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`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!'
A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-04-01
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Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchman, Passepartout, and then with a ravishing Indian beauty, Aouda....
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OUP Oxford
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1999-03-25
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`For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious.'
Willa Cather's second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells the story...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-03-04
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`For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious.'
Willa Cather's second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells the story...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-03-04
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Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-03-04
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Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus.
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Oxford Paperbacks
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1999-02-18
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`I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels.
Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-02-11
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This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-02-04
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The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world's greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship.The action takes place in the...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-01-28
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Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer.
Through the medium of an exciting adventure...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-01-21
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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain't no matter.
So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in America's...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-01-21
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Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-11-26
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Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-11-26
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'The finest translation in and for our time'
(Kevin Crossley-Holland)
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-11-05
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Carmen, Mérimée's classic tale of passion and power, provided the inspiration for one of the world's most enduringly popular operas, and numerous films. LikeCarmen, the other stories in this book, including Mateo Falcone, The Etruscan Vase, and The Venus of Ille,...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-10-15
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`This time the fiction is founded upon facts' stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status of women, and here Collins questions the deeply inequitable marriage...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-10-01
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'You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!'
First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of the time alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes....
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OUP Oxford
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1998-10-01
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When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-10-01
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When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of `proper' womanly behaviour. Her love is legitimized when Dorriforth is released from his vows, but she...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-09-10
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Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-09-10
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