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition by H.W. Fowler
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Category: Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics
No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes to the English language in Britain than Henry Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It rapidly became the standard work of reference for the correct use of English in terms of choice of words, grammar, and style. Much loved for his firm ...Show more
About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achie ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand. At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral ...Show more
Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud; Martin Sorrell (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert CamusRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 an ...Show more
Debacle by Emile Zola
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, "La Debacle" (1892) takes as its subject the events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-71. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep and attention to detail.
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Writt ...Show more
Gerald Manly Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This text brings together all Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry and a selection of his prose writings to give the essence of his work and thinking. During his short life Hopkins strove to reconcile his religious and artistic vocations, and this edition demonstrates the range of his interests.
He Knew He Was Right by TROLLOPE Anthony
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Widely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels,He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast against a background of agitation for women's rights.
Kamasutra by Sudhir Kakar
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
"The Kamasutra" is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living - about finding a partner, marriage, adultery, using drugs - and also about the positions in sexual intercourse. The text is presented here in clear, vivid, frank English, with three commentaries.
Lord Chesterfield's Letters by Lord Chesterfield; David Roberts (Editor)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.'So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, p ...Show more
Politics by R. F. Ernest; Stalley Aristotle; Barker
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate