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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This Norton Critical Edition includes: · The first London edition (1759) of Sterne's revolutionary and influential novel. · Textual notes, explanatory footnotes, and a preface by Judith Hawley. · Three illustrations. · The Author on the Novel, fourteen judiciously chosen letters from the latest scholarl ...Show more
The Lives of the Poets : A Selection by Samuel Johnson (ed Roger Lonsdale)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as w ...Show more
The Masnavi Book One by Jalal al-Din Rumi; Jawid Mojaddedi (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written, and has been called the Koran in Persian. The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi composed his work for the benefit of his disciples in the Sufi order named after him, better known as the whirling dervishes. In order to convey ...Show more
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'But it's bad - it's bad,' Mr Tulliver added - 'a woman's no business wi' being so clever; it'll turn to trouble, I doubt.' Rebellious and affectionate, Maggie Tulliver is always in trouble. Recalling her own experiences as a girl, George Eliot describes Maggie's turbulent childhood with a sympathetic e ...Show more
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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Category: Natural History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the true classics of nature writing, Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne has charmed readers and inspired naturalists for more than two centuries. In a series of letters to two friends--Thomas Pennant, a zoologist, and Daines Barrington, a prominent barrister--White shares his close o ...Show more
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Greek Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up ...Show more
The Qur'an by HALEEM TRANS
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Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare; Stephen Orgel (Editor)
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which William Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by Martin Butler. 'How many good ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw & Other Stories by Henry James
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eer ...Show more
'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays by John Ford; Marion Lomax (Editor)
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Category: Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This edition contains: The Lover's Melancholy; The Broken Heart; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Perkin Warbeck Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection of four plays also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertainin ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf; Margaret Drabble (Editor)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Just before World War I, the Ramsay family make a trip to their holiday home in the Hebrides, bringing several guests with them. While they are there, one of the children wants to visit a lighthouse. After a ten-year gap, during which the war wreaks havoc on Europe, one of the guests returns to the hous ...Show more
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful edition of the groundbreaking classic novel, with a new introduction by award-winning writer Susan Choi The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose. Though the novel turns on the death of its centr ...Show more