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  The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

  by Henry James

  Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eerily equivocal. This new edition includes three rarely reprinted ghost stories from the 1890s, "Sir Edmund Orme,"... (more)
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  Metamorphoses

  by Ovid

  Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and... (more)
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  Sartor Resartus

  by Thomas Carlyle

  Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world, and the large questions of faith and understanding. This is the first edition to present the novel as it originally appeared, with indications of the changes... (more)
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  The Bible with Apocrypha (Authorized King James Version)

  The complete Authorized King James version of the Bible and the Apocrypha - The Apocrypha refer to texts which are left out of officially sanctioned versions ('canon') of the Bible. The term means 'things hidden away,' which implies secret or esoteric literature. However, none of these texts were ever considered secret.In some Protestant Bibles, they are placed between the New and Old Testament. In the... (more)
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  Anna Karenina

  by Leo Tolstoy

  Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина; Russian pronunciation: <ˈanə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə>) (sometimes Anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in... (more)
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  The Nature of the Gods (Oxford World's Classics)

  by Cicero, P. G. Walsh

  Cicero's philosophical works are exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, and partly because of the light they cast on the intellectual life of first-century Rome. The Nature of the Gods is a central document in this area, for it presents a detailed account of the theologies of... (more)
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  The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

  by Samuel Johnson

  Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies. This volume celebrates Johnson's astonishing talent by selecting widely across the full range of his work. It includes "London" and "The Vanity of... (more)
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  Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  First published in 1719, it is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. It is believed his story is based on the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra."
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  The Bible (Authorized King James Version)

  The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Holy Bible begun in 1604 and completed in 1611 by the Church of England.<3> Printed by the King's Printer, Robert Barker,<4> the first edition included schedules unique to the Church of England; for example, a lectionary for morning and evening prayer.<5> This was the third such official translation into English; the... (more)
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  A Journal of the Plague Year

  Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrances, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London the Last Great Visitation in 1665

  by Daniel Defoe

  In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe vividly chronicles the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed — the streets and alleyways deserted, the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors, the dead-carts on their way to the pits — and encounter the horrified citizens of the city, as... (more)
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  The History of the English People 1000-1154 (Oxford World's Classics)

  by Henry

  Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the victory of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, and the establishment of Norman rule. His accounts of the kings who reigned during his lifetime--William II, Henry I, and Stephen--contain unique descriptions of people... (more)
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  Selected Poems

  by Paul Verlaine

  Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not only for his exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites, with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music of poetry, and an inventive approach to its technique. This bilingual edition provides the most comprehensive selection of his... (more)
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  Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895

  by Anton Chekhov

  Impressionistic and bold, the nine stories in this collection frame the middle period of Chekhov's career. Exploring both complicated and intense emotions, Chekhov presents a world without simple answers or universal truths. "Ward No. 6" is a savage indictment of the medical profession. "The Black Monk," the story of a scholar who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity. "A Woman's... (more)
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  Five Plays

  Ivanov/ The Seagull/ Uncle Vanya/ The Three Sisters/ The Cherry Orchard

  by Anton Chekhov

  Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative Oxford Chekhov, in Ronald Hingley's acclaimed translation. Hingley has also written an introduction specifically for this volume in which he provides a detailed history of Chekhov's involvement in the... (more)
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  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  This revised volume follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of 1934.
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  On Liberty

  and Other Essays

  by John Stuart Mill, George M. Gould

  This edition contains four essays--"On Liberty," "Utilitarianism," "Considerations on Representative Government," and "The Subjection of Women"--never before presented in one volume. Contrary to the muddled eclectic of traditional interpretations, Mill emerges as a consistent and strikingly modern thinker, no less ambitious than Marx.
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  The Monk

  by Matthew G. Lewis

  The Monk is a Gothic novel that was published in 1796 by M.G. Lewis. Lewis was only 19 years old at the time and wrote it in just ten weeks.
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  Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing (Oxford World's Classics)

  by James Joyce

  A unique anthology of Joyce's non-fictional writings, this volume addresses diverse issues such as aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history, English literature and Empire. The collection includes newspaper articles, reviews, lectures and essays, and covers 40 years of Joyce's life. These pieces also clarify and illuminate the transformations in Joyce's fiction, from Dubliners and... (more)
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  The Anglo-Saxon World

  by Kevin Crossley-Holland

  The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words „Ÿ their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems. Most of the greatest surviving poems are printed here in their entirety: the reader will find the whole of Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, and the haunting elegiac poems. Here is a word picture of a people who came to these islands as pagans,... (more)
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  The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata: The Massacre at Night (Oxford World's Classics)

  The tenth book of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata, the Sauptikaparvan is saturated in the imagery of the end of the world and the sacrifice of battle. The first complete English translation for over a century and the first ever in verse, this edition is designed to provide an accessible introduction and entry point to one of the greatest works of Indian and world literature.