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Oxford world's classics volume 21
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xiv, 298 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2003.
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lv, 161 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
Description
"Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humour that characterized the genre." "There is death in Alcestis, which explores the marital relationship of Alcestis and Admetus with pathos and grim humour,...
46) Germinal
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English
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Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all....
50) Daniel Deronda
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English
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"A revealing portrait of the hypocrisy and superficiality of high society, George Eliot's final novel also offers a rare contemporary view of Jewish life in Victorian Britain. Daniel Deronda traces the intertwined lives of two markedly different characters: spirited, selfish Gwendolen Harleth, who maintains her social position and secures her family's future by entering a loveless and increasingly destructive marriage; and compassionate Daniel, whose...
52) Shirley
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English
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Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionate depiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations. Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert's brother, an impoverished tutor. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal...
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Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 368 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
Description
Wilde's drama combines epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. This collection of his plays includes 'Lady Windermere's Fan', 'Salome', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'An Ideal Husband' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest'.
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Pub. Date
2008.
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xxxiv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
This sourcebook provides a complete history of Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with the main heroes and heroines, from Jason and Perseus to Heracles and Helen of Troy. Robin Hard's accessible and fluent translation is supplemented by comprehensive notes, a map and full genealogical tables. The introduction gives a detailed account of the Library's sources and situates...
58) The major works
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Pub. Date
2008.
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xxxii, 752 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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Offers a collection of Wordsworth's poetry and prose, including all his major poems and selections from his letters, prefaces, and essays.
59) The marble faun
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English
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The fragility -- and the durability -- of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the 'Marble Faun', Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made "The Marble Faun" a favorite...
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