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Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
$20.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus a ...Show more
Henry V by William Shakespeare; Gary Taylor (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Though a staple in high school English classes, Julius Caesar is not a simple play. Seemingly irreconcilable forces are at work: fate and free will, the changeableness and stubbornness of ambitious men, the demands of public service and the desire for private gain. Drawn from history as recorded by Plut ...Show more
Henry V, War Criminal? - And Other Shakespeare Puzzles by John Sutherland; Karl-Heinz Engel; Stephen Orgel (Introduction by)
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Shakespeare loves loose ends; Shakespeare also loves red herrings.'Stephen OrgelLoose ends and red herrings are the stuff of detective fiction, and under the scrutiny of master sleuths John Sutherland and Cedric Watts Shakespeare's plays reveal themselves to be as full of mysteries as any Agatha Christ ...Show more
John Clare - Major Works by John Clare
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
After years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was generally not appreciated by his contemporaries, and his later mental instability further contributed to his l ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; Patricia Ingham (Notes by, Editor, Introduction by)
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?'Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead, and their r ...Show more
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
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Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Among the most well-loved of William Shakespeare's history plays, Henry V is the gripping conclusion to the story of young 'Prince Hal' begun in Henry IV, edited by A.R. Humphreys with an introduction by Ann Kaegi. 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Sha ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels ...Show more
Ovid - The Love Poems by A. D. Melville (Translator); E. J. Kenney (Introduction by); Ovid
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Category: Latin Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Pere Goriot by Honoré de Balzac; A. J. Krailsheimer (Translator)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Pere Goriot, by Honore de Balzac, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of ...Show more
Plautus - Four Comedies - The Braggart Soldier; the Brothers Menaechmus; the Haunted House; the Pot of Gold by Plautus
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Category: Latin Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first professional playwright in history, Plautus was the creator of racy, raucous, hilarious plays that will make modern audiences laugh as much as the first Romans did. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and Professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, makin ...Show more
Plays and Petersburg Tales - Petersburg Tales; Marriage; the Government Inspector by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol; Christopher English (Editor, Translator); Richard Peace (Introduction by)
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Category: Drama | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk benea ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now r ...Show more