Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection – serie
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War and Peace
Av Leo Tolstoy
Inbunden, 2017
241 kr
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I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it?Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French …
Crime and Punishment
(OWC Hardback)
Av Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sarah J. Young
Inbunden, 2017
239 kr
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'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above …
Anna Karenina
Av Leo Tolstoy
Inbunden, 2017
253 kr
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Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and …
The Poetic Edda
Inbunden, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
227 kr
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She sees, coming up a second time,earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,over the mountain hunting fish.After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The …
Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882
Av Queen Victoria, Margaret Homans m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
215 kr
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'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.'Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of her life. Originally intended for private circulation, later expanded to appeal to a wider …
Scouting for Boys
A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
Av Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer
Inbunden, 2018
218 kr
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'A scout must always be prepared at any moment to do his duty, and to face danger in order to help his fellow-men.'A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys (1908) …
Frankenstein
or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nick Groom
Inbunden, 2018
231 kr
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By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...'Frankenstein is the most …
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories
Inbunden, 2018
214 kr
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Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle...Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror than Arthur Machen. In the final decade of the nineteenth century, the Welsh writer produced a seminal …
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales
Av Edgar Allan Poe, David Van Leer
Inbunden, 2018
187 kr
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Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, …
The Mabinogion
Inbunden, 2018
215 kr
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Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever seen.Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history -- these …
The Odyssey
Av Homer
Inbunden, 2026
215 kr
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'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh- blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea'Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are …
Collected Ghost Stories
(OWC Hardback)
Inbunden, 2017
218 kr
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'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...'Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge. His classic …
The Iliad
Av Homer
Inbunden, 2026
215 kr
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'War, the bringer of tears...'War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy, sparked by a quarrel between the leader of the Greek army and its …
The Odyssey
Av Homer
Häftad, 2018
118 kr
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'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh- blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea.'Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are …
The Origins of Science Fiction
Av Michael Newton, Michael Newton
Inbunden, 2022
215 kr
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'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury?', The Machine …
A Christmas Carol
and Other Christmas Stories
Av Charles Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Inbunden, 2018
215 kr
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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?'Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has …
The Collected Peter Pan
Av J. M. Barrie, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Inbunden, 2022
215 kr
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'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the …
The Natural History of Selborne
Inbunden, 2022
166 kr
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'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.'Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing …
The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories
Av H. G. Wells
Inbunden, 2026
239 kr
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'Very thin indeed is the curtain between us and the unknown'The short stories of H. G. Wells are about many things, but they are nearly always about contact between the extraordinary and the everyday. There are few mighty statesmen or square-jawed heroes in his writing—it's a junior teaching …
Poetry of the Second World War
An Anthology
Inbunden, 2024
190 kr
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The Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry. The changes that arose were masked for some time by the enormous power and shock of the conflict itself, and by the restrictions on poetry publishing consequent on paper rationing and the general business of wartime. This …
Sense and Sensibility
Inbunden, 2017
190 kr
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"Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet."For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a …
Vampire Tales
Av Nick Groom
Inbunden, 2026
215 kr
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'The pang of the bite, the sudden spurting of blood, and the monstrous horror of the act.'This collection, edited by Nick Groom, explores the extraordinary variety and range of the vampire in English literature prior to the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897): it includes classical and …
The Complete Fairy Tales
Inbunden, 2018
222 kr
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'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!'Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present …
Snow White and Other Tales
Av Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Joyce Crick
Inbunden, 2019
190 kr
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'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...'The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age …
