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Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.' Anna Sewell's famous 'Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling novels in English. It was written not for children, but to expose and prevent cruelty to horses, and is a classic of ...Show more
Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold by ARNOLD MATTHEW
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Culture and Anarchy is one of the central texts of the western intellectual tradition and has helped to shape thinking about the tasks and requirements of culture and civil society. The book is particularly relevant now, however, because it articulates many issues about culture and cultural politics tha ...Show more
Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito by Plato
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
These new translations present Plato's remarkable dramatization of the momentous events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 399 BC, on charges of irreligion and corrupting the young. The Euthyphro, Defence of Socrates, and Crito form a dramatic and thematic sequence, raising fundamental questions abou ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.' Introspective and dreamy, Arthur Clennam returns to England from many years abroad to find a people gripped in their self-made social and mental prisons. ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook of philosophical reflections, written by a Roman emperor probably on military campaign in Germany. In short, ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.' North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsou ...Show more
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto; Guido Waldman (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Estratto: ...avverra che poi si deggia morire, allora il minor mal s'elleggia. - 85 Non credo che quest'ultime parole potesse esprimer si, che fosse inteso; e fini come il debol lume suole, cui cera manchi od altro in che sia acceso. Chi potra dire a pien come si duole, poi che si vede pallido e disteso ...Show more
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 by Brian Cummings
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'In the midst of life we are in death' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also hi ...Show more
The Tale of Sinuhe Egyptian Poems by PARKINSON R B (TRANS & ED)
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Category: No Category | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). The book features The Tale of Sinuhe, acclaimed as the masterpiece of Egyptian poetry, which tells of a ...Show more
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