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Catherine Sloper lives in Washington Square with her widowed father, a wealthy physician. She is plain, shy, and lacks social graces and conversation. Dr. Sloper cannot conceal his disappointment that she has nothing of her dead mother`s beauty and...

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats`s poetry and...

Abridged from the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of religion available in paperback. Written by an expert team of contributors, the volume contains over 8,000 entries,...

Thus begins the stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles that has gripped listeners and readers for 2,700 years. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions...

The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling`s philosophy of life is...

This is the only selection of Plato`s myths currently available. It brings together ten of the most celebrated Platonic myths from Plato`s dialogues to make a perfect introduction to Plato`s philosophy for new...

Sent to Paris by a wealthy matron to retrieve her son, Strether becomes sidetracked by intriguing...

Nietzsche`s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism, the questionable virtues of science and scholars, liberal...

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the...

It`s hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it`s true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written,...

In both Joseph Andrews and Shamela Henry Fielding demonstrates his concern for the corruption of contemporary society, politics, religion, morality, and taste. This text includes an introduction situating Fielding`s works in their critical...

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen`s plays includes A Doll`s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master...

This fully annotated and modernized collection of plays - including Every Man in his Humour, Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair - represents the full range and complexity of Jonson`s art as a...

For this Oxford World`s Classics edition, an eminent Joyce scholar has written an Introduction and notes, which together provide a comprehensive and illuminating appreciation of Joyce`s...

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats`s poetry and...

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