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On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'can we doubt ...that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length o ...Show more
Pierre et Jean (English) by Guy de Maupassant; Julie Mead (Translator); Robert Lethbridge
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
- La bibliographie de l'auteur - Enum ration de ses principales oeuvres - M. Roland, ancien bijoutier parisien, a d m nag d s qu'il a pu avec sa femme au Havre, par amour inconditionnel de la mer. Apr s leurs tudes Paris, o Pierre - l'a n - a successivement essay plusieurs cursus, avant d'obtenir la m ...Show more
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles; Peter W. Sinnema (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This is another amazing book by scotish author Samuel Smiles, whose books inspired authors such as Orison Swett Marden, Wallace Wattles and several others of the New Thought Movement. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), included in this collection, promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused larg ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had "assembled as many detestable people as it is possible t ...Show more
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unres ...Show more
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable ...Show more
The Tempest (Oxford World Classics) The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623, and is now generally seen ...Show more