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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
$17.95 AUD
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
The Koran by A.J. Arberry
$28.95 AUD
Category: Spirituality/Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Koran is a book apart, not only as Holy Scripture for Muslims, but as the supreme classic of Arabic literature. In its 114 Suras, or chapters, it comprises the total of revelations believed to have been communicated to the prophet Muhammad as a final expression of God's will and purpose for man. The ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant te ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers * a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings * on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions, and muc ...Show more
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of her short fiction ever printed. In addition to her pioneering masterpiece, 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' (1890), which draws on ...Show more
Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music. In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to changes with ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind ...' Discovered on the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff is rescued by Mr Earnshaw and taken to the remote Yorkshire farmhouse of Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine rapidly forms a passionate attachment to him, but when Catherine's brother t ...Show more