Four Comedies

Plautus

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's the Miser are two subsequent classi... Lees meer

The Crimes of Love

Marquis de Sade, David Coward

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• Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel... Lees meer

The Trial

Franz Kafka, Mike Mitchell

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• One of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a ... Lees meer

A Mad World, My Masters/Michaelmas Term/A Trick to Catch the Old One/No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's

Thomas Middleton

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• Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exciti... Lees meer

La Dame Aux Camélias

Alexandre Dumas, David Coward

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• One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love ... Lees meer

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra

Sophocles, H D F Kitto

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• This volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as t... Lees meer

He Knew He Was Right

Anthony Trollope

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• 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 agains... Lees meer

Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

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• While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, The Wealth of Nations actually shows that Ad... Lees meer

Persuasion

Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch

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• Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can... Lees meer

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius, P G Walsh

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• Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Got... Lees meer

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Thomas Hardy

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• Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blu... Lees meer

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

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• This edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introductio... Lees meer

Myths from Mesopotamia

Dalley

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• The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally wri... Lees meer

La Bête Humaine

Émile Zola, Roger Pearson

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• La Bête humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of ... Lees meer

Catiline's Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories

Sallust, William W Batstone

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• Sallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and political de... Lees meer

Utopia

Thomas More, Joanne Paul

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• 'To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and hard thing.' Thomas More's Utopia presents an account of an idealis... Lees meer

Leucippe and Clitophon

Achilles Tatius, Tim Whitmarsh

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• Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqué of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive ... Lees meer

The Iliad

Homer

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• Much more than a series of battle scenes, the Iliad is a work of extraordinary pathos and profundity that concerns itself with issues as fundamental a... Lees meer

Much ADO about Nothing

William Shakespeare

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• Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically succe... Lees meer

Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

Jerome K Jerome

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• This volume stands as the only available critical edition of two of the most popular classics in English literature. Three Men in a Boat describes a c... Lees meer

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

George Orwell

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• "Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather... Lees meer

The Dhammapada

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• The Dhammapada , the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world's great religious lite... Lees meer

The Odyssey

Homer, Walter Shewring

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• This prose translation of the The Odyssey is so successful that is has taken its place as on the few really outstanding version of Homer's famous epic... Lees meer

So You Think You Know Jane Austen?

John Sutherland, Deirdre Le Faye

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• How well do you really know your favorite author? In this new book, ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre L... Lees meer