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A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of A Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement fr ...Show more
Chance - A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
A remarkable book, the story of Flora De Barral, daughter of the Great De Barral, a monumental swindler, and her love for the sea captain who married her. Marlow tells the story in his usual quiet manner which is so dramatic under the quiet, and shows Chance the master hand directing and interfering at ...Show more
Classic Horror Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Roger Luckhurst (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft develope ...Show more
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Heather Glen (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished examples of the genre. The heart of this collection is Gaskell's novella Cousin Phillis, a lyrical masterpiece that d ...Show more
Memoirs from the House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pou ...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
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